Monoclona silvatica Zaitzev, 1983*

Jakovlev, Jevgeni, Salmela, Jukka, Polevoi, Alexei, Penttinen, Jouni & Vartija, Noora-Annukka, 2014, Recent noteworthy findings of fungus gnats from Finland and northwestern Russia (Diptera: Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Bolitophilidae and Mycetophilidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1068-1068 : 1068

Monoclona silvatica Zaitzev, 1983*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Karelia ladogensis; municipality: Parikkala; locality: Kasinniemi ; decimalLatitude: 61.565; decimalLongitude: 29.558; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Penttinen; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2008-7-22/9-1; habitat: old-growth forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ

Distribution

Palaearctic. The species is known from the Far East and European parts of Russia ( Zaitzev 1994), Central Europe ( Chandler 2004) and Norway ( Kjaerandsen and Jordal 2007). New for Finland, Finnish sampling sites lie in the south boreal zone.

Ecology

Larvae are associated with wood-decaying fungi ( Zaitzev 1994). Finnish collecting sites are herb-rich forests with high amounts of decaying deciduous trees and an old-growth boreal forest.

Conservation

Red-listed in Norway (DD, Anonymous 2010).