Lycoriella sativae (Johannsen, 1912)

Menzel, Frank, Gammelmo, Oivind, Olsen, Kjell Magne & Koehler, Arne, 2020, The Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of Norway - Part I: species records published until December 2019, with an updated checklist, ZooKeys 957, pp. 17-104 : 17

Lycoriella sativae (Johannsen, 1912)

Synonyms.

= agarici Loudon, 1978; = auberti ( Séguy, 1940); = brevipetiolata (Shaw, 1941); = castanescens (Lengersdorf, 1940); = difficilis (Frey, 1948) [preocc.]; = fucorum (Frey, 1948); = jeanneli ( Séguy, 1940); = kaiseri (Shaw, 1941); = paucisetulosa (Frey, 1948); = rufotincta Tuomikoski, 1959; = similans (Johannsen, 1925); = solispina (Hardy, 1956); = trifolii (Pettey, 1918).

Literature.

Faunistics: Soot-Ryen (1942): 77 [as Neosciara auripila ; misidentification]; Tuomikoski (1960): 88; Menzel et al. (1990): 342 [both as Lycoriella (Lycoriella) fucorum ]; Menzel and Müller (2011): 164 [as Lycoriella (Lycoriella) castanescens ]; Menzel et al. (2013): 292 [as Lycoriella (Lycoriella) sativae ]. Taxonomy: Tuomikoski (1960): 82, 88 [as Lycoriella (Lycoriella) fucorum ]; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 386 [as Lycoriella (Lycoriella) castanescens ]; Menzel et al. (2013): 292; Mohrig et al. (2013): 216 [both as Lycoriella (Lycoriella) sativae ]; Broadley et al. (2018): 216; Vilkamaa and Menzel (2019): 52 [both as Lycoriella sativae ].

Localities.

• Norway; without further locality details (= ‘Norwegen’; = ‘Norway’) • Finnmark; Porsanger, two localities on the Porsangerfjorden (= '2 Stellen am Porsangerfjord’) • Troms; Tromsø (= ‘Tromsø’) • Trøndelag; Levanger, Hestøya NW of Alstahaug, southern tip Måkeskjær (= ‘Måkeskjær’).

Ecological note.

In accumulations of seaweed on sea shores. Phenology: Aug.