Macrorrhyncha rostrata ( Zetterstedt, 1851 )

Kolcsár, Levente-Péter & Salmela, Jukka, 2017, New taxonomic and faunistic records of fungus gnats (Insecta, Diptera) from Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, Check List 13 (5), pp. 533-559 : 539

Macrorrhyncha rostrata ( Zetterstedt, 1851)

Material examined. Figure 1. Romania: Dobrești, Bucegi Mt., Saua Dichiului, spruce forest, 1575 m a.s.l., 45.3736° N, 025.4391° E, 26 July 2014, Keresztes L. leg., 1 male, DIPT-JS-2014-0451; Cluj-Napoca, Mikó Garden, unused old botanical garden with old trees, 373 m a.s.l., 46.7635° N, 023.5804° E, 15 September 2014 –20 Octo- ber 2014, Kolcsár L.-P. leg., 1 male, DIPT-JS-2016-0228.

A rather widespread European species, known from Central and Northern Europe and Russia ( Chandler 2013), here reported for the first time from Romania. This spe- cies is, however, quite rare, being associated with pristine forests in Fennoscandia ( Kjaerandsen and Chandler 2011, Westling 2015); it is Red-Listed in Finland ( Penttinen et al. 2010) and Sweden ( Westling 2015). Immature stages are unknown, but most likely larvae of the genus dwell in decaying wood ( Hutson et al. 1980).