Mycetophila forcipata Lundstroem , 1913**

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

Mycetophila forcipata Lundstroem, 1913**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Leningrad province; verbatimLocality: Voznesenje, 1 km SE of Gimreka; decimalLatitude: 61.151; decimalLongitude: 35.642; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2008-8-27/10-1; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Tietäväinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: 5 km N of Tolvojarvi; decimalLatitude: 62.318; decimalLongitude: 31.436; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1999-6-11/22; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Tietäväinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: 5 km N of Tolvojarvi; decimalLatitude: 62.318; decimalLongitude: 31.436; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1999-8-17/26; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Distribution

Palaearctic. Widely distributed in Europe and East Palaearctic ( Chandler 2004, Zaitzev 2003). In Fennoscandia known from Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007), Finland and Murmansk Province ( Jakovlev and Penttinen 2007, Polevoi 2010). New to the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

Karelian specimens were collected in Vaccinium myrtillus type coniferous forests, the Finnish sampling sites are chiefly old-growth coniferous forest, but also burnt clear cuts with some retained trees. Larvae live in bracket fungi, most rearing records are from Piptoporus betulinus ( Jakovlev 1994, Ševčík 2010).