Pseudexechia parallela (Edwards, 1925)*

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

Pseudexechia parallela (Edwards, 1925)*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0315 ; recordedBy: J. Ilmonen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Espoo; locality: Matalajaervi ; decimalLatitude: 60.247; decimalLongitude: 24.687; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-23/10-20; habitat: swampy lake shore; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. Widely distributed in Europe, in Fennoscandia known from Sweden ( Kjaerandsen 2009). The specimen recorded from Russian Karelia ( Polevoi 2000) in fact belongs to Pseudexechia pectinacea Ostroverkhova. Most likely the species is quite rare in Northern Europe, its range seems to be confined to nemoral - hemiboreal vegetation zones (cf. Kjaerandsen 2009). New for Finland, here reported from the hemiboreal vegetation zone.

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown, but several British collecting localities are wetlands ( Kjaerandsen 2009). In Finland the species was trapped from a swampy lake shore ( Matalajärvi).