Mycomya (Mycomya) shewelli Vaeisaenen , 1984***

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

Mycomya (Mycomya) shewelli Vaeisaenen, 1984***

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0320 ; recordedBy: Jari Ilmonen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; verbatimLocality: Espoo, Matalajärvi, SW shore; verbatimElevation: 23 m; decimalLatitude: 60.247; decimalLongitude: 24.686; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-21 /8-23; habitat: swampy lake shore; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. Mycomya shewelli (Fig. 7) was described from the Nearctic region (USA: Michigan, Canada: North West Territories, Manitoba, Väisänen 1984), with no previous records from the Palaearctic region. New for the European fauna.

Ecology

Poorly known species, immature stages are unknown. The Finnish collecting site is a diverse black alder ( Alnus glutinosa ) swamp in a lake shore (Espoo, South Finland).