Stigmatomeria obscura (Winnertz, 1864)

Salmela, Jukka & Kaunisto, Kari M, 2015, Additions to the list of Finnish Bibionomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera), Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 5228-5228 : 5228

Stigmatomeria obscura (Winnertz, 1864)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2015-0183 ; recordedBy: J. Kahanpää; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; verbatimLocality: Enontekiö, Kilpisjärvi, Saana; verbatimLatitude: 69.0480; verbatimLongitude: 20.8072; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: sweep net; eventDate: 2014-7-1; habitat: road side, mountain birch forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European, but likely to have wide Palaearctic range ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007b). The species was described from Germany ( Winnertz 1864), but was later tentatively considered as a junior synonym of S. crassicornis (Stannius) by Tuomikoski ( Tuomikoski 1966). However, status of S. obscura as a valid species was recently reinstated (), and the species is known to occur in Germany, Sweden ( Skåne) ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007b) and Norway (Kongsvoll) ( Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008). The Finnish locality is in NW Lapland, Kilpisjärvi, belonging to the Caledonian mountain range.

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown. The Finnish locality was a road-side in a mountain birch forest, close to Saana fell.