Exechiopsis (Xenexechia) davatchii Matile, 1969**

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

Exechiopsis (Xenexechia) davatchii Matile, 1969**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: Shun'ga, Turastamozero; decimalLatitude: 62.56; decimalLongitude: 34.706; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-21/8-24; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Distribution

Palaearctic. Widespread in western Europe ( Chandler 2004) and has recently been recorded from Britain ( Chandler and Perry 2010). Scattered records from the Near East and East Russia ( Zaitzev 2003, Chandler 2004, Kurina and Ševčík 2006). In Fennoscandia recorded from South Finland ( Jakovlev et al. 2006) and Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). New to the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

The Karelian specimen was collected in Vaccinium myrtillus type pine dominated forest.