Mycomya (Coheromyia) branderi 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 (Coheromyia) branderi Vaeisaenen, 1984

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0333 ; recordedBy: Jari Ilmonen; individualCount: 10; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; verbatimLocality: Espoo, Matalajärvi; 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 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0280 ; recordedBy: Jari Ilmonen; individualCount: 12; sex: 10 males, 2 females; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; verbatimLocality: Espoo, Matalajärvi; decimalLatitude: 60.247; decimalLongitude: 24.686; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-23 /10-20; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Jaschhof; C. Jaschhof; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Karelia ladogensis; verbatimLocality: Parikkala, Siikalahti; decimalLatitude: 61.562; decimalLongitude: 29.599; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 2004-8-19; habitat: swampy forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Distribution

European. Very rare and poorly known species, so far recorded from South Finland, Denmark and Great Britain ( Väisänen 1984, Chandler 1992).

Ecology

Mycomya branderi is most likely associated with wetlands. The British records are from wetlands ( Chandler 1992) and two recent Finnish localities are a swampy lake shore (Espoo) and a birch/alder swamp forest on a lake shore (Parikkala). Immature stages are unknown.

Conservation

Red-listed in Finland (VU, Penttinen et al. 2010).