Camptochaeta consimilis (Holmgren, 1869)

Menzel, Frank, Gammelmo, Oivind, Olsen, Kjell Magne & Koehler, Arne, 2020, The Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of Norway - Part I: species records published until December 2019, with an updated checklist, ZooKeys 957, pp. 17-104 : 17

Camptochaeta consimilis (Holmgren, 1869)

Synonym.

= glacialis ( Rübsaamen, 1898)

Literature.

Faunistics: Holmgren (1869): 6, 16, 54 [as Sciara consimilis ]; Edwards (1922): 198; Edwards (1924): 164 [both as Sciara praecox ; misidentification]; Lengersdorf (1930a): 55 [as Sciara consimilis and Sciara ecalcarata ; misidentification]; Lengersdorf (1930c): 52 [as Sciara ecalcarata sensu Lengersdorf; misidentification, and Sciara glacialis Rübsamer; recte Rübsaamen]; Edwards (1935): 534; Bertram and Lack (1938): 51 [both as Sciara consimilis ]; Soot-Ryen (1942): 78 [as Neosciara glacialis ]; Tuomikoski (1967): 46 [as Corynoptera consimilis ]; Hippa and Vilkamaa (1994): 12 [as Camptochaeta consimilis ]; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 197 [as Camptochaeta consimilis ] and 198 [as Camptochaeta consimilis in the discussion of Camptochaeta delicata ]; Coulson and Refseth (2004): 102; Komarova et al. (2007): 6; Coulson (2008): 161; Coulson (2013): 153; Mohrig et al. (2013): 174 [all as Camptochaeta consimilis ]. Taxonomy: Hippa and Vilkamaa (1994): 12; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 197; Mohrig et al. (2013): 174 [all as Camptochaeta consimilis ].

Localities.

• Norway; without further locality details (= ‘Norway’) • Finnmark; Sør-Varanger, Bugøyfjord (= ‘Buköyfjord’) •? Troms; Tromsø (= ‘Tromsø’).

• Svalbard; Bjørnøya (= 'Beeren Eiland’; = 'Beeren Island’; = 'Bear Island’) • Bjørnøya, Gravodden [grave point (graveyard)] at the N coast (= 'Bear Island, Gravodden’) • Bjørnøya, Haussvatnet in the N part of island (= 'Bear Island, Hausvatnet’) • Bjørnøya, Kvalrossbukta [formerly ‘Hvalrosbugten’] at the SE side of island (= 'Bear Island, Walrus Bay, S.E.') • Bjørnøya, Laksvatnet in the N part of island (= 'Bear Island, Laksvatnet’) • Bjørnøya, near the Steelva at the Laksvatnet in the N part of island (= 'bei Steelva’, am Laksvatnet (B.)') • Bjørnøya, Røyevatnet in the SW part of island (= 'Bear Island, Röyevatnet’) • Spitsbergen, Adventdalen near Adventfjorden at the W coast (= 'Spitzbergen, Adventdalen’; = ‘Adventdalen’) • Spitsbergen, Adventfjorden at the W coast (= 'in Spetsbergia ad Advent Bay’; = 'Spetsbergia ad Advent Bay’ [Spitzbergen, bei der Advent Bay]'; = 'Spitsbergen, near Advent Bay’; = 'Spitzbergen, Advent Bay’) • Spitsbergen, Albert I Land, Cape Flathuken on the Vasahalvøya (= 'Spitzbergen, Flathuken’; = ‘Flathuken’) • Spitsbergen, Albert I Land, strait Sørgattet between Reuschhalvøya and Danskøya (= ‘Sørgattet’; = ‘Sörgatt’) • Spitsbergen, Billefjorden between Dickson Land and Bünsow Land (= 'head of Billefjorden [Klaas Billen Bay]') • Spitsbergen, Bünsow Land, Brucebyen 0.5 km S of Kapp Napier (= 'Spitsbergen, Bruce City, head of Klaas Billen Bay’; = 'Brucebyen [Bruce City]') • Spitsbergen, Grønfjorden, Barentsburg (= ‘Barentsburg’; = 'bei Barentsburg (S.)') • Spitsbergen, Haakon VII Land, Liefdefjorden (= 'N. Spitsbergen, Liefde Bay’) • Spitsbergen, Haakon VII Land at the NW coast, S side of Reinsdyrflya (= 'middle of S. side of Reindeer Peninsula’; = 'middle of S. side of Reinsdyrflya [Reindeer Peninsula]') • Spitsbergen, Hiorthhamn [former mining settlement] at the E side of Adventfjorden (= 'Hiorthhamn (S.), bei Residensen’) • Spitsbergen, Kobbefjorden at the NW coast near the Danskøya (= 'in Spetsbergia ad Kobbebay’; = 'Kobbefjorden [Kobbebay]'; = ‘Kobbebay’) • Spitsbergen, Longyearbyen (= 'Spitzbergen, Longyearbyen’; = 'Longyearbyen auf Spitzbergen’; = ‘Longyearbyen’) • Spitsbergen, Nordenskiöld Land, Helvetiadalen between the mountains Helvetiafjellet and Artowskifjellet N of Adventdalen (= 'front face of Helvetiadalen’) • Spitsbergen, Nordenskiöld Land, Mälardalen at the N side of the mouth of Adventelva (= ‘Mælardalen’) • Spitsbergen, Ny-Ålesund (= 'Spitsbergen, Ny Ålesund’) • Spitsbergen, Ny-Friesland, Dirksbukta at the S side of the Dirksodden (= 'N. Spitsbergen, Albert Dirkses Bay’; = 'Dirksbukta [Albert Dirkses Bay]') • Spitsbergen, S coast of Kongsfjorden along the N side of Brøggerhalvøya, W of Ny-Ålesund [= 'NW Spitsbergen, South cost Königsfjord, W Ny Ålesund’] • Spitsbergen, Sassen-Bünsow Land, Sassendalen (= ‘Sassendalen’) • Spitsbergen, Wijdefjorden (= 'N. Spitsbergen, Wijde Bay’; = 'Wijdefjorden [Wijde Bay]') • Spitsbergen, without further locality details (= ‘Spetsbergen’; = ‘Spitzbergen’; = ‘Spitsbergen’).

Taxonomic note.

The female holotype of Sciara glacialis Rübsaamen was studied by the senior author and identified as a junior synonym to Camptochaeta consimilis (Holmgren). More detailed information will be presented in a separate publication about the Sciara species described by Rübsaamen (1898).

Ecological note.

Bird cliffs; in mosses, lichens and Salix plants; on Cerastium alpinum , Salix polaris and Cassiope ; on shingly raised beaches with Dryas ; among stones; on bare rocks (all Svalbard records). Phenology: Jun.-Aug.