Porricondyla macrodon Jaschhof, 2013

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

Porricondyla macrodon Jaschhof, 2013

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0470 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality: Keminmaa, Kallinkangas; verbatimLatitude: 65.8173; verbatimLongitude: 24.4995; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-7-28/9-23; habitat: rich fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. The species was described recently from southern Sweden, Uppsala and Tyresta ( Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2013), no other records are available. The Finnish locality is in SW Lapland, middle boreal ecoregion.

Ecology

The holotype specimen was collected from an "open woodland with old oaks" ( Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2013). The Finnish sampling site is a rich fen, surrounded by young deciduous forest. Larvae of Porricondylinae midges are terrestrial mycelium feeders, living on detritus and dead wood ( Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2013).