Urytalpa macrocera (Edwards, 1913)*

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

Urytalpa macrocera (Edwards, 1913)*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia inarensis; municipality: Utsjoki; locality: Galddasjohka ; decimalLatitude: 69.860; decimalLongitude: 27.770; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-7-19 /8-27; habitat: subarctic stream valley; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia inarensis; municipality: Utsjoki; locality: Galddasjohka ; decimalLatitude: 69.861; decimalLongitude: 27.790; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-7-19 /8-27; habitat: subarctic stream valley; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Distribution

European, known only in northern Britain (Scotland and northern England), France, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2009). No former records from Finland.

Ecology

Finnish localities are two close lying trapping sites in a river valley surrounded by a strip of mountain birch forest in the northernmost Lapland (Fig. 5e). From Great Britain recorded from moist deciduous forest ( Falk and Chandler 2005). Immature stages are unknown.