Brevicornu spathulatum ( Lundstroem , 1911)*

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

Brevicornu spathulatum ( Lundstroem, 1911)*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio aboënsis; municipality: Salo; locality: Roomunmaeki ; decimalLatitude: 60.324; decimalLongitude: 23.665; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Penttinen; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise; eventDate: 2009-8-15/9-15; habitat: seminatural herb-rich forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ

Distribution

Palaearctic. Described from Hungary (as Brachycampta spathulata , Lundström 1911), later recorded from Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic ( Chandler 2004) and from Altai Mountains, Western Siberia ( Zaitzev 2003). In the Nordic Region recorded from Sweden ( Kjaerandsen 2012). No former records from Finland.

Ecology

The Finnish sampling locality is a herb-rich forest. Immature stages are unknown.