Sciophila spinifera Zaitzev, 1982

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

Sciophila spinifera Zaitzev, 1982

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0196 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Sodankylä, Pomokaira, Paistipuolet NE; verbatimLatitude: 67.834; verbatimLongitude: 26.270; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-6-1/6-29; habitat: intermediate rich spring fen; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0317 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Sodankylä, Pomokaira, Poksaselkä E; verbatimLatitude: 67.858; verbatimLongitude: 26.259; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-6-1/6-29; habitat: spring brook surrounded by old-growth spruce forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2015-0238 ; recordedBy: E. Rundgren; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia inariensis; verbatimLocality: Inari, Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area, Kielajoki; verbatimLatitude: 69.1464; verbatimLongitude: 26.2929; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-6-26/8-5; habitat: herb-rich swampy birch forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. In his original description, Zaitzev ( Zaitzev 1982) assigned S. spinifera (Fig. 8) as a Finnish species, the holotype specimen was collected by Richard Frey from a place named "Opariornia". There is, however, no such place in Finland, and later the holotype was interpreted as a Swedish specimen, collected from Övertorneå ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007b, misspelled by Zaitzev), on the Swedish side of the River Tornio between Finland and Sweden. In addition to Sweden, the species is known from southern Norway ( Økland and Zaitzev 1997) and Switzerland ( Chandler 1998).

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown, but S. spinifera is presumably a forest-dwelling species ( Økland and Zaitzev 1997). Finnish sampling sites are either old-growth, spruce-dominated moist forests (two sites) or a swampy birch forest.