Mycetophila gemerensis Sevcik & Kurina, 2011

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

Mycetophila gemerensis Sevcik & Kurina, 2011

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0189 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality: Rovaniemi, Savioja; verbatimLatitude: 66.2251; verbatimLongitude: 25.3668; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-5-24 /6-28; habitat: headwater stream, deciduous herb-rich forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. The species (Fig. 12a, c) was recently described from the Gemer region in the central part of Slovakia ( Ševčík and Kurina 2011a). No other records are available. New for the Fennoscandian fauna.

Ecology

The holotype male was collected from a "spring area in a young spruce forest, 1230 m (above sea level)" Ševčík and Kurina 2011b). Finnish locality is a herb-rich riparian forest, dominated by deciduous trees.

Taxon discussion

The species is quite close to M. lastovkai Caspers, 1984 (Fig. 12b, d), a species that has been in the Nordic region reported from Sweden, Norway and Denmark ( Kjaerandsen 2015). Nordic material of M. lastovkai should be re-examined in order to check the potential confusion with M. gemerensis .