Greenomyia mongolica Lastovka & Matile, 1974*

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

Greenomyia mongolica Lastovka & Matile, 1974*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Elina Peuhu; individualID: 1; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Herttoniemen kartanopuisto ; decimalLatitude: 60.190; decimalLongitude: 25.042; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: pit-fall trap inside a hollow lime tree (Tilia cordata); eventDate: 2006-7-6/7-19; habitat: old managed forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Elina Peuhu; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tuomarinkylae ; decimalLatitude: 60.262; decimalLongitude: 24.966; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: bowl window trap; eventDate: 2006-7-4/7-18; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 11; sex: 7 males, 4 females; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tuomarinkylae ; decimalLatitude: 60.262; decimalLongitude: 24.966; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-6-5/7-4; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 33; sex: 21 males, 12 females; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tuomarinkylae ; decimalLatitude: 60.262; decimalLongitude: 24.966; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-7-5/7-20; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 14; sex: 10 males, 4 females; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tuomarinkylae ; decimalLatitude: 60.262; decimalLongitude: 24.966; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-7-5/7-20; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 17; sex: 8 males, 9 females; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tuomarinkylae ; decimalLatitude: 60.262; decimalLongitude: 24.966; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-7-5/7-20; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 8; sex: 4 males, 4 females; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tuomarinkylae ; decimalLatitude: 60.262; decimalLongitude: 24.966; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-7-5/7-20; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Distribution

Palaearctic. Greenomyia mongolica (Fig. 19) is known from Mongolia ( Laštovka and Matile 1974), Russia ( Zaitzev 1994), Estonia, southern and central Europe ( Chandler 2004, as Greenomyia theresae Matile, 2002, Kurina et al. 2011), Spain ( Chandler and Camaño Portela 2011) and Britain ( Chandler 2008). In Nordic countries collected from the southern parts of Sweden and Norway ( Soli et al. 2009, Anonymous 2010, Kurina et al. 2011). No previous findings from Finland.

Ecology

Larvae are saproxylic, apparently feeding on mycelia in decaying wood ( Zaitzev 1994). Finnish specimens were collected in wood-storage areas in the city parks of Helsinki. Interestingly, a related species, Greenomyia stackelbergi Zaitzev was also found only in semi-urban habitats in Norway and Sweden; in Sweden the larvae had probably developed in a garden compost in which fungal fruiting bodies were regularly discarded by the mycologist M. Karström ( Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008).