Discobola parvispinula (Alexander, 1947)

Polevoi, Alexei, Ruokolainen, Anna & Shorohova, Ekaterina, 2018, Eleven remarkable Diptera species, emerged from fallen aspens in Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 22175-22175 : 22175

Discobola parvispinula (Alexander, 1947)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; sex: 1 male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Karelia; locality: Kivach Nature Reserve ; verbatimLatitude: 62.281; verbatimLongitude: 33.967; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Trunk emergence trap; eventDate: 2016-07-21 /08-19; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Diagnosis

Distinguished from other Discobola by more heavily marked wings and the structure of the male genitalia (Fig. 3), see also ( Starý 1974, fig. 5, 6).

Distribution

Palaearctic ( Oosterbroek 2017). Karelian record is the northernmost one. Closest locations are in Poland, Lithuania and the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia.

Ecology

Poorly known, though associations with dead wood and wood-destroying fungi were reported ( Ševčík 2006, Wiedenska 2007). This species was collected from a windthrown aspen, colonised by 15 species of macrofungi (Table 1).