Sciophila arizonensis 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 arizonensis Zaitzev, 1982

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0385 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality: Kemijärvi, Pyhä-Luosto National Park, Huttuoja; verbatimLatitude: 66.9983; verbatimLongitude: 27.0265; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-8-8 /9-19; habitat: rusty spring brook, pine mire, close to riparian forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. The description of the species (Fig. 6) was based on material collected from three Nearctic sites in Arizona, British Columbia and Ontario ( Zaitzev 1982). Later the species has been recorded from the Russian Far East ( Zaitzev 2006), France, Switzerland ( Chandler 2004) and the Czech Republic ( Ševčík 2005). New for the Fennoscandian fauna.

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown, but Sciophila larvae are fungivorous, living on the surfaces of agaric and polyporous fungi ( Ševčík 2010), rarely on Pezizales ( Jakovlev 2011). Finnish locality (Fig. 7) is a iron-rich spring-fed brook on an ecotone between a pine mire and a luxuriant riparian forest.