Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) hispida (Winnertz, 1867)

Menzel, Frank, Gammelmo, Oivind, Olsen, Kjell Magne & Koehler, Arne, 2020, The Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of Norway - Part I: species records published until December 2019, with an updated checklist, ZooKeys 957, pp. 17-104 : 17

Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) hispida (Winnertz, 1867)

Literature.

Faunistics: Zetterstedt (1871): 3721 [as Sciara trochanterata ; in part misidentification]; Lengersdorf (1926b): 3 [as Sciara hispida ]; Lengersdorf (1930a): 49; Lengersdorf (1941): 48 [both as Sciara hispida under Sciara trochanterata ; misidentification]; Soot-Ryen (1942): 76 [in part as Lycoria trochanterata ; misidentification (only cited specimen from ‘Festningsstuen’)]. Taxonomy: Lengersdorf (1941): 48 [as Sciara hispida ]; Mohrig and Menzel (1997): 63; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 366 [both as Sciara hispida under Leptosciarella (Leptosciarella) rejecta ; misidentification].

Localities.

• Finnmark; Porsanger, farm Fæstningsstua near Lævnasjarvi W of Skoganvarre (= ‘Fæstningstuen’; = ‘Festningsstuen’) • Oslo; Oslo, Tøyen (= 'in Töien prope Christianiam’; = ‘Toiën’; = ‘Toien’) • Trøndelag; Meråker, NE of mountain Kølhaugan near the Swedish border [maybe a collecting place in Sweden: Jämtland, village Skalstugan close to the border with Norway] (= 'in Jemtlandia ad diversorium Skalstugan’; = ‘Skalstuga’).

Ecological note.

Habitats not specified. Phenology: Jun.-Aug.