Mycetophila biformis Maximova, 2002***

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

Mycetophila biformis Maximova, 2002***

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Tietäväinen et al.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: 5 km N of Tolvojarvi; decimalLatitude: 62.318; decimalLongitude: 31.436; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1999-6-22 /30; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0138 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.835; decimalLongitude: 29.454; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-10 /8-16; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Palaearctic. Described from West Siberia ( Maximova 2002), no other previous records were known. New to Europe, Finland and the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

The Karelian specimen was collected in Vaccinium myrtillus type sprucedominated forest. The Finnish sampling site is a headwater stream surrounded by old-growth boreal forest. Immature stages are unknown.

Taxon discussion

Mycetophila biformis Maximova, 2002 is a junior primary homonym of M. biformis Duret, 1992. A replacement name will be given by the author in the near future (Yu. Maximova, pers. comm.).