Phthinia zaitzevi Plassmann, 1990**

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Phthinia zaitzevi Plassmann, 1990**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: Kartesh, biological station; decimalLatitude: 66.337; decimalLongitude: 33.652; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1996-7-30 /8-1; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Distribution

European. Extremely rare species (Fig. 9) which was known from the type locality in Sweden ( Plassmann 1990) and later reported from Czech republic ( Chandler 2004). However, the record from Czech republic is erroneous ( Ševčík and Košel 2009). New to Russia and the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

The Karelian specimen was collected in Vaccinium myrtillus type sprucedominated forest. Immature stages are unknown. Generally, Phthinia larvae develop in webs on the surface of fungal mycelium and moulds in rotten wood. The larvae pupate in silky cocoon ( Plachter 1979).

Notes

Plassmann's original figure of male genitalia is sketchy, however the study of the holotype (Sweden, Abisko) confirmed identity of Karelian and Swedish speciemens.