Mycetophila devioides Bechev, 1988*

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1068

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scientific name

Mycetophila devioides Bechev, 1988*
status

 

Mycetophila devioides Bechev, 1988*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Tietäväinen et al.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Karelia borealis; verbatimLocality: Ilomantsi, Kotavaara; decimalLatitude: 63.029; decimalLongitude: 31.377; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1997-9-15/29; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP GoogleMaps

Distribution

European. The species was described from Bulgaria ( Bechev 1988) and has been later recorded only from Slovakia ( Chandler 2004) and Ukraine ( Zaitzev 2003). No previous findings from the Nordic region, new for Finland.

Ecology

Collected in Vaccinium myrtillus type spruce dominated forest. Immature stages are unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mycetophilidae

Genus

Mycetophila