Sceptonia flavipuncta Edwards, 1925*

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

Sceptonia flavipuncta Edwards, 1925*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Karelia ladogensis; municipality: Parikkala; locality: Siikalahti ; decimalLatitude: 61.556; decimalLongitude: 29.558; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Penttinen; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2008-7-22/9-1; habitat: old-growth forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ

Distribution

European. Described from Great Britain ( Edwards 1925), later recorded from many countries in western and southern Europe ( Chandler 2004). In Fennoscandia recorded from Russian Karelia ( Polevoi et al. 2005), Sweden and Norway ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007, Kjaerandsen 2012). Here formally reported as new for Finland.

Ecology

The only Finnish sampling locality is a herb-rich forest. Reared from Rhodocybe gemina in Czech Republic ( Ševčík 2010).

Conservation

Included in the Red List of Finnish species (NT, Penttinen et al. 2010).