Sciophila bicuspidata Zaitzev, 1982*

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

Sciophila bicuspidata Zaitzev, 1982*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0222 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality: Tornio, Rakanjänkkä; decimalLatitude: 65.890; decimalLongitude: 24.317; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-6-4/7-2; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0225 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality: Tornio, Rakanjänkkä; decimalLatitude: 65.890; decimalLongitude: 24.317; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-2/8-6; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. Described from North America, based on material collected from Canada (Quebec, British Columbia) and USA (Alaska) ( Zaitzev 1982b), also recently found from Greenland (G. Varkonyi, pers. comm.). In Europe the species has been found only in Norway ( Økland and Zaitzev 1997) and Russian Karelia ( Polevoi 2001a). New for Finland.

Ecology

The collecting site is a calcareous, open spring fen, ca. 100 m from a forest edge. Immature stages are unknown.