Mycetophila unguiculata Lundstroem , 1913**

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 unguiculata Lundstroem, 1913**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Leningrad province; verbatimLocality: Voznesenje, 1 km SE of Gimreka; decimalLatitude: 61.151; decimalLongitude: 35.642; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2008-4-23 /5-25; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Leningrad province; verbatimLocality: Voznesenje, 1 km SE of Gimreka; decimalLatitude: 61.151; decimalLongitude: 35.642; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2008-8-27 /10-1; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Distribution

Palaearctic. Scattered records from Europe and West Siberia ( Chandler 2004, Zaitzev 2003). In Fennoscandia known from Norway ( Gammelmo and Søli 2006) and Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). New to the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

The Karelian specimens were collected in secondary Vaccinium myrtillus type pinedominated forest. Immature stages are unknown.