Brevicornu rosmellitum Chandler, 2001*

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

Brevicornu rosmellitum Chandler, 2001*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0038 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; T. Hietajärvi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio kuusamoensis; verbatimLocality: Salla, Kuntasjoki, Värriö Strict Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation: 320 m; decimalLatitude: 67.749; decimalLongitude: 29.617; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 2013-6-29 /7-29; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Holarctic. The species was described from England and Nearctic non-type material studied by Zaitzev ( Zaitzev 1988, as B. nigrofuscum , from USA and Canada) actually represents B. rosmellitum ( Chandler 2001). New for Finland.

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown. The British type specimens, five males, were taken from honey dew ( Chandler 2001). The Finnish collecting site is a headwater stream surrounded by old-growth boreal forest.