Speolepta leptogaster (Winnetrz, 1863)

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

Speolepta leptogaster (Winnetrz, 1863)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Palmen, J.; individualCount: 1; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Savonia borealis; verbatimLocality: Maaninka, Tuovilanlahti; decimalLatitude: 63.23; decimalLongitude: 27.09; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: eventDate: 1865-7-16; Record Level: institutionCode: MZHF

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Jakovlev; J. Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality: Muonio, Pallasjärvi; decimalLatitude: 68.018; decimalLongitude: 24.153; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2006-6-18/7-14

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Penttinen; individualCount: 1; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Tavastia australis; verbatimLocality: Kangasala, Suorama; decimalLatitude: 61.463; decimalLongitude: 23.995; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-6-15/8-15; habitat: dry/semi-dry herb-rich forest, with Tilia and Populustremula

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2012-0031 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.846; decimalLongitude: 29.471; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-6-14/7-10; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. Widely distributed in Europe ( Chandler 2004), also in the Nordic Region, but records from Finland are very scanty. Only one recent record from Murmansk Province in NW Russia ( Polevoi 2010).

Ecology

The species lives as larvae in caves and rock crevices, on the walls, in slimy tubes, pupae are free hanging ( Madwar 1937, Ševčík et al. 2012).