Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) brevicornis (Zetterstedt, 1851)

Menzel, Frank, Gammelmo, Oivind, Olsen, Kjell Magne & Koehler, Arne, 2020, The Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of Norway - Part I: species records published until December 2019, with an updated checklist, ZooKeys 957, pp. 17-104 : 17

Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) brevicornis (Zetterstedt, 1851)

Literature.

Faunistics: Zetterstedt (1851): 3748; Zetterstedt (1860): 6526; Siebke (1877): 213 [all as Sciara brevicornis ]; Soot-Ryen (1942): 79 [in part as Neosciara nitidula ; misidentification (only cited brevicornis specimens)]. Menzel et al. (1990): 326 [as Scatopsciara nacta sensu Tuomikoski; misidentification]; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 490 [as Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) brevicornis ]. Taxonomy: Tuomikoski (1960): 151, 153 [as Scaptosciara nacta ; misidentification; recte Scatopsciara ]; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 490 [as Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) brevicornis ] and 498 [in part as Scaptosciara (Scatopsciara) nacta sensu Tuomikoski; misidentification]; Mohrig et al. (2013): 236 [as Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) brevicornis in the taxonomic note of Scatopsciara (Scatopsciara) atomaria ].

Localities.

• Norway; without further locality details (= ‘Norvegia’; = ‘Norwegen’) • Oslo; Oslo, Tøyen (= ‘Tøyen, Oslo’) • Trøndelag; Levanger, Skogn SE of Levanger (= 'Tynes, Værdal’) [= in the accommodation of Thy in Skogn] • Trondheim (= 'ad Throndhjem’; = 'ad Trondhjem’; = 'ad Trondhjem [bei Trondheim]'; = ‘Trondheim’).

Ecological note.

Habitats not specified. Phenology: Jul.