Dynatosoma cochleare Strobl, 1895**

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

Dynatosoma cochleare Strobl, 1895**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: Valaam, Divnaya Bukhta; decimalLatitude: 61.35; decimalLongitude: 30.99; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-7-27 /8-2; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Distribution

Palaearctic. Widely distributed in Europe ( Chandler 2004, Ševčík and Kurina 2011) and also recorded from the Russian Far East, Kuril Islands ( Zaitzev 2003). In Fennoscandia reported from Finland ( Hackman 1980), Norway ( Gammelmo and Søli 2006) and Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). New to the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

The Karelian specimen was collected in herb-rich spruce dominated forest. The larvae of Dynatosoma usually live within fruiting bodies of soft polypores ( Ševčík 2010, Jakovlev 2012). Their presence may often be detected by white frass that the larvae extrude from their burrows onto the surface of the fungus ( Edwards 1925).