Exechia micans Lastovka & Matile, 1974*

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

Exechia micans Lastovka & Matile, 1974*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: K.Mikkola; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; municipality: Enontekiö; locality: Siilastupa ; decimalLatitude: 69.047; decimalLongitude: 20.900; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Kjaerandsen; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep netting; eventDate: 1963-6-23/6-23; habitat: subarctic; Record Level: institutionCode: MZHF

Distribution

Palaearctic. Described from Mongolia ( Laštovka and Matile 1974), later recorded only from Germany ( Chandler 2004), Russian Karelia ( Zaitzev 2003), Murmansk region ( Polevoi 2010), Iceland ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007a), Norway ( Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008) and Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). No former records from Finland.

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown. Mainly collected from northern areas. This species was recorded as widespread and common in Iceland ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007a), and occurs also in Greenland (G. Varkonyi, pers.comm.).