Mycetophila confusa Dziedzicki, 1884

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

Mycetophila confusa Dziedzicki, 1884

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Tavastia australis; municipality: Nastola; locality: Kurasto ; decimalLatitude: 61.109; decimalLongitude: 24.262; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Penttinen; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-6-1/6-15; habitat: Semi-natural forest with lime; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ

Distribution

Palaearctic, rather wide range in Europe ( Chandler 2004). Listed from Finland as Mycetophila affluctata Edwards, 1941 ( Hackman 1980) without locality data. Most likely a very rare species in Fennoscandia (cf. Kjaerandsen et al. 2007, Anonymous 2010).

Ecology

The Finnish collecting site is a herb-rich forest in the south boreal zone. Immature stages are unknown. Generally, Mycetophila species are associated as larvae with fruiting bodies of macrofungi, both terrestrial and wood-growing; a few species feed on slime moulds ( Jakovlev 2011a).

Conservation

Red-listed in Norway (VU, Anonymous 2010, Gammelmo et al. 2010).