Phronia humeralis Winnertz, 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

Phronia humeralis Winnertz, 1863**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: Obzha, Mayachino; decimalLatitude: 60.777; decimalLongitude: 32.818; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep netting; eventDate: 2012-6-25; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Distribution

Palaearctic. Widely distributed in Europe ( Chandler 2004, Zaitzev 2003), recorded from West Siberia ( Ostroverkhova 1979). In Fennoscandia known from Finland ( Hackman 1980), Norway ( Gammelmo and Søli 2006) and Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). New to the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

Collected in herb-rich spruce dominated forest. Larvae are associated with dead wood and wood-growing fungi. Reared from Corticium praetermissum ( Buxton 1960), Chondrostereum purpureum , and repeatedly obtained with eclector traps over decaying logs ( Jakovlev 2011a).