Orfelia krivosheinae Zaitzev, 1994***

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

Orfelia krivosheinae Zaitzev, 1994***

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0269 ; recordedBy: Seppo Karjalainen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Karelia ladogensis; verbatimLocality: Parikkala, Niukkala; decimalLatitude: 61.729; decimalLongitude: 29.887; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; J. Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Trunk window trap on Betula trunk; eventDate: 2012-6-20 /7-19; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

Palaearctic. Orfelia krivosheinae (Fig. 3) was described from Russia, Tuva (Central Asia, Zaitzev 1994). No published records are available besides the original description. New for Europe.

Ecology

The type material was reared from larvae found on mycelium in a decaying poplar ( Populus ) tree ( Zaitzev 1994). The Finnish specimen was taken from a trunk-window trap set on a birch trunk.