Docosia expectata Lastovka & Sevcik , 2006*

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

Docosia expectata Lastovka & Sevcik, 2006*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M.Jaschhof and C.Jaschhof; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio aboënsis; municipality: Turku; locality: Ruissalo ; decimalLatitude: 60.434; decimalLongitude: 22.272; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep netting; eventDate: 2004-6-27/6-27; habitat: old-growth forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Distribution

European. Known from Czech Republic, Slovakia ( Laštovka and Ševčík 2006), Great Britain ( Hutson et al. 1980, as Docosia sp. indet), Sweden and Germany ( Kurina et al. 2004, Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). New for Finland.

Ecology

The only Finnish record is from a herb-rich old-growth forest in the hemiboreal zone. Immature stages are unknown. Generally, Docosia larvae develope in a variety of microhabitats, including fungi, fungus infested wood, other vegetable matter and the nests of birds and mammals ( Hutson et al. 1980).