Mycetophila pyrenaica Matile, 1967*

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 pyrenaica Matile, 1967*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Tavastia australis; municipality: Tammela; locality: Pehkijaervi ; decimalLatitude: 59.963; decimalLongitude: 23.585; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Penttinen; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2099-6-1 /6-15; habitat: aspen dominated HRT in Häme, close to Forss; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ

Distribution

Palaearctic. Described from France ( Matile 1967) and has been later recorded from Germany ( Chandler 2004), Poland ( Kurina and Ševčík 2006), Russia ( Zaitzev 2003), Norway ( Anonymous 2010, Gammelmo and Søli 2006), Sweden ( Kurina et al. 2004) and the Italian Alps ( Kurina 2008). New for Finland.

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown. The Finnish collecting site is a herb-rich forest dominated by aspen and spruce.

Conservation

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