Coelosia flava ( Staeger , 1840)**

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

Coelosia flava ( Staeger, 1840)**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; 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: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-6-22/8; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Distribution

European. Widely distributed ( Chandler 2004). New to the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

The Karelian specimen was collected in a black alder fen. Immature stages are unknown. Coelosia larvae are generally associated with fungal fruiting bodies ( Jakovlev 1994), but some species have been collected with eclector traps over dead wood, or on soil ( Jakovlev et al. 1994, Økland 1999).