Exechia borealis Lundstroem , 1912

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

Exechia borealis Lundstroem, 1912

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.Frey; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; municipality: Enontekiö; locality: Palojoensuu ; decimalLatitude: 68.285; decimalLongitude: 23.095; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: C. Lundström; Event: eventDate: 1911-7-20/7-20; habitat: subarctic; Record Level: institutionCode: MZHF

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.Frey; individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male, 1 female; Location: stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; municipality: Muonio; locality: Olostunturi ; decimalLatitude: 67.923; decimalLongitude: 23.801; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: C. Lundström; Event: eventDate: 1911-8-1; Record Level: institutionCode: MZHF

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.Frey; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; municipality: Muonio; locality: Pallastunturi ; decimalLatitude: 68.072; decimalLongitude: 24.068; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: C. Lundström; Event: eventDate: 1911-6-22; Record Level: institutionCode: MZHF

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; municipality: Enontekiö; locality: Kilpisjaervi _Saana_North_4 ; decimalLatitude: 69.045; decimalLongitude: 20.808; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2006-7-15/8-1; habitat: subarctic; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Distribution

European. This species was recently reinstated as separate from Exechia spinuligera Lundström, 1912 (lectotype from Enontekiö, Palojoki, Kjaerandsen et al. 2007a); before that it has been overlooked and confused with Exechia frigida (Boheman) in Europe ( Chandler and Perry 2010). In the Nordic Region known from Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007a).

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown.