Boletina birulai Lundstroem , 1915

Salmela, Jukka, Suuronen, Anna & Kaunisto, Kari M, 2016, New and poorly known Holarctic species of Boletina Staeger, 1840 (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 7218-7218 : 7218

Boletina birulai Lundstroem, 1915

Boletina birulai Lundström, 1915: 3 ( Lundström 1915)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.E. Leech; individualCount: 8; sex: male; Location: country: Canada; verbatimLocality: Yukon, Nort Fork Crossing, Mi. 43 Peel plt.Rd; minimumElevationInMeters: 1060; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1962-7-4; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.E. Leech; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Canada; verbatimLocality: Yukon, Nort Fork Crossing, Mi. 43 Peel plt.Rd; minimumElevationInMeters: 1060; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1962-7-5; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.E. Leech; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Canada; verbatimLocality: Yukon, Nort Fork Crossing, Mi. 43 Peel plt.Rd; minimumElevationInMeters: 1060; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1962-7-6; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: P.J. Skitsko; individualCount: 5; sex: male; Location: country: Canada; verbatimLocality: Yukon, Nort Fork Crossing, Mi. 43 Peel plt.Rd; minimumElevationInMeters: 1060; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1962-7-4; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: G. & D.M. Wood; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Canada; verbatimLocality: Yukon, Dempster Highway, Mi. 51; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1973-6-25 /27; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: W.R.M. Mason; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Canada; verbatimLocality: Yukon, Herschel Island; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1971-7-1; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Canada; verbatimLocality: Yukon, Herschel Island; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1971-6-28 /29; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: P.J. Skitsko; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Canada; verbatimLocality: Yukon, North Fork Pass, Ogilvie Mts.; minimumElevationInMeters: 1200; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1962-6-18; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: B.S. Heming; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: USA; verbatimLocality: Alaska, Cape Thompson; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1961-7-26; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: B.S. Heming; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: USA; verbatimLocality: Alaska, Cape Thompson; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1961-7-29; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R.E. Leech; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: USA; verbatimLocality: Alaska, Denali Highway, Mi. 31; minimumElevationInMeters: 1370; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1962-7-22; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: P.J. Skitsko; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: USA; verbatimLocality: Alaska, Isabel Pass. Mi. 206, Richardson Highway; minimumElevationInMeters: 880; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: eventDate: 1962-7-16; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC

Distribution

Holarctic, here reported for the first time from Canada. The species was described from the arctic coast of Russia (New Siberian Islands and around Taimur, Lundström 1915), and was later rediscovered from arctic Russia (Dickson, New Siberian Islands, Zaitzev 1994). The species is also reported from Poland (Pommern, Landrock 1940) and Germany (Bavaria, Plassmann and Schacht 1999) and from Alaska in the USA ( Hackman et al. 1988). However, the record from Germany is erroneous (misidentification, the male specimen is an undescribed species close to B. nigricoxa Staeger and B. cincticornis (Walker), det. J. Salmela) and the Polish record should also be re-examined and verified. Furthermore, the record of B. birulai larvae from Port Barrow, Alaska originally implicated in causing human myiasis to an entomologist ( Casterline 1954), should be treated with caution. Larva of B. birulai has not been described and it remains unclear whether B. birulai or some other species was involved.