Phronia mutila Lundstroem , 1911*

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

Phronia mutila Lundstroem, 1911*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev and J.Penttinen; individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; municipality: Enontekiö; locality: Kilpisjaervi _Saana_South_1 ; decimalLatitude: 69.033; decimalLongitude: 20.837; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2006-6-19 /7-14; habitat: subarctic mountain birch forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ

Distribution

European. This very rare species was only known from the Austrian type material ( Lundström 1911) and from one recent record from Russian Karelia, from the shore of the White Sea ( Humala and Polevoi 2008). No former records from Finland. The species is possibly arctic-alpine.

Ecology

The Finnish sampling locality is a mountain birch forest in NW Lapland. Immature stages are unknown.