Phronia gracilis Hackman, 1970

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 gracilis Hackman, 1970

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0179 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.835; decimalLongitude: 29.454; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-6-14/7-10; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. The species was described from NE Finland, Kuusamo, Jäkälävuoma ( Hackman 1970) and has been since recorded only from Germany ( Chandler 2004). The species has a characteristic eastern distribution in Finland, so far known from the Kainuu and Kuusamo areas ( Hackman 1970, Jakovlev 2011b Jakovlev 2011b) here reported for the first time from NE Lapland.

Ecology

Collected from old-growth boreal forests. Immature stages are unknown. Larvae of Trichonta and Phronia are usually surface feeders on encrusting fungi and slime moulds ( Gagné 1975, Gagné 1981).

Conservation

Red-listed (NT) in Finland ( Penttinen et al. 2010).