Urytalpa rhapsodica Chandler, 1995

Kolcsár, Levente-Péter & Salmela, Jukka, 2017, New taxonomic and faunistic records of fungus gnats (Insecta, Diptera) from Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, Check List 13 (5), pp. 533-559 : 539-540

Urytalpa rhapsodica Chandler, 1995

Material examined. Figure 1. Romania: Gura Haitii, Călimani Mt., spruce forest near to mine, 1640 m a.s.l., 47.107088° N, 025.2385° E, 21 August 2014, Kolcsár L.-P. leg., 3 males, DIPT-JS-2016-0239.

The species was described from Slovakia (Chandler 1995) and has been later found from the Czech Republic ( Ševčík 2004), Switzerland, Bulgaria ( Bechev and Koç 2008), and Italy ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2009) and is here reported for the first time from Romania. Immature stages

are unknown, but larvae of Urytalpa probably dwell among soil, moss carpets, or decaying wood ( Jakovlev et al. 2014). Based on those few published localities, the species is most likely associated with European montane forests.

Subfamily Macrocerinae Rondani, 1856

Macrocera longibrachiata Landrock, 1917

Material examined. Figure 1. Romania: Stâna de Vale, Bihor Mt., Valea Ciripa, spruce forest around cold springs, 1375 m a.s.l., 46.6756° N, 022.6412° E, 22 May 2014, Kolcsár L.-P. leg., 1 male, DIPT-JS-2016-0188.

Landrock (1917) described this species from Ger- many. Also known from Great Britain ( Hutson et al. 1980), Slovakia ( Ševčík 2007), Estonia ( Kurina 1998), Belgium, France, Italy ( Chandler 2013), and new for the Romanian fauna. A very rare and poorly known species, immature stages are unknown. Larvae of Macrocera are predaceous, living on various substrates, such as soil and dead wood ( Hutson et al. 1980, Ševčík and Roháček 2008).