Cerotelion striatum (Gmelin, 1790)

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

Cerotelion striatum (Gmelin, 1790)

Material examined. Figure 1. Serbia: Sikirje, Kuka- vica Mts, small brook in deciduous forest, 648 m above sea level (a.s.l.), 42.6526° N, 021.8802° E, 30 June 2017, Kolcsár L.-P., Török E. leg., 1 male.

A Western Palaearctic species, widely distributed in Europe ( Chandler 2013), here reported for the first time from Serbia. A relatively rare species, being associated with old trees ( Ševčík and Vonička 2008) and Red-Listed in Czech Republic ( Máca 2008). Larvae develop in webs and have been reared from Auricularia auricula-judae ( Jakovlev 2011) .