Brevicornu verralli (Edwards, 1925)*

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

Brevicornu verralli (Edwards, 1925)*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; municipality: Enontekiö; locality: Kilpisjaervi _Saana_North_4 ; decimalLatitude: 69.045; decimalLongitude: 20.808; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep netting; eventDate: 2006-6-21/6-21; habitat: subarctic mountain birch forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; municipality: Kittilä; locality: Pallas-Yllaestunturi National Park ; decimalLatitude: 68.024; decimalLongitude: 24.150; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2006-7-15/8-14; habitat: old-growth forest, Myrtillus type

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: stateProvince: Savonia australis; municipality: Rantasalmi; locality: Linnansaari ; decimalLatitude: 62.116; decimalLongitude: 28.477; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Penttinen; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2008-6-24/7-25; habitat: old-growth forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ

Distribution

Palaearctic. Widely distributed in Europe ( Chandler 2004), also in North Europe: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russian Karelia and Murmansk region ( Kjaerandsen 2012). No former records from Finland.

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown. Finnish collecting sites are a mountain birch forest, an old-growth boreal forest and a herb-rich forest.