Mycetophila mohilevensis Dziedzicki, 1884**

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

Mycetophila mohilevensis Dziedzicki, 1884**

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: Obzha, 1 km NE of Ustje Obzhanki; decimalLatitude: 60.828; decimalLongitude: 32.83; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep netting; eventDate: 2012-6-23; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Republic Karelia; verbatimLocality: 2 km NW of Besovets; decimalLatitude: 61.869; decimalLongitude: 34.116; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall trap; eventDate: 2009-10-12 /16; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Distribution

Palaearctic. Scattered records in Europe and East Russia ( Chandler 2004, Zaitzev 2003). In Fennoscandia known from Finland ( Hackman 1980), Norway ( Gammelmo and Søli 2006) and Sweden ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). New to the Republic of Karelia.

Ecology

Collected in Vaccinium myrtillus type coniferous forests in different succession stages. Larvae live in lignicolous fungi, rearing records exist from Piptoporus betulinus ( Zaitzev 2003) and Tyromyces chioneus ( Ševčík 2010).