Mycetophila boreocruciator Sevcik , 2003

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 boreocruciator Sevcik, 2003

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0009 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; T. Hietajärvi; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio kuusamoensis; verbatimLocality: Salla, Kuntasjoki, Värriö Strict Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation: 320 m; decimalLatitude: 67.749; decimalLongitude: 29.617; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013; verbatimEventDate: 2013-6-4 /29; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. Description of the species was based on material collected from Sweden, Estonia and Slovakia ( Ševčík 2003). Recently found from Russia, Murmansk region ( Polevoi 2010) and northern Norway ( Søli and Rindal 2012). The Swedish records range from the hemiboreal to the boreal zone ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007). New for Finland. Records of M. paracruciator Lastovka & Matile, 1974 from Switzerland, Italy and France may actually represent M. boreocruciator ( Chandler 2004).

Ecology

Immature stages are unknown. The Finnish sampling site is a headwater stream valley surrounded by old-growth boreal forest.