Pyratula subcanariae Chandler & Blasco-Zumeta, 2001*

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

Pyratula subcanariae Chandler & Blasco-Zumeta, 2001*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0197 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Joutenoja; decimalLatitude: 67.821; decimalLongitude: 29.440; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-16/9-18; habitat: headwater stream, seminatural boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0155 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.846; decimalLongitude: 29.471; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-16/9-18; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0192 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja; decimalLatitude: 67.846; decimalLongitude: 29.471; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-10/8-16; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0260 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality: Savukoski, Törmäoja, Ahot; decimalLatitude: 67.816; decimalLongitude: 29.426; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 2013-8-7; habitat: natural meadow; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0363 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela, T. Hietajärvi; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Regio kuusamoensis; verbatimLocality: Salla, Värriö, Kuntasjoki; verbatimElevation: 330 m; decimalLatitude: 67.749; decimalLongitude: 29.616; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-6-29/7-29; habitat: headwater stream, old-growth forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. Very poorly known species, described from Switzerland, Leuk ( Chandler and Blasco-Zumeta 2001) and later reported from Bulgaria, eastern Danubian plain ( Bechev 2006). The collecting site of the holotype is apparently mountainous whereas the Bulgarian site is only 150 m above sea level. Also collected from northern Sweden ( Kjaerandsen 2012, J. Kjaerandsen, pers. comm.).

Ecology

Finnish localities are headwater streams with luxuriant riparian vegetation surrounded by coniferous forests. One of the sites ( Törmäoja, Ahot) is a treeless, sloping meadow with short herbs and grasses on a moraine soil. Immature stages are unknown. The related species, Pyratula zonata has been collected with eclector traps on ground vegetation, moss carpets, and mineral soil under root plate of wind felled tree ( Økland 1999) and on decaying trunks of aspen and goat willow, Salix caprea (J. Jakovlev, unpublished).