Trichosia (Trichosia) edwardsi (Lengersdorf, 1930)

Menzel, Frank, Gammelmo, Oivind, Olsen, Kjell Magne & Koehler, Arne, 2020, The Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of Norway - Part I: species records published until December 2019, with an updated checklist, ZooKeys 957, pp. 17-104 : 17

Trichosia (Trichosia) edwardsi (Lengersdorf, 1930)

Literature.

Faunistics: Camaño Portela et al. (2008): 93 [as Trichosia edwardsi ]. Taxonomy: Menzel and Mohrig (1997): 20; Menzel and Mohrig (2000): 559 [both as Lycoria edwardsi under Trichosia (Trichosia) morio ; misidentification]; Menzel and Heller (2006): 52 [as Trichosia (Trichosia) edwardsi ]; Heller et al. (2016): 105 [as Trichosia edwardsi ].

Locality.

• Norway; without further locality details (= ‘Norway’) • Finnmark; Båtsfjord, Varangerhalvøya, Ytre Syltefjord 35 km SE of Båtsfjord (published as ‘Norway’; see faunistic note).

Faunistic note.

The single Norwegian record of Trichosia edwardsi published in Camaño Portela et al. (2008) as ‘Norway’ (without collecting data) is based on the following material: Norway • 9 ♂♂; 'Varanger Peninsula, Ytre, Syltefjord, 35 km S Batsfjord’; 7 Jul. 1994; M. Jaschhof leg.; aspirator; PWMP.

Ecological note.

Dwarf-shrub tundra. Phenology: Jul.