Mycomya (Mycomya) britteni Kidd, 1955

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

Mycomya (Mycomya) britteni Kidd, 1955

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0337 ; recordedBy: Jari Ilmonen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; verbatimLocality: Espoo, Matalajärvi; decimalLatitude: 60.246; decimalLongitude: 24.687; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Salmela; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-7-21/8-23; habitat: swampy lake shore; Record Level: institutionCode: JES

Distribution

European. Very rare species, hitherto recorded only from Great Britain, Finland ( Väisänen 1984, Karjalohja, South Finland) Norway ( Gammelmo and Søli 2006), Sweden ( Kjaerandsen 2012) and Czech Republic ( Ševčík and Roháček 2008).

Ecology

Mostly likely a wetland-dwelling species. Reared from sedge ( Carex ) tussocks in Czech Republic ( Ševčík and Roháček 2008). The Finnish locality is a swampy lake shore, and the only Norwegian record is from a lake shore wetland ( Anonymous 2010). Immature stages are unknown.

Conservation

Red-listed in Norway (VU, Anonymous 2010, Gammelmo et al. 2010).