Allodia (Brachycampta) penicillata ( Lundstroem , 1912)

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

Allodia (Brachycampta) penicillata ( Lundstroem, 1912)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Tietäväinen; individualCount: 2; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Karelia borealis; verbatimLocality: Ilomantsi, Kotavaara; decimalLatitude: 63.029; decimalLongitude: 31.377; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1998-6-11 /15; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0189 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; individualCount: 1; 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; J. Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-6-14 /7-10; habitat: headwater stream, seminatural boreal forest; Record Level: institutionCode: JES Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0010 ; recordedBy: J. Salmela; T. Hietajärvi; individualCount: 1; 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, known from Finland (as Brachycampta penicillata , Lundström 1912b), Russian Karelia ( Polevoi 2000) and Latvia ( Lackschewitz 1937). Very rare species, in Finland hitherto only recorded from the type locality in NW Lapland, Muonio (R. Frey leg. 1911, Lundström 1912b).

Ecology

Collected in Vaccinium myrtillus type spruce dominated forests and from riparian forests. Immature stages are unknown.