Atypophthalmus (Microlimonia) machidai (Alexander, 1921)

Polevoi, Alexei, Ruokolainen, Anna & Shorohova, Ekaterina, 2018, Eleven remarkable Diptera species, emerged from fallen aspens in Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 22175-22175 : 22175

Atypophthalmus (Microlimonia) machidai (Alexander, 1921)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. Polevoi; sex: 1 male, 1 female; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Karelia; locality: Kivach Nature Reserve ; verbatimLatitude: 62.281; verbatimLongitude: 33.967; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Polevoi; Event: samplingProtocol: Trunk emergence trap; eventDate: 2016-06-23 /07-21; Record Level: institutionCode: FRIP

Diagnosis

Medium sized species with peculiar male genitalia (Fig. 2), see also ( Podenas and Gelhaus 2007, fig. 51)

Distribution

Palaearctic and Oriental regions ( Oosterbroek 2017). Karelian record is the northernmost one. Closest locations are in Poland, Lithuania and Moscow province in Russia.

Ecology

Saproxylic species. Larvae develop under the bark of various trees ( Krivosheina 2010). This species was collected from a wind-broken aspen, colonised by 13 species of macrofungi (Table 1).