Additions to the list of Finnish Bibionomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera)

Abstract

A total of 12 gnat species are reported for the first time from Finland (3 Cecidomyiidae, 1 Keroplatidae, 8 Mycetophilidae), and the occurrence of Macrocera
nigropicea Lundström in Finland is verified. All material was collected from the Finnish Lapland, mainly from the north boreal ecoregion. Two of the recorded species are likely to be pyrophilous, associated with forest fire sites. A photo of the ventral appendage of the gonocoxite of Brevicornu
setigerum Zaitzev is provided for the first time. The male hypopygium of Mycetophila
haruspica Plassmann is redescribed.

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Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5228
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5228
Taxonomic Paper
Additions to the list of Finnish Bibionomorpha
(Diptera, Nematocera)
Jukka Salmela , Kari M Kaunisto
‡ Parks & Wildlife Finland (Metsähallitus), Rovaniemi, Finland
§ Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Corresponding author: Jukka Salmela (jukka.e.salmela@gmail.com)
Academic editor: Vladimir Blagoderov
Received: 01 May 2015 | Accepted: 20 Jun 2015 | Published: 25 Jun 2015
Citation: Salmela J, Kaunisto K (2015) Additions to the list of Finnish Bibionomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera).
Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5228. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5228
Abstract
A total of 12 gnat species are reported for the first time from Finland (3 Cecidomyiidae, 1
Keroplatidae, 8 Mycetophilidae), and the occurrence of Macrocera nigropicea Lundström in
Finland is verified. All material was collected from the Finnish Lapland, mainly from the
north boreal ecoregion. Two of the recorded species are likely to be pyrophilous,
associated with forest fire sites. A photo of the ventral appendage of the gonocoxite of
Brevicornu setigerum Zaitzev is provided for the first time. The male hypopygium of
Mycetophila haruspica Plassmann is redescribed.
Keywords
Cecidomyiidae, Lestremiinae, Porricondylinae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae, gall migdes,
fungus gnats
Introduction
With over 52000 species globally, nematocerans or lower Diptera are one of the most
species-rich insect groups in the world (Pape et al. 2009). Within Nematocera, the most
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successful terrestrial group is the Bibionomorpha, including a majority of the saproxylic,
fungivorous and herbivorous species (e.g. Mycetophilidae and Cecidomyiidae, Marshall
2012). As in many other biotic groups, Fennoscandian or North European
bibionomorphans are perhaps the best known on the globe, especially regarding fungus
gnats (or Sciaroidea, excluding Sciaridae). Despite the taxonomic and faunistic tradition
starting from the 18th century (see Kjaerandsen et al. 2007b), species are continually
added to the Nordic list (Søli and Rindal 2012, Jakovlev et al. 2014), including species new
to science (e.g. Kjaerandsen et al. 2009, Salmela and Suuronen 2014, Kurina et al. 2015).
No less than 915 fungus gnat species are currently known from the Nordic countries and
Russian parts of Fennoscandia (Karelia and Murmansk oblast), consisting of approximately
83 % of the total European fungus gnat fauna (Kjaerandsen 2015). Nevertheless, at least
100 Fennoscandian fungus gnat species await formal naming and description
(Kjaerandsen J., Polevoi A., Søli G., Salmela J., in prep.), raising the total number of
species occurring in the area to around 1000. Non-herbivorous, or fungivorous and
saproxylic gall midges (Cecidomyiidae) are far more poorly known than fungus gnats. In
their recent monographs on the Nordic fauna, Mathias and Catrin Jaschhof (Jaschhof and
Jaschhof 2009, Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2013) have described dozens of new species and
have much advanced the faunistic knowledge on Lestremiinae and Porricondylinae. For
example, the number of Finnish Cecidomyiidae have increased from 136 (Hackman 1980)
to 356 (Jaschhof et al. 2014), mainly due to taxonomic and faunistic work performed during
the last ten years. However, both Lestremiinae and Porricondylinae should still be
considered as poorly known groups, and further additions to the Nordic and Finnish lists
are expected.
A list of Finnish Diptera was recently published (Kahanpää and Salmela 2014). In the
present paper, 12 species was added to this list (3 Cecidomyiidae, 1 Keroplatidae, 8
Mycetophilidae) and the occurrence of one keroplatid species that was erroneously deleted
from the Finnish list was confirmed. Thus, the number of Finnish fungus gnats and gall
midges now totals 772 and 359 species, respectively.
Materials and methods
All material reported here was collected from Finnish Lapland (Fig. 1). Lapland is an
administrative area, covering a land area of ca. 100k km . The SW corner of the area,
close to the Baltic Sea, is middle boreal. The central part of Lapland is north boreal:
coniferous forests prevail in the landscape, but there are isolated tree-less fells.
Northernmost Lapland is an oroarctic area, sometimes called subalpine ecoregion. Fells
and mountain birch forests prevail; isolated pine forests occur in some river valleys. The
length of the thermal growing season (i.e. the number of days with the average
temperature greater than + 5 C degrees after snow melt) is ca. 140-150 days in the middle
boreal and ca. 105-110 days in the subalpine ecoregion (http://ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/terminen-
kasvukausi, website accessed28.4.2015).
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All material is deposited in the private collection of Jukka Salmela, Rovaniemi (JES). All
specimens are stored in 70 % ethanol, kept in 2 ml plastic vials with screw cap and a
rubber o-ring seal. Hypopygia of some specimens are kept in separate 0,5 ml microvials in
glycerol.
Layer photos were taken using an Olympus E520 digital camera, attached to an Olympus
SZX16 stereomicroscope. Digital photos were captured using the programmes Deep
Focus 3.1 and Quick PHOTO CAMERA 2.3. Extended depth of focus images were
reconstructed in the program Combine ZP.
Taxon treatments
Eomastix incerta (Jaschhof, 2002)
Materials
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Urho Kekkonen National Park, Jaurujoki; verbatimLatitude: 68.1196;
verbatimLongitude: 28.5888; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: trunk window trap; eventDate: 2014-7-1/8-5; habitat: burned,
pine dominated forest, trap was set on a standing spruce; individualCount: 1; sex: male;
catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0247; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela;
institutionCode: JES
b. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Urho Kekkonen National Park, Jaurujoki; verbatimLatitude: 68.1205;
verbatimLongitude: 28.5815; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: trunk window trap; eventDate: 2009-6-4/9-16; habitat: burned,
Figure 1.
A map of Finnish Lapland and the collecting locaties of the Bibionomorpha species reported in
the present paper. Green dots=middle boreal ecoregion, black dots=north boreal ecoregion,
red diamonds=subalpine ecoregion. The map was created by using Google Maps.
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pine dominated forest, trap was set on a standing spruce; individualCount: 10; sex: 8
male, 2 female; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0276; recordedBy: J. Salmela;
otherCatalogNumbers: DIPT-JS-2014-0243, DIPT-JS-2014-0341, DIPT-JS-2014-0492,
DIPT-JS-2014-0493; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European. The species (Fig. 2) was described from Sweden, (Tyresta) as
Gongromastix incerta (Jaschhof 2002), and was later transferred to a monotypic genus
Eomastix (Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2009). The species is known from Norway and
Sweden, from a single site in both countries (Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2009). The
Finnish locality is in Urho Kekkonen National Park, in the north boreal zone, close to
the Russian border.
Ecology
Larvae of Lestreminae are perhaps mostly saproxylic (Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2009).
The species is most likely to be pyrophilous, requiring or preferring forest fire areas. In
Sweden, the species was collected from site that had experienced forest fire
roughly
one year earlier (Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2009). The Finnish collecting site is an old-
growth burnt forest, dominated by pine (Pinus sylvestris), with scattered spruce (Picea
abies) and birch (Betula sp). The forest fire site (Fig. 3) is circa 34 ha in area, and the
fire was ignited by lightning in late July 2013. The species seems to have rather long
flying season, from June to August.
Figure 2.
Eomastix incerta (Jaschhof) (Cecidomyiidae), male, DIPT-JS-2014-0492.
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Lestremia solidaginis (Felt, 1907)
Materials
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Urho Kekkonen National Park, Jaurujoki; verbatimLatitude: 68.1174;
verbatimLongitude: 28.5814; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: trunk window trap; eventDate: 2014-8-5/9-16; habitat: burned,
pine dominated forest, trap was set on a standing pine; individualCount: 1; sex: male;
catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0343; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela;
institutionCode: JES
b. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Urho Kekkonen National Park, Jaurujoki; verbatimLatitude: 68.1191;
verbatimLongitude: 28.5844; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: trunk window trap; eventDate: 2014-8-5/9-16; habitat: burned,
pine dominated forest, trap was set on a standing spruce; individualCount: 1; sex: male;
catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0350; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela;
institutionCode: JES
c. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Urho Kekkonen National Park, Jaurujoki; verbatimLatitude: 68.1192;
verbatimLongitude: 28.5780; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: trunk window trap; eventDate: 2014-8-5/9-16; habitat: burned,
pine dominated forest, trap was set on a standing pine; individualCount: 4; sex: male;
catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0352; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela;
institutionCode: JES
Figure 3.
Forest fire site in Savukoski, Finnish Lapland, Urho Kekkonen National Park. Forest fire took
place in 2013 and insect sampling (trunk-window traps) was performed in 2014. Two rare and
poorly known ceciidomyiids, Eomastix incerta (Jaschhof) and Lestremia solidaginis (Felt),
were caught. Both species are probably pyrophilous. Photo Jukka Salmela 6/2014.
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Distribution
Holarctic. The species is known to occur widely in the Nearctic region, but in the
Palaearctic recorded only from southern Sweden (Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2009).
Ecology
Perhaps a pyrophilous species (Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2009), a hypothesis supported
by our observation. Swedish locality was a forest-fire site in Tyresta (Jaschhof 2002,
Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2009). Finnish locality, identical to Eomastix incerta, see above.
Porricondyla macrodon Jaschhof, 2013
Material
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality:
Keminmaa, Kallinkangas; verbatimLatitude: 65.8173; verbatimLongitude: 24.4995;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-7-28/9-23; habitat: rich fen; individualCount: 1; sex: male;
catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0470; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela;
institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European. The species was described recently from southern Sweden, Uppsala and
Tyresta (Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2013), no other records are available. The Finnish
locality is in SW Lapland, middle boreal ecoregion.
Ecology
The holotype specimen was collected from an "open woodland with old oaks"
(Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2013). The Finnish sampling site is a rich fen, surrounded by
young deciduous forest. Larvae of Porricondylinae midges are terrestrial mycelium
feeders, living on detritus and dead wood (Jaschhof and Jaschhof 2013).
Asindulum nigrum Latreille, 1805
Material
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality:
Tornio, Isonkummunjänkä Mire Conservation Area, Kusiaiskorpi; verbatimLatitude:
65.888; verbatimLongitude: 24.479; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees;
verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-8-1/9-26;
habitat: calcareous rich fen, rusty deposist; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber:
DIPT-JS-2014-0115; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode:
JES
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Distribution
European. The species (Fig. 4) was described from France (Latreille 1805) and has
been later recorded from Great Britain, Central and North Europe (Matile 1975,
Chandler 1991Chandler 2004). The species seems to be rather rare throughout its
range (Hedmark 2004, Chandler 1991, Ševčík and Kurina 2011b). In Sweden the
species is very rare, known from the southern and central parts of the country, but
it
has probably vanished from four out of six of its previously occupied biogeographical
provinces (Cederberg et al. 2010).
Ecology
Immature stages are unknown, but Orfeliini larvae are predaceous (Marshall 2012).
Asindulum nigrum has been collected from calcareous wetlands (Chandler 1991,
Hedmark 2004) and adult flies have often been observed visiting flowers, such as
Apiaceae and Saxifraga hirculus (Bechev 2010). Finnish collecting site is a calcareous
rich fen with iron-rich seepages (for a detailed description of the habitat, see Salmela et
al. 2014).
Conservation
The species is red-listed in Great Britain (NT, Falk and Chandler 2005) and Sweden
(VU, Cederberg et al. 2010).
Figure 4.
Asindulum nigrum Latreille (Keroplatidae), male, DIPT-JS-2014-0487. Adult flies of both sexes
visit flowers and have elongated mouthparts.
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Macrocera nigropicea Lundström, 1906
Materials
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality:
Kittilä, Taljavaaranvuoma; verbatimLatitude: 67.577; verbatimLongitude: 25.362;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-6-25/7-24; habitat: rich fen; individualCount: 6; sex: 4
male, 2 female; catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0035; recordedBy: J. Salmela;
identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
b. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality:
Kittilä, Repsuvuoma; verbatimLatitude: 67.605; verbatimLongitude: 24.964;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-6-26/7-25; habitat: rich fen; individualCount: 2; sex: male;
catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0054; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela;
institutionCode: JES
c. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality:
Kittilä, Silmäsvuoma; verbatimLatitude: 67.583; verbatimLongitude: 25.543;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-6-25/7-25; habitat: rich fen; individualCount: 2; sex: male;
catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0057; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela;
institutionCode: JES
d. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality:
Kittilä, Nunaravuoma; verbatimLatitude: 67.699; verbatimLongitude: 25.353;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-6-1/6-27; habitat: poor sedge fen; individualCount: 1; sex:
male; catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0074; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J.
Salmela; institutionCode: JES
e. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality:
Kittilä, Kielisenpalo; verbatimLatitude: 68.021; verbatimLongitude: 25.053;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-6-26/7-27; habitat: rich spring fen; individualCount: 1; sex:
male; catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0099; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J.
Salmela; institutionCode: JES
f. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars occidentalis; verbatimLocality:
Kittilä, Akharamanvuoma; verbatimLatitude: 67.593; verbatimLongitude: 25.308;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2007-6-25/8-2; habitat: rich pine fen; individualCount: 5; sex: 3
female, 2 male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0332; recordedBy: J. Salmela;
identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
g. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Törmäoja, Ahot; verbatimLatitude: 67.817; verbatimLongitude: 29.432;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-7-8/8-7; habitat: dry meadow; individualCount: 2; sex:
male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0414; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J.
Salmela; institutionCode: JES
h. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Törmäoja, Ahot; verbatimLatitude: 67.821; verbatimLongitude: 29.436;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-7-8/8-7; habitat: margin of pond, surrounded by dry
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meadow; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0474;
recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European. The species (Fig. 5) was described from Russia, Kola peninsula (Lundström
1906). Chandler (Chandler 1990) redescribed the species and reported it from the
British Isles. Later Kjaerandsen et al. (Kjaerandsen et al. 2007a) verified the species
from Iceland and discussed the distribution and taxonomy of the species. Although
Kjaerandsen et al. had studied material collected from South Finland (Ab, Karislojo
[Karjalohja]; Ka, Vehkalahti; N, Esbo [Espoo], Westend, six males in total), Jakovlev
(Jakovlev 2014) deleted the species from the Finnish list, assuming that the species
had not been found within post WWII borders of Finland. Here we confirm the
occurrence of the species in Finland, and report eight new sites from Finnish Lapland.
In Fennoscandia, M. nigropicea is only known from Murmansk oblast and Finland.
Ecology
Immature stages are unknown, but Macrocera larvae are predaceous and mostly
associated with soil and dead wood (see e.g. Falk and Chandler 2005, Ševčík and
Roháček 2008). Macrocera nigropicea is perhaps associated with peatlands (Chandler
1990) or woodlands (Kjaerandsen et al. 2007a). Six out of eight sites reported here are
aapamires, that is, minerogenous fens with wet flarks and dry bog-level strings. Two of
the sites are open, dry meadows, but not situated far from either forest or peaty pond
margins. Based on our observations, M. nigropicea is perhaps not an obligate mire-
dwelling species, but may prefer open habitats.
a
b
Figure 5.
Macrocera nigropicea Lundström (Keroplatidae), habitus, DIPT-JS-2014-0332.
a: Male.
b: Female.
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Sciophila arizonensis Zaitzev, 1982
Material
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality:
Kemijärvi, Pyhä-Luosto National Park, Huttuoja; verbatimLatitude: 66.9983;
verbatimLongitude: 27.0265; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-8-8/9-19; habitat: rusty spring
brook, pine mire, close to riparian forest; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber:
DIPT-JS-2014-0385; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode:
JES
Distribution
Holarctic. The description of the species (Fig. 6) was based on material collected from
three Nearctic sites in Arizona, British Columbia and Ontario (Zaitzev 1982). Later the
species has been recorded from the Russian Far East (Zaitzev 2006), France,
Switzerland (Chandler 2004) and the Czech Republic (Ševčík 2005). New for the
Fennoscandian fauna.
Ecology
Immature stages are unknown, but Sciophila larvae are fungivorous, living on the
surfaces of agaric and polyporous fungi (Ševčík 2010), rarely on Pezizales (Jakovlev
2011). Finnish locality (Fig. 7) is a iron-rich spring-fed brook on an ecotone between a
pine mire and a luxuriant riparian forest.
Figure 6.
Sciophila arizonensis Zaitzev (Mycetophilidae), male hopygium, dorsal view, DIPT-
JS-2014-0385.
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Sciophila fridolini Stackelberg, 1943
Material
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia inariensis; verbatimLocality: Inari,
Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area, Ceavrajohoaivi; verbatimLatitude: 69.1750;
verbatimLongitude: 26.2012; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-6-26/8-5; habitat: alpine
headwater stream; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2015-0200;
recordedBy: E. Rundgren; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
Holarctic. The species was described from Russia, Kola Peninsula (Stackelberg 1943),
and has since been recorded from the British Isles (Hutson 1979), Norway (Gammelmo
and Søli 2006), USA (Zaitzev 1982) and Czech Republic (Ševčík 2005). Record from
East Palaearctic (Chandler 2004) refers to Kola Peninsula, so it is not an additional
area of distribution (P.J. Chandler, pers.comm.).
Ecology
Immature stages are unknown, but S. fridolini is presumably a woodland species (Falk
and Chandler 2005). The Finnish collecting site is an alpine wetland along a headwater
stream, characterized by Carex tussocks, Viola biflora and sparse mountain birch
forest.
Figure 7.
Malaise trap in Kemijärvi, Finnish Lapland, Pyhä-Luosto National Park, close to Huttuoja. The
sampling site is a mixture of habitats, such as rusty spring brook, riparian forest and pine mire.
Rare Holarctic fungus-gnat Sciophila arizonensis Zaitzev was identified from the trap material.
J. Salmela 6/2014.
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Sciophila spinifera Zaitzev, 1982
Materials
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Sodankylä, Pomokaira, Paistipuolet NE; verbatimLatitude: 67.834; verbatimLongitude:
26.270; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84;
samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-6-1/6-29; habitat: intermediate rich
spring fen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: MYCE-NV-2013-0196;
recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
b. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Sodankylä, Pomokaira, Poksaselkä E; verbatimLatitude: 67.858; verbatimLongitude:
26.259; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84;
samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2009-6-1/6-29; habitat: spring brook
surrounded by old-growth spruce forest; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber:
DIPT-JS-2014-0317; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode:
JES
c. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia inariensis; verbatimLocality: Inari,
Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area, Kielajoki; verbatimLatitude: 69.1464; verbatimLongitude:
26.2929; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84;
samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-6-26/8-5; habitat: herb-rich swampy
birch forest; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2015-0238;
recordedBy: E. Rundgren; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European. In his original description, Zaitzev (Zaitzev 1982) assigned S. spinifera (Fig.
8) as a Finnish species, the holotype specimen was collected by Richard Frey from a
place named "Opariornia". There is, however, no such place in Finland, and later the
holotype was interpreted as a Swedish specimen, collected from Övertorneå
(Kjaerandsen et al. 2007b, misspelled by Zaitzev), on the Swedish side of the River
Figure 8.
Sciophila spinifera Zaitzev (Mycetophilidae), male, DIPT-JS-2014-0317.
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Tornio between Finland and Sweden. In addition to Sweden, the species is known from
southern Norway (Økland and Zaitzev 1997) and Switzerland (Chandler 1998).
Ecology
Immature stages are unknown, but S. spinifera is presumably a forest-dwelling species
(Økland and Zaitzev 1997). Finnish sampling sites are either old-growth, spruce-
dominated moist forests (two sites) or a swampy birch forest.
Allodia (Brachycampta) bohemica Ševčík, 2004
Material
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality:
Rovaniemi, Savioja; verbatimLatitude: 66.227; verbatimLongitude: 25.376;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-8-1/9-26; habitat: herb-rich forest along a headwater
stream; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0178; recordedBy:
J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European. A rarely collected and poorly known species, reported from Czech Republic
(Ševčík 2004) and Russian Karelia (Jakovlev et al. 2014). The Finnish collecting site
reported here is located in SW Lapland, middle boreal ecoregion.
Ecology
Larvae of Allodia are likely to be fungivorous, see discussion in Jakovlev et al. 2014.
The Finnish locality is a herb-rich riparian forest, dominated by deciduous trees.
Brevicornu setigerum Zaitzev, 1995
Materials
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia inariensis; verbatimLocality: Inari,
Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area, Kielajoki; verbatimLatitude: 69.1464; verbatimLongitude:
26.2929; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84;
samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-6-26/8-5; habitat: herb-rich swampy
birch forest; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2015-0213;
recordedBy: E. Rundgren; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
b. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Törmäoja, Ahot; verbatimLatitude: 67.8273; verbatimLongitude: 29.4369;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-8-7/9-19; habitat: seasonally wet meadow with large
Carex-tussocs, surrounded by dry meadow; individualCount: 1; sex: male;
catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0356; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela;
institutionCode: JES
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c. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Törmäoja, Ahot; verbatimLatitude: 67.8176; verbatimLongitude: 29.4372;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-8-8/9-19; habitat: dry meadow; individualCount: 1; sex:
male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0436; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J.
Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European. A poorly known and rarely collected Fennoscandian species (Fig. 9). The
species was described by Zaitzev (in Zaitzev and Polevoi 1995), based on a holotype
male collected from Kivach Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia. Recently, the species
was observed from Alta in northern Norway (Søli and Rindal 2012).
Ecology
Immature stages are unknown, but Brevicornu larvae are most likely associated with
microfungi in dead wood and soil litter (Jakovlev 2011). The species is presumably a
forest-dwelling fungus gnat; at least, the Norwegian sampling site was a mixed forest
(Ekrem et al. 2012). The Finnish locality is a swampy birch forest in the subalpine
ecoregion.
a
b
Figure 9.
Brevicornu setigerum Zaitzev (Mycetophilidae), details of male hypopygium, MYCE-
JS-2013-0356.
a: Gonostylus, lateral view.
b: Ventral appendage of gonocoxites, ventral view; this structure has not been figured before.
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Stigmatomeria obscura (Winnertz, 1864)
Material
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; verbatimLocality: Enontekiö,
Kilpisjärvi, Saana; verbatimLatitude: 69.0480; verbatimLongitude: 20.8072;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
sweep net; eventDate: 2014-7-1; habitat: road side, mountain birch forest;
individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2015-0183; recordedBy: J.
Kahanpää; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European, but likely to have wide Palaearctic range (Kjaerandsen et al. 2007b). The
species was described from Germany (Winnertz 1864), but was later tentatively
considered as a junior synonym of S. crassicornis (Stannius) by Tuomikoski
(Tuomikoski 1966). However, status of S. obscura as a valid species was recently
reinstated (), and the species is known to occur in Germany, Sweden (Skåne)
(Kjaerandsen et al. 2007b) and Norway (Kongsvoll) (Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008). The
Finnish locality is in NW Lapland, Kilpisjärvi, belonging to the Caledonian mountain
range.
Ecology
Immature stages are unknown. The Finnish locality was a road-side in a mountain birch
forest, close to Saana fell.
Mycetophila haruspica Plassmann, 1990
Materials
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Joutenoja; verbatimLatitude: 67.8213; verbatimLongitude: 29.4408;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2012-8-16/9-18; habitat: headwater stream, boreal forest;
individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0065; recordedBy: J.
Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
b. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia enontekiensis; verbatimLocality: Enontekiö,
Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, Röyninkuru; verbatimLatitude: 68.1482;
verbatimLongitude: 24.0750; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-8-7/9-19; habitat: headwater
stream, old-growth spruce forest; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-
JS-2014-0146; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
c. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Sodankylä, Pomokaira-Tenniöaapa Mire Conservation Area, Syväkuru; verbatimLatitude:
67.8731; verbatimLongitude: 26.2148; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees;
verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-8-14/9-19;
habitat: willow swamp with seepages, old-growth boreal forest; individualCount: 1; sex:
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male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0202; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J.
Salmela; institutionCode: JES
d. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Urho Kekkonen National Park, Tyyroja; verbatimLatitude: 68.1384;
verbatimLongitude: 28.5723; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-6-4/7-1; habitat: spring brook,
old-growth spruce forest; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-
JS-2014-0228; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
e. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Urho Kekkonen National Park, Tyyroja; verbatimLatitude: 68.1384;
verbatimLongitude: 28.5723; verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS:
WGS84; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2014-8-5/9-16; habitat: spring brook,
old-growth spruce forest; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-
JS-2014-0384; recordedBy: J. Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
f. country: Finland; stateProvince: Lapponia kemensis pars orientalis; verbatimLocality:
Savukoski, Hannu Ollin vaara; verbatimLatitude: 67.8444; verbatimLongitude: 29.4689;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-8-7/9-19; habitat: spring brook, old-growth boreal forest;
individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: MYCE-JS-2013-0361; recordedBy: J.
Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European, so far reported only from Fennoscandia. The species (Fig. 10) was
described from North Sweden (Abisko) (Plassmann 1990), and later findings are also
from the northern part of the country (Kjaerandsen et al. 2007b). Only once recorded
from North Norway, Alta (Søli and Rindal 2012). Here reported from six sites in north
boreal Finland.
Figure 10.
Mycetophila haruspica Plassmann (Mycetophilidae), male, DIPT-JS-2014-0202.
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Ecology
The species has been collected from both subalpine and boreal ecoregions, but
detailed habitat descriptions are lacking in the literature. Finnish sampling sites are
small lotic water bodies surrounded by old-growth boreal forests.
Taxon discussion
The original description of M. haruspica is rather uninformative, barely sufficient for
identification purposes (Plassmann 1990, fig. 8). Proper redescription of this species is
a
b
c
d
Figure 11.
Mycetophila haruspica Plassmann (Mycetophilidae), DIPT-JS-2014-0146, details of male
hypopygium.
a: Gonostylus, lateral (inner) view. vl gst=ventral lobe of gonostylus, dl gst=dorsal lobe of
gonostylus.
b: Gonostylus, ventral view.
c: Aedeagus, dorsal view.
d: Ventral margin of gonocoxites.
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beyond the scope of this manuscript, but the morphology of the male hypopygium is
reviewed here. The ventral lobe of gonostylus (vl gst, Fig. 11) has a conspicuous,
helmet-like rounded lobe on dorsal margin and a small, hyaline spine next to it.
Another
prominent feature of vl gst is a long ventro-caudal spine, slightly bent beyond its mid-
point (Fig. 11). Dorsal lobe of gonostylus (dl gst, Fig. 11) has a narrow, rounded lobe
on the dorsal margin. The general shape of aedeagus is cordate, caudally tapering,
apex incised and apical corners with a pair of narrow, hyaline lobes (Fig. 11c). 9th
tergite is about as long as gonocoxite. Ventral margin of gonocoxites is undulating (Fig.
11d). Based on the male hypopygium, the species is easy to separate from the other
members of the vast genus Mycetophila.
Mycetophila gemerensis Ševčík & Kurina, 2011
Material
a. country: Finland; stateProvince: Ostrobothnia borealis pars borealis; verbatimLocality:
Rovaniemi, Savioja; verbatimLatitude: 66.2251; verbatimLongitude: 25.3668;
verbatimCoordinateSystem: decimal degrees; verbatimSRS: WGS84; samplingProtocol:
Malaise trap; eventDate: 2013-5-24/6-28; habitat: headwater stream, deciduous herb-rich
forest; individualCount: 1; sex: male; catalogNumber: DIPT-JS-2014-0189; recordedBy: J.
Salmela; identifiedBy: J. Salmela; institutionCode: JES
Distribution
European. The species (Fig. 12a, c) was recently described from the Gemer region in
the central part of Slovakia (Ševčík and Kurina 2011a). No other records are available.
New for the Fennoscandian fauna.
Ecology
The holotype male was collected from a "spring area in a young spruce forest, 1230 m
(above sea level)" Ševčík and Kurina 2011b). Finnish locality is a herb-rich riparian
forest, dominated by deciduous trees.
Taxon discussion
The species is quite close to M. lastovkai Caspers, 1984 (Fig. 12b, d), a species that
has been in the Nordic region reported from Sweden, Norway and Denmark
(Kjaerandsen 2015). Nordic material of M. lastovkai should be re-examined in order to
check the potential confusion with M. gemerensis.
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Acknowledgements
We thank Eerikki Rundgren and Jere Kahanpää for material, and Arto Saikkonen for his
help in the Muotkatunturi area. Petri Martikainen and Petri Piisilä are acknowledged with
gratitude for their help and expertise in the sampling of insects from Urho Kekkonen
National Park. Thanks to Jostein Kjaerandsen who helped the first author in the
identification of Mycetophila haruspica, and to Mitri Jauru who gave critical comments on
the manuscript. English text was checked by John Kramer.
Author contributions
JS wrote the manuscript, JS and KMK took the layer photos.
a
b
c
d
Figure 12.
Mycetophila gemerensis Ševčík & Kurina and M. lastovkai Caspers (Mycetophilidae), males.
a: M. gemerensis, habitus, DIPT-JS-2014-0189.
b: M. lastovkai, DIPT-JS-2014-0452, Romania, Vulcan Mt., 1420 m.a.s.l., 26.5.2014 Levente-
Peter Kolcsar leg.
c: M. gemerensis, hypopygium, dorsal view, DIPT-JS-2014-0189.
d: M. lastovkai, hypopygium, dorsal view, DIPT-JS-2014-0452.
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