Entomologica Fennica


Abstracts of Volume 15 Number 1, 2004

Polevoi, A. & Hedmark, K. 2004: New species of the genus Boletina Winnertz (Diptera:Mycetophilidae) from Fennoscandia. - Entomol. Fennica 15: 23-33.

Nine new species of the fungus-gnat genus BoletinaWinnertz (B. falcata sp. n., B. hedstroemi sp. n., B. struthioides sp. n., B. kivachiana sp. n., B. fennoscandica sp. n., B. lapponica sp. n., B. subtriangularis sp. n., B. atridentata sp. n. and B. cordata sp. n.) are described from Russian Karelia, Finland and Sweden. The descriptions are based on recently collected specimens as well as on the old material deposited in the collection of the Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland. Most of the collecting localities are situated in old growth reservations or habitats suggested to protection. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of genitalia are given. Ecological data and information on closely related species are provided.


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