Swedish records of Exechia fusca
Original and used names: Mycetophila fusca Meigen, 1804:91. = Mycetophila lateralis Meigen, 1818:266. = Mycetophila guttiventris Meigen, 1830:301.
Swedish sources: Mycetophila fusca: Zetterstedt 1838:865 [SK]; Mycetophila lateralis: Zetterstedt 1838:865 [SK, TO]; Mycetophila fusca: Zetterstedt 1852:4235 [SK, JÄ]; Mycetophila guttiventris: Zetterstedt 1852:4230 [SK, JÄ, NB, TO]; Zetterstedt 1855:4915 [HA, UP]; Mycetophila fusca: Zetterstedt 1860:6569 [LY]; Mycetophila guttiventris: Zetterstedt 1860:6568 [SK]; Exechia lateralis, Poppius, Lundström & Frey 1917:668 [LU]; Exechia fungorum [misid.]: Tullgren & Wahlgren 1920–22:468 [Sweden]; Exechia fungorum (fusca) [misid.]: Wahlgren 1921:188 [SK, ÅN, Swedish Lapland]; Exechia fusca: Plassmann 1975c:28 [LU]; Plassmann 1975b:52 [LU]; Plassmann 1978b:150 [LU]; Hackman et al. 1988:312 [Sweden]; Chandler (2005) [Sweden]; Kjærandsen 2005:24 [SK, ÖL, ÖG, JÄ, NB]; Exechia fusca: Kjærandsen et al. 2007:65 [Wide — •SK•HA•ÖL•ÖG•VG•SÖ•UP•JÄ•ÅN•VB•NB•LY•LU•TO•]; Jakovlev, Kjærandsen & Viklund 2008:38 [SÖ].
World distribution: Holarctic; widely distributed in Europe.
Remarks: A very common and abundant species. Misidentification of Exechia fungorum (De Geer) [= Mycetophila fungorum] corrected according to Wahlgren (1921:188, fig. 112).