Swedish records of Mycetophila fungorum
Original and used names: Tipula fungorum De Geer, 1776:361 (see Fig. 1). = Mycetophila punctata Meigen, 1804:91. = Mycetophila cunctans Wiedemann, 1817:68.
Swedish sources: Mycetophila cunctans: Zetterstedt 1838:864 [TO]; Mycetophila punctata var. a: Zetterstedt 1852:4200 [JÄ]; Zetterstedt 1852:4200 [SK]; Zetterstedt 1852:4200 [VG]; Mycetophila punctata var. a+b: Zetterstedt 1852:4365 [ÖG]; Mycetophila punctata var. b+c: Zetterstedt 1852:4200 [SK, GO, ÖG, JÄ]; Mycetophila punctata var. d: Zetterstedt 1852:4200 [SK, ÖG, TO]; Mycetophila punctata var. e: Zetterstedt 1852:4200 [GO, VG]; Mycetophila punctata: Zetterstedt 1855:4914 [HA]; Mycetophila punctata var. c: Zetterstedt 1855:4914 [SM]; Fungivora F. punctata: Tullgren & Wahlgren 1920–22:469 [Sweden]; Fungivora M. punctata: Wahlgren 1921:194 [SK, Swedish Lapland]; Fungivora fungorum: Tjeder 1948:224 [BO]; Mycetophila fungorum: Plassmann 1975c:28 [LU]; Plassmann 1975b:52 [LU]; Plassmann 1978b:153 [LU]; Plassmann 1979:386 [LU]; Plassmann 1980b:186 [LU]; Hackman et al. 1988:270 [JÄ]; Chandler (2005) [Sweden]; Kurina et al. 2005:480 [SM, ÖG, VG]; Mycetophila fungorum: Kjærandsen et al. 2007:82 [Wide — •SK•HA•SM•ÖL•GO•ÖG•VG•BO•SÖ•UP•JÄ•LU•TO•]; Jakovlev, Kjærandsen & Viklund 2008:39 [SÖ].
World distribution: Holarctic + Oriental; widely distributed in Europe.
Remarks: A very common and highly polyphagous species, with larvae recorded from fruit bodies of more than 120 species of various fungi (Yakovlev 1994).