Swedish records of Mycetophila gratiosa
Original and used names: Mycetophila gratiosa Winnertz, 1864:941.
Swedish sources: Fungivora M. gratiosa: Wahlgren 1921:197 [ÅN]; Mycetophila gratiosa: Kjærandsen et al. 2007:100 [Doubtful].
Remarks: No specimens could be located in the Wahlgren collection at ZMLU to confirm this species. M. gratiosa has largely been mixed with another newly described species,Mycetophila deflexa Chandler, 2001, widely distributed in the Palaearctic region but not yet found in Sweden. All European records are marked as doubtful by (Chandler 2005). One of the apparently undescribed species of Mycetophila found in Sweden confirms well with figure 69,7 of (Zaitzev 2003) for M. gratiosa, but differs from figure 69,2 of the same species. A review of this species group is needed.