Swedish records of Mycomya (Mycomya) islandica
Original and used names: Mycomya (Mycomya) islandica Väisänen, 1984:126.
Swedish sources: Mycomya (Mycomya) islandica: Väisänen 1984:126 [TO]; Chandler (2005) [Sweden]; Mycomya (Mycomya) islandica: Kjærandsen et al. 2007:29 [Alpine — •TO•].
World distribution: Holarctic; Nordic in Europe, known from Russia N (Murmansk district), Finland, Sweden, Iceland and probably Svalbard (accepted by Gammelmo & Søli 2006). The Finnish and Swedish localities are situated above the tree-line, while the Russian from the Kola peninsula (Bjäloguba) is situated in coniferous forest (Väisänen 1984).
Remarks: This is an arctic–alpine to northern boreal species. In the Nearctic region also distinctly northern, known from the Yukon Territory, Manitoba and Eastern Greenland (Väisänen 1984). So far not known from northern Siberia but might be circumpolar.