Swedish records of Sciophila hirta
Original and used names: Sciophila hirta Meigen, 1818:251. = Sciophila pilosula Zetterstedt, 1838:860.
Swedish sources: Sciophila hirta: Zetterstedt 1838:860 [Southern Sweden]; Sciophila pilosula: Zetterstedt 1838:860 [Swedish Lapland]; Sciophila hirta: Zetterstedt 1852:4133 [SK]; Tullgren & Wahlgren 1920–22:467 [Sweden]; Wahlgren 1921:162 [SK, UP]; Hackman et al. 1988:239 [ÅS]; Kurina 2003a:62 [UP]; Chandler (2005) [Sweden]; Kurina et al. 2005:483 [SM] Sciophila hirta: Kjærandsen et al. 2007:38 [Wide — •SK•SM•BO•SÖ•UP•ÅS•]; Jakovlev, Kjærandsen & Viklund 2008:36 [SÖ].
World distribution: Holarctic; in Europe unclear, but confirmed recordings are available from Russia N (Karelia), NW and C, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland (Kjærandsen, Kurina & Ólafsson 2007), Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, and the Czech Republic.
Remarks: Some records in Europe need confirmation after Chandler (2001) reinstated S. parviareolata Santos Abreu, 1920, previously regarded as a junior synonym of S. hirta. S. parviareolata has shown to be mainly westerly in Europe (Chandler 2005).