01531nas a2200145 4500008004100000245018600041210007100227300001000298490001300308520090400321100002101225700001601246700001801262856010501280 2018 eng d00aLejops vittatus (Meigen, 1822), Suomelle uusi kukkakärpänen (Diptera: Syrphidae). [Lejops vittatus (Meigen, 1822), a hoverfly new to the Finnish insect fauna (Diptera: Syrphidae)]0 aLejops vittatus Meigen 1822 Suomelle uusi kukkakärpänen Diptera  a5–70 v23[2017]3 a

Three specimens of the rare hoverfly Lejops vittatus (Meigen, 1822) were found during the first days of July 2016 on a seashore meadow near the Husö Zoological Station, Åland, Finland. The species is new to Finland. L. vittatus is very local and mostly rare in Northern Europe, with less than twenty known localities—mostly single specimen records—in Sweden and Denmark. The flies were observed flying among clubrushes (Bolboschoenus sp., pr. B. maritimus) near the water margin of a grazed coastal meadow. The salinity of the Baltic Sea in this area is around 5-6 ‰ and tides are negligent. These records represent the hitherto northernmost occurences of Lejops vittatus. The presence of several specimens on potentially suitable breeding habitat suggests that the species has a local population on the Åland Islands.

1 aKahanpää, Jere1 aKakko, Iiro1 aHaarto, Antti uhttp://www.luomus.fi/sites/default/files/sahlbergia/2017/sahlbergia_23_2_Kahanp%C3%A4%C3%A4_etal.pdf