Psychoda phalaenoides (Linné, 1758)

Omelková, Markéta & Ježek, Jan, 2012, A new species of the genus Trichomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae) and new faunistic data on non-phlebotomine moth flies from the Podyjí NP and its surroundings (Czech Republic), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2), pp. 505-533 : 524

Psychoda phalaenoides (Linné, 1758)

Published records. Havraníky, Hnanice, Horní Břečkov, Čížovský rybník pond, Ledové sluje caves, Pod Šobesem, Široká pole fields, Vraní skála rock, Faltýskův Mlýn, Liščí skála rock, Braitava letohrádek country seat ( JEŽEK et al. 2005).

Material examined. Vranov nad Dyjí, Braitava (4), ♀, ix., Inv. No. 5372.

Comment. A Holarctic polyvoltine species (with several generations per year), very common: known from lowlands to mountains. Adults sometimes become enclosed in sheaths of Arum maculatum together with Psycha grisescens (Tonnoir, 1922) and some other pollinator species. The larvae are saprobiontic.