Trichosia (Trichosia), (TRICHOSIA)

Menzel, Frank, Smith, Jane E. & Chandler, Peter J., 2006, The sciarid fauna of the British Isles (Diptera: Sciaridae), including descriptions of six new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (1), pp. 1-147 : 138-139

TRICHOSIA (TRICHOSIA) GLABRA (MEIGEN, 1830)

Literature: Edwards (1925a): 537 [as Sciara ]; Freeman (1983b): 20; Freeman (1990): 51 [all as Trichosia (Leptosciarella) ]; Menzel (1998): 23.

Material examined: Badger Wood , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 1.v.−31.v.1998, C.W. Plant leg. ( PPCM) . Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire, 2 males, 28.iv.− 10.v.1995; 1 male, 7.vi.−21.vi.1995; 1 male, 21.vi.− 5.vii.1995; 1 male, 17.v.−25.v.1999; 1 male, 1.vi.− 8.vi.1999, all Ismay leg. ( HRI, PPCM) . Bwlch y Ddeufaen , Conwy, 1 male, 5.vii.1987, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Chigwell Row Wood, Chigwell Row , Essex, 2 males, 23.v.−27.v.2002; 10 males, 2 females, 4.vi.2002; 1 female, 11.vi.2002; 2 males, 18.vi.2002; 1 male, 20.vi.2002; 5 males, 28.vi.2002, all Ismay & Schulten leg. ( DEI, UMO) . Dulicht , Highland Region, 1 female, 19.vii.1997, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Epping Forest , Essex, 1 female, 24.v.1999, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Hartslock , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 14.v.2000, Raper leg. ( PDGB) . Ipswich , Suffolk, 1 male, 10.v.1898 (reared), Morley leg. ( BMNH) . Letchworth , Hertfordshire, 2 males, 1 female, vi.1917; 1 female, 18.vi.1934, all Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Loch Assynt , Highland Region, 1 male, 5.vi.1911, Yerbury leg. ( BMNH) . Monk’s Soham , Suffolk, 1 male, 8.v.1914, Morley leg. ( BMNH) . Monk’s Wood , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 5.vi.1972; 1 male, 15.vi.1972; 1 male, 31.vii.1972, all J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Newmarket , Cambridgeshire, 1 female, 5.vi. 1885, Verrall leg. ( UMO) . Richmond Park, Greater London , 1 female, 6.vi.1992, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . The Loke, Norwich , Norfolk, 2 males, 15.v.−18.v.1992; 4 males, 15.v.−25.v.1992; 1 male, 18.v.−22.v.1992, all Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Wicken Fen , Cambridgeshire, 2 males, 14.v.1992, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Wychwood , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 20.v.−16.vi.1989, Porter leg. ( PPCM) . Wytham Wood , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 19.xii.1967 (reared), Paviour-Smith & Elbourn leg. ( BMNH) .

Ecological notes: common in broad-leaved woodland; ancient woodland with oak, hazel and bramble; heathland (heather) with oak and holly; moorland flushes; fen meadows and ditches; ancient parkland; garden. Reared from larvae in galleries of the beetle Ischnomera caerulea . iv–vii.