Scythropochroa radialis, LENGERSDORF, 1926

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 : 135-136

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https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00190.x

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10545417

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Scythropochroa radialis
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SCYTHROPOCHROA RADIALIS LENGERSDORF, 1926 View in CoL

Literature: Freeman (1983b): 22; Chandler (1987): 204; Freeman (1987): 197; Menzel (1998): 23; Chandler et al. (2002): 124.

Material examined: Ashtead Common , Surrey, 2 males, 6.vii.1994, Brock leg. ( HRI) . Beinn Eighe , Highland Region, 1 male, 10.vi.1984, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 7.vi.−21.vi.1995; 1 male, 21.vi.−5.vii.1995; 1 male, 20.vii.−2.viii.1995; 3 males, 1 female, 8.vi.−18.vi.1999, all Ismay leg. ( HRI) ; 1 male, 2 females, 10.v.1998 (reared), Chandler leg. ( NMS, PPCM) . California Country Park, Berkshire , 1 male, 1 female, 19.vi.1998, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Chippenham Fen , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 2.vii.1985, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Comrie, Perth & Kinross , 1 male, 20.vi.1996 (reared), MacGowan leg. ( NMS) . Conon Island , Highland Region, 1 male, 18.vi.1976, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Edford Wood , Somerset, 1 female, 2.viii.1985, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Epping Forest , Essex, 1 male, 14.vi.−20.vi.1995, Dagley leg. ( HRI) ; 5 males, 26.vi.2000, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) ; 1 male, 28.vi.2000, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Grantown-on-Spey , Highland Region, 4 males, 16.vi.1989, Chandler leg. ( NMS, PPCM) . How Hill , Norfolk, 1 male, 27.v.1989, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Knole Park , Kent, 4 males, 23.vi.1979, Chandler leg. ( NMS, PPCM) . Loch Chon / Loch Ard, Stirling, 1 female, 22.vi.1999, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Loch Katrine , Stirling, 1 male, 15.vi.1992, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Moy, Tyrone , 1 male, 24.ix.−30.ix.1984, Boston leg. ( PPCM) . Nethy Bridge , Highland Region, 1 female, 6.vii.1922; 1 female, 12.viii.1922, all King leg. ( BMNH) . Old Buckenham , Norfolk, 1 male, 11.vi.1993, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Old Slade , Buckinghamshire, 2 females, 7.v.1972 (reared), Chandler leg. ( NMS, PPCM) . Peasmarsh, Hurtwood , Surrey, 9 males, 18 females, 17.ii.−27.iii.1975 (reared), Richards leg. ( BMNH) . Sandy Warren, Bedfordshire , 1 male, 10.vii.1996; 2 males; 4.vi.1998; 2 males, 24.vi.1998, all J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Santon Downham , Suffolk, 1 male, 5.viii.1970, no collector detail ( BMNH) . Sedlescombe , East Sussex, 1 male, no date, Roper leg. ( PPCM) . The Loke, Norwich , Norfolk, 1 male, 17.vi.1987, Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . West Harling Common , Norfolk, 2 males, 20.iv.−12.v.1981 (reared), Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Whitmoor Vale , Hampshire, 1 male, 12.vii.1990, Merrifield leg. ( PPCM) . Woolcombe Wood , Dorset, 1 male, 3.vii.1998, Chandler leg. ( NMS) .

Ecological notes: common in all types of woodland; heathland; wetlands including fens and water meadows; grassland at woodland fringe; acid grassland and wet woodland; parkland. Reared from rotten elm, birch and beech wood; also found on dead pines. iv–ix.

NMS

National Museum of Scotland - Natural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sciaridae

Genus

Scythropochroa

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