Epidapus, HALIDAY, 1851

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 : 95

EPIDAPUS ( EPIDAPUS ) ALNICOLA (TUOMIKOSKI, 1957)

New to British list.

Material examined: Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 1.vi.−8.vi.1999, Ismay leg. ( PPCM) . Epping Thicks, Epping Forest , Essex, 1 male, viii.1999, Dagley leg. ( PPCM) . Old Slade , Buckinghamshire, 5 males, 21.iv.−12.v.1972 (reared), Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Plas Islyn Bog , Conwy, 1 male, 5.viii.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Ryton Wood, Bubbenhall, Coventry, West Midlands , 1 male, 25.viii.2002, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Temple, Berkshire , 1 male, 3.iv.1934 (reared), Basden leg. ( BMNH) . West End Common, Esher , Surrey, 1 male, 17.vii.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Woodwalton Fen , Cambridgeshire, 21 males, 7.vi.1940, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) .

Ecological notes: found in broad-leaved and carr woodland; fen; rotten birch log with ants Myrmica ruginodis . Reared from rotten elm log and rotting wood. iv–viii.