Cratyna (Cratyna), (CRATYNA)

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 : 86-87

CRATYNA (CRATYNA) ULIGINOSA (LENGERSDORF, 1929)

Literature: Menzel (1998): 21; Withers (2002): 114.

Material examined: Alice Holt Forest , Hampshire, 1 male, 10.v.1984, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Alvecote Pools , Staffordshire, 2 males, 13.x.2001, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Blaen Glaswen , Powys, 1 male, 16.vi.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Boundless Copse , Surrey, 2 males, 26.vii.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire, 2 males, 28.v.− 9.vii.1996, Ismay leg. ( PPCM) ; 1 male, 4.x.1999; 1 male, 23.x.2001, all Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Bwlch y Dwr , Gwynedd, 1 male, 14.vii.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cadair Idris , Gwynedd, 2 males, 19.vi.1997; 1 male, 4.ix.1993, all Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Catfield , Norfolk, 1 male, 29.ix.1988, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Cefn Grwhyd, Neath / Port Talbot , 1 male, 4.x.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Chobham Common , Surrey, 1 male, 16.x.1984, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Collinpark Wood , Gloucestershire, 1 male, 3.ix.2002, Gibbs leg. ( PPCM) . Cors Caranod , Ceredigion, 1 male, 25.vi.1987; 1 male, 23.vii.1987, all Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cors Farlais, Carmarthen , 1 male, 5.x.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cors Goch , Isle of Anglesey, 1 male, 18.vii.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cors Graianog , Gwynedd, 1 male, 28.vii.1988; 2 males, 7.x.1988, all Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cors-y-Llyn , Powys, 3 males, 10.x.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Denny Wood, New Forest , Hampshire, 1 male, 17.iv.1954, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) . Epping Forest , Essex, 1 male, 27.v.1999, Dagley leg. ( PPCM) ; 1 male, 17.x.2000, Merrifield leg. ( PPCM) . Hafod Garregog , Gwynedd, 1 male, 13.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Hay Wood, Baddesley Clinton, Solihull, West Midlands , 26 males, 25.viii.2002, Menzel & J.E. Smith leg. ( DEI, HRI) . Hickling , Norfolk, 2 males, x.1988, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) ; 2 males, 16.iv.1989, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Killaun , Offaly, 2 males, vi.2000, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Llyn Creiniog , Denbighshire, 1 male, 13.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Llyn Pencraig , Gwynedd, 1 male, 27.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Llynoedd Ieuan , Ceredigion, 1 male, 18.vi.−20.vii.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Malham Tarn , North Yorkshire, 1 male, 24.vi.−28.vi.1982, Disney leg. ( PPWM) . Migneint , Conwy, 1 male, 14.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Nûg , Conwy, 5 males, 12.x.1988; 1 male, 27.x.1988, all Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Oakley Wood, Bishops Tachbrook , Warwickshire, 1 male, 14.x.2001, Chandler leg. ( HRI) . Rhôs Cilcennin , Ceredigion, 1 male, 24.ix.1986, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Rhôs Rydd , Ceredigion, 1 male, 8.x.1987, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Rhôsgoch , Powys, 2 males, 17.vii.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Rhôsili Down, Swansea / Abertawe, 1 male, 3.x.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Rotherfield Park , Hampshire, 2 males, 2.x.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Roydon Common , Norfolk, 1 male, 5.vi.1993, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Ryton Wood, Bubbenhall, Coventry, West Midlands , 1 male, 12.x.2001, Chandler leg. ( HRI) ; 1 male, 25.viii.2002, Menzel leg. ( DEI) . Stokeford Heath , Dorset, 1 male, 20.v.2001, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Trawsfynydd , Gwynedd, 2 males, 14.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Tuddenham Fen , Suffolk, 1 male, 20.x.1990, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Vicarage Bog , Wrexham, 1 male, 12.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Waggoner’s Wells , Hampshire, 2 males, 8.x.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . West End Common, Esher , Surrey, 1 male, 19.x.2001; 1 male, 16.vii.2002, all Chandler leg. ( PPCM) .

Ecological notes: very common in broad-leaved, mixed and carr woodland; conifer plantations; sandy, damp, grazed wet and humid heathland; wetlands including fens, mires, bogs, Cladium and Phragmites beds and Sphagnum kettlehole; open montane habitats. iv–x.