Scatopsciara, EDWARDS, 1927

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 : 121

SCATOPSCIARA ( SCATOPSCIARA ) CALAMOPHILA

FREY, 1948

Literature: Laurence (1994): 118 [in part as Scatopsciara vivida ]; Laurence (1996): 87 [as Scatopsciara tenax , misidentification].

New to British and Irish list.

Material examined: Chigwell Row Wood, Chigwell Row , Essex, 1 male, 1 female, 23.v.−27.v.2002; 2 females, 18.vi.2002; 2 females, 8.x.2002; 1 female, 16.x.2002; 1 female, 22.x.2002, all Ismay & Schulten leg. ( DEI, UMO) . Epping Forest , Essex, 1 male, 11.ix.1998; 3 males, viii.1999, all Dagley leg. ( PPCM) . Gearagh, Cork , 1 male, 7.iv.1990, de Courcy Williams leg. ( NMID) . North Ronaldsay , Orkney, 3 males, 10.ix.1989, Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Ryton Wood, Bubbenhall, Coventry, West Midlands , 1 male, 25.viii.2002, Menzel leg. ( DEI) . Sedlescombe , East Sussex, 1 male, 2.vi.1999, Roper leg. ( PPRS) . Stallode Wash , Suffolk, 10 males, 24.vi.− 8.vii.1988, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Stronsay , Orkney, 1 male, 21.v.1988, Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Temple, Berkshire , 1 male, 1.v.1934 (reared), Basden leg. ( BMNH) . The Loke, Norwich , Norfolk, 1 male, 8.v.1987; 1 male, 18.vi.1987; 1 male, 15.vii.1987; 1 male, 10.viii.1987; 1 male, 20.ii.1988; 1 male, 19.vii.1988; 1 male, 15.v.−18.v.1992; 5 males, 18.v.−23.v.1992; 1 male, v.1992; 1 male, 26.vi.−30.vi.1992; 1 male, 21.viii.1992; 1 male, 24.ix.−3.x.1992; 1 male, 24.x.−25.x.1987; 2 males, 27.vi.−30.vi.1993, all Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Windsor Forest, Berkshire , 1 male, iv.1933 (reared), Donisthorpe leg. ( BMNH) .

Ecological notes: found in ancient oak and beech forest and other broad-leaved woodland; ancient woodland with oak, hazel and bramble; heathland; marshland; garden; grassland at woodland fringe; near shore. Reared from spruce bark and rotten horse chestnut wood. ii, iv–x.