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 : 122

SCATOPSCIARA ( SCATOPSCIARA ) EDWARDSI

FREEMAN, 1983

Literature: Freeman (1983a): 167; Freeman (1983b): 40; Menzel (1998): 22.

Material examined: Baldock , Hertfordshire, 1 male, viii.1918, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Balmoral Forest , Aberdeenshire, 1 male, 1.viii.−4.viii.1937, Coe leg. ( BMNH) . Ditchley , Oxfordshire, 1 male, v.1937, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . How Hill , Norfolk, 1 male, 8.iv.1989, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Hoxne, River Waveney , Suffolk, 1 male, 1.iv.1990, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Market Weston Fen , Suffolk, 1 male, 12.v.1991, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Searles Farm, Reading, Berkshire , 1 male, 26.vi.2003, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Shepreth , Cambridgeshire, 5 males, 6 females, 23.ii.1918 [paratypes of Scatopsciara edwardsi ]; 2 males, ii.1918 [holotype and paratype of Scatopsciara edwardsi ] (all reared), all Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . West Harling Common , Norfolk, 1 male, 30.iii.1991, Withers leg. ( PPWM) .

Ecological notes: found in damp broad-leaved woodland; conifer plantations; peat hollows and fen; fen with sedge pools; river margin; water meadow. Reared from unnamed fungus and Auricularia mesenterica . ii–vi, viii, xi.