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 : 124-125

SCATOPSCIARA ( SCATOPSCIARA ) NEGLECTA MENZEL &

MOHRIG, 1998

Literature:? Walker (1848): 109;? Walker (1856): 55 [all as Sciara pusilla ; misidentification]; Freeman (1983b): 40 [as Scatopsciara pusilla , misidentification]; Laurence (1994): 118; Laurence (1997a): 85 [all in part as Scatopsciara pusilla ]; Menzel (1998): 22.

New to Irish list.

Material examined: Alvecote Pools , Staffordshire, 1 male, 13.x.2001, Chandler leg. ( HRI) . Badger Wood , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, x.1998, C.W. Plant leg. ( PPCM) . Bix Bottom , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 23.ix.2000, Raper leg. ( PDGB) . Bradfield Wood , Suffolk, 1 male, 16.viii.−22.viii.1991, Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Bromley, Greater London , 1 male, 2.x.1966, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire, 2 males, 15.ix.−4.x.1995; 1 male, 8.vii.−27.vii.1996, all Ismay leg. ( PPCM) ; 1 male, 21.iv.1998, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . California Country Park, Berkshire , 1 male, 6.viii.1999; 1 male, 29.vi.2002, all Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Clovelly , Devon, 1 male, 8.v.1936, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Delamere, Cheshire , 2 males, 23.v.1924, Britten leg. ( BMNH) . Dinton Pastures Country Park, Berkshire , 1 male, 3.x.1993, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Epping Forest , Essex, 1 male, viii.1999; 1 male, ix.1999, all Dagley leg. ( PPCM) . Gearagh , Cork, 1 male, 7.vi.1990, de Courcy Williams leg. ( NMID) . Glen Affric , Highland Region, 8 males, v.1992 (reared), MacGowan leg. ( NMS) . Hartslock , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 6.v.2000, Raper leg. ( PDGB) . Hickling , Norfolk, 2 males, 1988, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Hobb’s Quarry , Gloucestershire, 1 male, 4.ix.2002, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Lackham Park , Wiltshire, 1 male, 2.vii.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Lancaut Nature Reserve , Gloucestershire, 1 male, 5.ix.2002, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Lion Wood, Redditch , Worcestershire, 1 male, 10.iv.2003, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Lockhaugh Bank Wood, Derwent Valley, Tyne & Wear , 1 male, 26.vii.− 13.viii.1990, Jessop leg. ( PBLN) . Mid Quoich , Aberdeenshire, 1 male, 22.ix.2000, Godfrey leg. ( PPCM) . Moccas Park , Herefordshire, 1 male, 11.vi.2002, Godfrey leg. ( PPCM) . Paramoor Wood , Cornwall, 1 male, 7.vii.1983, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Sheep Leas, West Horsley , Surrey, 1 male, 15.vi.1966 (reared), Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Sutton Park, Birmingham, West Midlands , 1 male, 7.iv.2003, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . The Loke, Norwich , Norfolk, 1 male, 15.viii.-. 16.viii.1988; 1 male, 29.ix.−3.x.1992, all Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Warboys Wood , Cambridgeshire, 4 males, v.1931, Fryer leg. ( BMNH) . West End Common, Esher , Surrey, 2 males, 19.x.2001; 1 male, 17.vii.2002, all Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Weston , Hertfordshire, 1 male, ix.1931, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Whitacre Heath , Warwickshire, 1 male, 13.x.2001, Chandler leg. ( HRI) .

Ecological notes: very common in all types of woodland; heath and parkland; wooded river bank; old hedges; sedge bed; water meadows; old sand and gravel workings; calcareous grassland; gardens. Reared from the fungi Phaeolus schweinitzii on pine and Trametes versicolor . iv–x.