Pseudolycoriella paludum, (FREY, 1948)

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 : 118

PSEUDOLYCORIELLA PALUDUM (FREY, 1948)

Synonyms: leucocera (Mohrig & Menzel, 1990) ; polliciformis ( Freeman, 1990) .

Literature: Freeman (1990): 54 [as Corynoptera polliciformis ]; Menzel (1998): 22; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 474.

Material examined: Bedford Purlieus , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 20.vi.1985; 1 male, 23.vi.1985, all J.H. Cole leg. [including holotype of Corynoptera polliciformis ] ( BMNH, PJCB) . Brockenhurst , Hampshire, 1 male, 10.vii.1907, King leg. ( BMNH) . Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 8.vi.−18.vi.1999, Ismay leg. ( HRI) . Charlbury , Oxfordshire, 6 males, 4.vii.1936, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Coed Gorswen, Gwynedd, 1 male, 6.vii.1974, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Monk’s Wood, Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 22.vi.1975, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Pingle Wood , Warboys , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 25.vi.1988, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) .

Ecological notes: found in ancient beech and other broad-leaved woodland. vi–vii.