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 Sciarioidea: Ditomyia fasciata?
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| nick upton |
Posted on 17-11-2020 19:10
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
c 10mm resting on the underside of a polypore fungus in accent woodland near Wickwar, Gloucestershire Uk on 14.10.20 Could this be Achyrolimonia decemmaculata based on these images? That species is recorded in the UK and from woods only 20 miles west of this site, and there are no others in this genus recorded for the Uk as far as I know, though there may be other Limoniidae from the Uk that this might be. nick upton attached the following image:  [125.19Kb] Edited by nick upton on 18-11-2020 16:02 Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 17-11-2020 19:10
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 17-11-2020 19:43
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 Super Administrator Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 10444 Joined: 22.10.10 |
A fungus gnat (Sciaroidea), not a crane fly. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 17-11-2020 21:09
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Ditomyia fasciata (Ditomyiidae) by the looks of it
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| nick upton |
Posted on 17-11-2020 22:14
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
OK many thanks. It's much bigger than other fungus gnats I've photographed, and Ditomyia fasciata certainly looks possible and is a specialist of polypore fungi. It's rarely recorded so far west, but is surely much overlooked.
Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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