Bolitophila cinerea

Bolitophila cinerea is a Palearctic (Ireland to South Siberian Mountains) species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Bolitophilidae.

Bolitophila cinerea
Bolitophila cinerea North Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Suborder:
Nematocera
Infraorder:
Bibionomorpha
Superfamily:
Sciaroidea
Family:
Bolitophilidae
Genus:
Bolitophila
Species:
B. cinerea
Binomial name
Bolitophila cinerea
Meigen, 1818[1]

The eucephalic larvae of Bolitophila are mycetophagous and live in decaying wood or other organic debris overgrown by fungal plant substrates. The pupa lacks a puparium. Bolitophila cinerea feeds on a variety of Hypholoma and Pholiota species also on species of Agaricus, Amanita, Armillaria, Boletus, Collybia, Flammulina, Hebeloma, Lacrymaria and Marasmius.[2] Adults have been obtained in emergence traps in a range of situations including rotting wood and soil litter.[3]

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References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. A. M. Hutson, D. M. Ackland and L. N. Kidd (1980) Diptera - Nematocera. Mycetophilidae (Bolitophilinae, Ditomyiinae, Diadocidiinae, Keroplatinae, Sciophilinae and Manotinae).Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 9 Part 3. Royal Entomological Society.
  3. Jakovlev, J. 2011: Fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) associated with dead woodand wood growing fungi: new rearing data from Finland and Russian Karelia and general analysis of known larval microhabitats in Europe. Entomol. Fennica 22: 157–189. pdf
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