Boletina griphoides

Boletina griphoides
	Boletina griphoides North Wales wing length 2.5-3 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Mycetophilidae
Genus:	Boletina
Species:	B. griphoides
Binomial name
	Boletina griphoides; (Edwards, 1925)

Boletina griphoides is a Palearctic^[1] species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae. The larvae of B. griphoides are thought to be mycetophagous in the ground litter. Adults sometimes appear in enormous numbers in spring in a wide variety of habitats.^[2]

Male terminalia.
Habitat.Ireland.

References

^ Fauna Europaea
^ 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. http://www.royensoc.co.uk/sites/default/files/Vol09_Part03.pdf Archived 2018-03-24 at the Wayback Machine

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[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. http://www.royensoc.co.uk/sites/default/files/Vol09_Part03.pdf Archived 2018-03-24 at the Wayback Machine

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