Mycetophila formosa
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Mycetophila formosa North Wales | |
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Species: | M. formosa
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Mycetophila formosa Lundstrom, 1911
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Mycetophila formosa is a Palearctic [1] species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae. Mycetophila formosa is found in forest or wooded areas where the larvae develop in Phlebia radiata and moist, strongly decayed wood of birch and spruce log bearing Trechispora hymenocystis.[2]
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Microhabitat.Germany
References
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Jakovlev, J. 2011: Fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) associated with dead wood and 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