Boletina gripha
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Boletina gripha North Wales | |
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Boletina gripha Dziedzicki, 1885
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Boletina gripha is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnats' in the family Mycetophilidae.[1] It is found in a wide variety of habitats from wooded streams to wetlands and open moorland.[2] Reared from brown rot of spruce stump, spruce log bearing loose bark and decaying wood of pine. Larvae have been on the surface of decaying wood (white rot) covered with Resinicium bicolor, from soil in pine forest and from fruiting bodies of Suillus bovinus.[3]
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Resinicium bicolor
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. [1]
- ^ 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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