Bradysia, WINNERTZ, 1867

Menzel, Frank, Smith, Jane E. & Chandler, Peter J., 2006, The sciarid fauna of the British Isles (Diptera: Sciaridae), including descriptions of six new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (1), pp. 1-147 : 61-62

BRADYSIA SCABRICORNIS TUOMIKOSKI, 1960

Literature: Laurence (1994): 116 [in part as Bradysia triseriata , misidentification]; Menzel (1998): 20.

New to Irish list.

Material examined: Black Cliff , Monmouthshire, 1 male, 9.vii.1985, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Blackditch Wood , Wicklow, 1 male, vi.1989, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Bolt Wood, Stockerston , Leicestershire, 1 male, 24.viii.2003, Menzel leg. ( DEI) . Coed Tycanol , Pembrokeshire, 1 male, 10.v.−20.v.1999; 1 male, 10.vi.− 27.vi.1999, all Levey & Pavett leg. ( PPCM) . Corfe Common , Dorset, 1 male, 29.vi.1998, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Cors Erddreiniog , Isle of Anglesey, 1 male, 27.vii.1988; 1 male, 6.x.1988, all Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Epping Forest , Essex, 1 male, ix.- x.1999, Dagley leg. ( PPCM) . Falls of Tarnash , Moray, 1 male, 9.vii.1936, Coe leg. ( BMNH) . Gearagh , Cork, 1 male, 10.x.1990, de Courcy Williams leg. ( DEI) . Gors Llwyn, Neath / Port Talbot , 1 male, 28.vi.1989, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Greywell Fen , Hampshire, 1 male, 5.viii.2003, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Gwenfro , Isle of Anglesey, 3 males, 27.vii.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Hartslock , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 14.v.2000, Raper leg. ( PPCM) . Knebworth , Hertfordshire, 1 male, 18.iii.1928, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Llyn Ystumllyn , Gwynedd, 1 male, 26.vii.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Reedham , Norfolk, 1 male, 12.viii.−26.viii.1988, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Rhôs Llawr Cwrt , Ceredigion, 1 male, 29.vii.1987, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Symond’s Yat , Herefordshire, 1 male, ix.1936, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Tresillian , Cornwall, 1 male, 7.vii.1983, Chandler leg. ( PPWM) . Walberswick , Suffolk, 1 male, 1.vi.− 15.vi.1988, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Windsor Forest, Berkshire , 1 male, 5.viii.1995, Brock leg. ( PPCM) . Woodwalton Fen , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 24.v.1940, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) .

Ecological notes: common in ancient oak and beech forest, alder carr and other broad-leaved woodland; wetlands including wet meadow with peat, Juncus and Glyceria , fens, ombrotrophic mire, reed and sedge beds; grassland and scrub with stream; calcareous grassland. Reared from mole nest. iii, v–x.