Bradysia pallipes, (FABRICIUS, 1787)

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 : 54-55

BRADYSIA PALLIPES (FABRICIUS, 1787)

Synonyms: agilis ( Winnertz, 1867) ; brunnipes (Meigen, 1804) ; conica (Grzegorzek, 1884) ; dispar ( Winnertz, 1867) ; engadinica ( Winnertz, 1867) ; fallax ( Winnertz, 1867) ; kowarzii (Grzegorzek, 1884) ; laeta (Grzegorzek, 1884) ; luctuosa ( Winnertz, 1867) ; morbosa ( Winnertz, 1867) ; picipes (Zetterstedt, 1838) ; rufipodex (Frey, 1945) ; rufipodex var. elysiaca (Frey, 1945) ; spreta ( Winnertz, 1867) ; tristis ( Winnertz, 1867) ; umbratica (Zetterstedt, 1851) .

Literature:? Walker (1848): 105 [as Sciara brunnipes and Sciara annulata , misidentification];? Walker (1856): 52 [as Sciara brunnipes ]; Edwards (1925a): 538 [in part as Sciara brunnipes and Sciara annulata , misidentification];? Edwards (1938): 201 [as Sciara (Neosciara) umbratica ]; Chandler (1978): 209 [as Bradysia umbratica , misidentification]; Skidmore, Limbert & Eversham (1978): 76; Freeman (1983b): 34; Skidmore (1991): 149; Laurence (1994): 118 [in part]; Laurence (1996): 87 [in part]; Laurence & James (1997): 166; Chandler et al. (1996): 258 [in part]; Menzel (1998): 20; White et al. (2000): 207 [all as Bradysia brunnipes ]; Heller (2004): 248 [ brunnipes (Meigen) as synonym to pallipes (Fabricius) ].

Material examined: Ardscull Mote, Kildare , 1 male, 23.vi.1975, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Beddington, Greater London , 4 males, 14.iii.1935 (reared), Parmenter leg. ( BMNH) . Bone Mill Hollow, Cambridgeshire , 1 male, 29.vi.1996, Drake leg. ( NMS) . Cadair Idris, Gwynedd , 1 male, 13.xi.1993, Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Cors Erddreiniog, Isle of Anglesey , 1 male, 20.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Dyffryn Gwaun, Pembrokeshire , 1 male, 12.x.1987, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Eday , Orkney, 1 male, 1.vi.1988, Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Epping Forest , Essex, 1 male, 29.iii.1999; 1 male, 20.ix.−10.x.1999, all Dagley leg. ( HRI, PPCM) . Felden , Hertfordshire, 1 male, 19.xi.1896, A. Piffard leg. ( BMNH) . Glen Gairn , Aberdeenshire, 1 male, 17.vii.1997, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Glendurgan , Cornwall, 1 male, 3.x.1983, Chandler leg. ( PPWM) . Glyn Ceiriog , Wrexham, 2 males, 26.vi.−7.vii.1995, Brock leg. ( HRI) . Goonvrea , Cornwall, 1 male, 2.vii.−3.vii.1983, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Goring-on-Thames , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 24.iv.1962; 1 male, 21.vi.1963, all J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Harlesden, Greater London , 5 males, 20.vi. 1894, Austen leg. ( BMNH) . Hickling , Norfolk, 3 males, no date, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Ingleborough , North Yorkshire, 2 males, 13.v.1921, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . King’s Walden , Hertfordshire, 1 male, 26.iv.1964, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) . Leckford Estate , Hampshire, 1 male, 4.x.1970, Stubbs leg. ( PPCM) . Letchworth , Hertfordshire, 1 male, viii.1917, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Llyn Ystumllyn , Gwynedd, 1 male, 19.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Lopham Fen , Norfolk, 1 male, 22.ii.1990, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Meall nan Tarmachan, Perth & Kinross , 8 males, 8 females, 2.x.−20.x.2002 (reared), Bland leg. ( NMS) . Newlaw Moss, Dumfries & Galloway, 1 male, 20.viii.1979, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Newmarket , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 21.iii.1897, Verrall leg. ( BMNH) . Oxford University Parks, Oxford , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 1 female, 18.iv.1913; 1 male, 29.iv.1914, all Hamm leg. ( BMNH) . Pont Aber, Carmarthen , 1 male, 12.x.1995, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Rhôs-y-gad, Isle of Anglesey, 1 male, 5.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Taplow , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 1 female, 26.iv.1968, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . The Loke, Norwich , Norfolk, 1 male, 20.iv.1987; 3 males, 26.iv.1987; 1 male, 21.iv 1988, all Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Thornham Magna , Suffolk, 1 male, 23.ii.1990, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . No locality details, Kent, 3 males, vi.1928, Theobald leg. ( BMNH) .

Ecological notes: common in broad-leaved and carr woodland; wetlands including fens, water meadows and sedge beds; grazed meadow; grassland; gardens; open montane habitats; mushroom beds. Reared from cow and sheep dung. ii–xi.