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 : 54

BRADYSIA OCELLARIS (COMSTOCK, 1882)

Synonyms: garretti (Shaw, 1952); johannseni (Shaw, 1952) ; laffooni (Shaw, 1952) ; prothalliorum (de Meijere, 1946); rubicundula Frey, 1948; tritici (Coquillett, 1895) .

Literature: Edwards & Williams (1916): 259 [as Sciara tritici ]; Edwards (1925a): 539 [as Sciara pectoralis , misidentification]; Kloet & Hincks (1945): 350; Kloet & Hincks (1976): 31; Menzel (1998): 23 [all as Bradysia radicum , misidentification]; Freeman (1983b): 36 [as Bradysia tritici ]; O’Connor & Ashe (1991): 29 [as Bradysia tritici ]; Menzel (1998): 20; Menzel et al. (2003): 454.

Material examined: Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands , 1 male, 13.ix.1922, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Littlehampton, Sussex , 1 male, no date, Binns leg. ( HRI) . Kew Gardens, Greater London , 2 males, no date, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . London, Greater London , 1 female, no date, Baker leg. ( BMNH) . Merton, Greater London , 3 males, x.1911, C.B. Williams leg. ( BMNH) . Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, 7 males, 2 females, ii.1986, no collector detail ( BMNH) . Rillington , North Yorkshire, 4 males, 4 females, 4.vi.1915 (reared), Staunton leg. ( BMNH) . Terenure, Dublin City , Dublin, 1 male, 25.x.1989, Ashe leg. ( NMID) . Wellesbourne , Warwickshire, 4 males, 1.iv.1999, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) .

Ecological notes: found in gardens; glasshouses, buildings, soil of pot plants. Reared from decaying roots of young orchids; primula seedlings. ii, iv, vi, ix–x.