Lycoriella, FREY, 1942

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 : 113

LYCORIELLA ( LYCORIELLA ) LUNDSTROMI (FREY, 1948)

Literature: Freeman (1983a): 168; Freeman (1983b): 31; Menzel (1998): 22 [as Lycoriella lundstroemi (recte lundstromi )].

Material examined: Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 15.iii.1933; 7 males, 21.iii.−25.vi.1933 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . Bix Bottom , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 24.v.1934 (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Buckfastleigh , Devon, 1 male, 4.vii.− 5.vii.1968, Hutson leg. ( BMNH) . Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 15.vi.1931 (reared), Basden leg. ( BMNH) ; 3 males, 22.vii.−26.xi.1996; 1 male, 17.ix.−1.x.1999, all Ismay leg. ( HRI, PPCM) . Collum Green , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 6.xi.1932; 1 male, 15.xi.1932 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . Dropmore , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 10.v.1933 (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Epping Forest , Wake Valley, Essex, 1 male, 18.viii.1998, Dagley leg. ( PPCM) . Farnham Royal , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 24.v.1934 (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Fawley , Buckinghamshire, 3 males, 1.vi.−19.vi.1934; 1 male, 25.vi.1934 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . Glen of Drumloch , Moray, 1 male, 16.viii.1937, Coe leg. ( BMNH) . Greenlands , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, no date (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Leckford , Hampshire, 1 male, 17.iv.1982, S.A. Williams leg. ( PPCM) . Lye Hill , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 20.iii.1911; 2 males, 12.iii.− 19.iii.1916; 1 male, 17.iv.1920 (all reared), all Hamm leg. ( BMNH) . Marston , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 29.iv.1933 (reared), Basden leg. ( BMNH) . Mayford , Surrey, 2 males, 28.iv.1934; 2 males, 11.v.1934; 20 males, 14.iv.− 22.v.1934 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . Medmenham , Buckinghamshire, 11 males, 30.iv.− 18.v.1934 (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Moccas Park , Herefordshire, 1 male, 11.vi.2002, Godfrey leg. ( PPCM) . Temple , Berkshire, 2 males, 7.iv.1932; 1 male, 17.iii.1934 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . The Coombe , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 17.vi.1997, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . The Loke , Norwich, Norfolk, 1 male, 8.v.1987, Laurence leg. ( PBLN) . Warren Row , Berkshire, 2 males, 7.iv.1932; 3 males, 7.iv.− 22.iv.1932 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) .

Ecological notes: found in ancient beech and other broad-leaved woodland; garden; parkland. Reared from nests of brown rat, barn owl, linnet, sand martin, mole, house sparrow, rabbit. iii–x.