Phytosciara, 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 : 114-116

PHYTOSCIARA ( DOLICHOSCIARA ) FLAVIPES

(MEIGEN, 1804)

Synonyms: flavipes var. nigrithorax (Strobl, 1898) ; fugax (Grzegorzek, 1884) .

Literature: Haliday (1833): 148; Walker (1848): 108; Walker (1856): 55 [all as Sciara ]; Edwards (1925a): 534; Parmenter (1950): 110 [all as Phorodonta ]; Laurence (1994): 118; Freeman (1983b): 32; Menzel (1998): 22; Coldwell (1999): 25.

Material examined: Aber Mawr , Pembrokeshire, 1 male, 13.x.1987, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Alvecote Pools , Staffordshire, 1 male, 13.x.2001, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Badbury Rings , Dorset, 1 male, 1.vii.1966, Parmenter leg. ( BMNH) . Bagley Wood , Oxfordshire, 1 female, 21.v.1961, K.G.V. Smith leg. ( BMNH) . Ban-y-Gor Wood , Gloucestershire, 1 male, 12.ix.2002, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Barra , Western Isles, 1 female, 17.viii.−28.viii.1936, A.R. Waterston leg. ( NMS) . Bedgebury Pinetum , Kent, 1 male, 27.x.1968, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Betws-y-Coed , Conwy, 1 male, 24.ix.1966, Vane-Wright leg. ( BMNH) . Bix Bottom , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 23.ix.2000, Raper leg. ( PDGB) . Blaise Wood, Avon , 1 female, 24.vi.1949, d’Assis-Fonseca leg. ( NMS) . Blean Wood , Kent, 2 females, 24.vi.− 29.vi.1964; 6 males, 14.vii.1964; 1 male, 23.vii.1964; 1 female, 20.iv.1965; 1 female, 17.vi.1965; 2 males, 14.ix.1965; 11 females, 19.v.1973, all Parmenter leg. ( BMNH) . Bolt Wood, Stockerston , Leicestershire, 1 male, 24.viii.2003, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Bonhill , West Dunbartonshire, 1 female, 8.viii.1906; 1 female, 25.viii.1906; 1 male, 1 female, 27.viii.1907; 1 female, 7.ix.1907; 1 male, 5.vii.1909, all Malloch leg. ( NMS) . Bookham Common , Surrey, 2 males, 14.x.1945; 6 males, 1 female, 14.xi.1948; 2 males, 16.xi.1948; 3 males, 1 female, 12.xii.1948; 1 male, 8.iv.1950; 1 male, 8.x.1950; 1 male, 10.v.1964; 1 male, 12.v.1964, all Parmenter leg. ( BMNH) . Brackloon Wood , Mayo, 1 male, 4.viii.1911, Grimshaw leg. ( NMS) . Brancaster , Norfolk, 5 males, 1.vii.−15.vii.1988; 4 males, 2.ix.1988, all Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Brandon Marsh, Rytonon-Dunsmore, West Midlands , 2 males, 11.x.2001, Chandler leg. ( HRI) ; 3 males, 4 females, 22.viii.2002, Menzel & J.E. Smith leg. ( DEI, HRI) . Brithdir-Isaf , Gwynedd, 9 males, 13 females, 25.x.1971, Hutson leg. ( BMNH) . Brockenhurst , Hampshire, 1 male, 27.v.1910, Yerbury leg. ( UMO) ; 1 female, 23.v.1969, Hutson leg. ( BMNH) . Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire, 1 female, 6.v.1914, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Butley Thicks , Suffolk, 1 male, 5.vi.1910, Collin leg. ( UMO) . Canonteign Falls , Devon, 2 males, 22.vi.2002, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Catfield , Norfolk, 3 males, 13.x.−12.xii.1988, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Charleville Wood , Offaly, 1 male, 15.vi.1985, Chandler leg. ( PPWM) . Charterhouse , Surrey, 1 male, 26.vi.1967, Stubbs leg. ( PPCM) . Chippenham Fen , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 14.ix.1943, Collin leg. ( UMO) ; 1 female, 4.xi.1984, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Chipstead , Surrey, 1 male, 10.v.1965, Parmenter leg. ( BMNH) . Cleeve Heronry, Avon , 1 male, 11.ix.2000, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Clovelly , Devon, 3 males, 8.v.1936, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Coed Dol y Bebin , Gwynedd, 1 male, 12.vii.1976, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Coed y Brenin , Gwynedd, 1 female, 18.ix.1968, Vane-Wright leg. ( BMNH) . Collinpark Wood , Gloucestershire, 1 male, 3.ix.2002, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Comin Esgair Maen , Ceredigion, 1 male, 23.vii.1987, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Coneyberry Wood, Goring-on- Thames , Oxfordshire, 1 female, 17.v.1964, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Cors Caron , Ceredigion, 1 male, 27.x.1987, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cors Erddreiniog , Isle of Anglesey, 1 male, 27.vii.1988; 1 male, 20.x.1988, all Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cors Geirch , Gwynedd, 1 male, 28.vii.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cors Gorsgoch , Ceredigion, 1 male, 15.vii.1987, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Cors Graianog , Gwynedd, 1 male, 28.vii.1988; 1 male, 7.x.1988, all Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Coulsdon, Greater London , 1 male, 23.iii.1957, Parmenter leg. ( BMNH) . Cuckoo Wood, Downe, Greater London , 1 male, 25.ix.1966, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Cudham, Greater London , 2 males, 27.viii.1966, Vane-Wright leg. ( BMNH) . Dartmouth , Devon, 1 female, 5.vi.−12.vi.1920, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Dolgellau , Gwynedd, 1 female, 13.vi.1887; 1 male, 23.vii.1888; 1 male, 24.vii.1888, all Verrall leg. ( BMNH, UMO) . Dowrog Common , Pembrokeshire, 1 male, 29.ix.1987; 1 male, 13.x.1987, all Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Ewden Valley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire , 1 male, 21.ix.1971, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Farningham Wood , Kent, 1 male, 18.v.1974, Stubbs leg. ( PPCM) . Felden , Hertfordshire, 4 males, 21.xi.− 30.xi.1894, A. Piffard leg. ( BMNH) . Fernworthy Reservoir, Dartmeet , Devon, 1 male, 17.viii.1986, Banks & Vane-Wright leg. ( BMNH) . Ffrith , Flintshire, 1 male, 7.vi.−9.vi.1919, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Fisher’s Wood, Bromley, Greater London , 1 female, 8.viii.1966, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Folly Farm, Avon , 1 male, 12.ix.2000; 1 male, 28.ix.2001, all Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Frant , East Sussex, 1 male, 16.vi.1887, Verrall leg. ( BMNH) . Glencoyne Wood, Ullswater , Cumbria, 1 male, 1 female, 8.x.1971, Hutson leg. ( BMNH) . Glendalough , Wicklow, 1 male, 1 female, 13.xi.1984, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Glendalough State Forest , Wicklow, 2 females, 17.ix.1968, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Glengarriff State Forest , Cork, 1 male, 4.vii.1969, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Godmanchester , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 1 female, 29.v.2000, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Hackhurst Down, Surrey, 1 male, 27.viii.1966, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Hay Wood, Baddesley Clinton, Solihull, West Midlands , 1 male, 25.viii.2002, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Hayley Wood , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 31.v.1975, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Helston , Cornwall, 1 male, 11.v.1890, Verrall leg. ( UMO) . Hitch Wood , Hertfordshire, 1 male, 9.vii.1964, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) . Holt Forest , Dorset, 1 male, 13.v.1951, no collector detail ( BMNH) . Hollybush Hill, Stoke Poges , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 29.x.1967, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Horsley , Surrey, 1 male, 21.v.1966, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Hosey Common, Westerham , Kent, 1 female, 25.ix.1966, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Hothfield Bog , Kent, 1 female, 17.x.1970, Vane-Wright leg. ( BMNH) . Howth , Dublin, 1 male, 1 female, 17.vii.1971, Chandler leg. ( NMS, PPCM) . Ivybridge , Devon, 2 females, 18.v.1890, Verrall leg. ( BMNH, UMO) . Killarney , Kerry, 1 male, 5.viii.1940, Beirne leg. ( BMNH) . Killaun Bog , Offaly, 3 males, 7.ix.1999, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Kingsbury Water Park , Warwickshire, 1 male, 13.x.2001, Chandler leg. ( HRI) . Knebworth , Hertfordshire, 1 female, 12.x.1920; 1 male, 10.vi.1923, all Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Knole Park , Kent, 1 male, 12.xi.1967; 1 male, 16.x.1968, all Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Lancaut Nature Reserve , Gloucestershire, 1 male, 1 female, 5.ix.2002, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Leigh Wood, Avon , 1 male, 19.x.2000, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Lelant , Cornwall, 3 males, 2 females, 22.viii.− 31.viii.1912, Yerbury leg. ( BMNH) . Lephinmore, Argyll & Bute , 1 male, 1.x.1951, Pelham-Clinton leg. ( NMS) . Limpsfield Common , Surrey, 1 male, 4.vii.1937; 3 males, 24.v.−28.vi.1964, all Parmenter leg. ( BMNH) . Linwood, New Forest , Hampshire, 1 female, 18.iv.1954, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) . Llay , Wrexham, 1 male, 31.vi.1972, Stubbs leg. ( BMNH) . Llyn Coethlyn , Powys, 1 male, 11.x.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Llyn Gwynant , Gwynedd, 1 female, 13.viii.1914, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Lodore , Cumbria, 1 female, 21.vi.1889, Verrall leg. ( UMO) . Lord’s Wood, Avon , 1 male, 25.vi.2002, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Lough Conn , Mayo, 1 male, 20.ix.2000, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Lundy Island , Devon, 2 males, 2 females, 20.vii.−22.vii.1972, Lane leg. ( BMNH) ; 1 male, 26.vii.1972, Hutson leg. ( BMNH) . Lyndhurst , Hampshire, 1 male, 11.viii.1885, Verrall leg. ( UMO) ; 1 female, 27.iii.1901, Adams leg. ( UMO) ; 1 male, 5.v.1911, Collin leg. ( UMO) . Matley Bog, New Forest , Hampshire, 1 female, viii.1936, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Monk Wood, Avon , 1 male, 24.v.2000; 1 male, 22.ix.2000, all Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Monk’s Wood , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 10.vii.1972; 1 male, 25.vii.1972, all J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Murrough , Wicklow, 1 male, 8.v.1989, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Myross Wood, Leap , Cork, 1 male, 11.viii.1977, Chainey leg. ( BMNH) . New Forest , Hampshire, 5 females, 10.ix.−4.x.1896; 1 male, 25.iii.1897; 1 female, 5.v.1897; 1 female, 25.ix.1897; 1 female, 22.iv.1901; 1 female, 7.ix.1907; 1 female, 16.vii.1909; 1 female, 27.vii.1909; 3 males, 26.ix.− 28.ix.1909; 1 female, 17.x.1909; 1 female, 13.iv.1910; all Adams leg. ( NMS, BMNH) ; 1 male, 18.x.1937, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) ; 1 male, 12.v.1951, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) ; 1 male, 20.v.1966; 1 male, 16.v.1968; 2 males, 18.v.1968; 1 male, 31.v.1968, all Parmenter leg. ( BMNH) . Newmarket , Cambridgeshire, 1 female, 20.viii.1901, Verrall leg. ( UMO) . Nuremore Lake, Carrickmacross , Monaghan, 1 female, 19.vi.1979, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Oaken Wood, Barming , Kent, 1 male, 20.ix.1966, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Old Coulsdon, Greater London , 1 female, 9.ix.1954, Britten leg. ( BMNH) . One Tree Hill, Sevenoaks , Kent, 1 male, 5.v.1968, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Oxford University Museum, Oxford , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 1.xii.1920; 1 female, 2.xii.1920; 1 female, 3.i.1921; 1 female, 27.i.1921; 1 male, 4.x.1922, all Hamm leg. ( UMO) . Oxford University Parks, Oxford , Oxfordshire, 1 female, 9.vii.1931, Hamm leg. ( UMO) . Pamber Forest , Hampshire, 1 male, 20.vi.1967, Stubbs leg. ( PPCM) ; 1 male, 5.v.1971, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Pennington , Hampshire, 1 male, 12.v.1951, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) . Pentyrch , Cardiff, 1 female, 27.v.1968, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Penzance , Cornwall, 1 female, 14.v.1890, Verrall leg. ( UMO) . Peppercombe , Devon, 1 female, 14.vi.1989, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Pond Wood, Chislehurst, Greater London , 1 female, 7.xi.1966, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Reedham , Norfolk, 4 males, 27.x.1988, Foster & Procter leg. ( PBLN) . Rhinefields, New Forest , Hampshire, 1 male, 10.iv.1966, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) . Rhôs Rhydd , Ceredigion, 1 male, 8.x.1987, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Rickmansworth , Hertfordshire, 2 males, 29.vii.−31.vii.1919, Wallace leg. ( BMNH) . Ridley Wood , Hampshire, 1 female, 9.v.1964, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) . River East Lyn, Rockford , Devon, 1 male, 16.vi.1989, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Ryton Wood, Bubbenhall, Coventry, West Midlands , 1 male, 25.viii.2002, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Scilly Is , Cornwall, 1 female, iii.1902, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Sheviock , Cornwall, 2 males, 1 female, 9.ix.− 14.ix.1912, Yerbury leg. ( BMNH) . Shortwood , Gloucestershire, 1 male, 27.vi.2002, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Shotover , Oxfordshire, 2 males, 1 female, 5.viii.1918, Hamm leg. ( UMO) . Simonshyde , Hertfordshire, 1 female, 16.iv.1957, Colyer leg. ( BMNH) . Sontley Marsh , Wrexham, 1 male, 19.vii.1988, Holmes, Boyce & Reed leg. ( PPWM) . Stock Ghyll , Cumbria, 4 males, 2 females, 5.x.1971, Hutson leg. ( BMNH) . Stoke Poges , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 29.x.1967, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Stonybrow Wood, Rotherfield Park , Hampshire, 1 male, 2.x.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Strelley , Nottinghamshire, 1 male, 21.ix.1922, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Symond’s Yat , Herefordshire, 1 male, ix.1936, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Three Bridges , West Sussex, 1 female, 11.viii.1888; 2 males, 1.viii.1889; 1 male, 15.vi.1897, all Verrall leg. ( UMO) . Thundersley Glen , Essex, 1 male, 30.iv.1986, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Tickenham Hill, Avon , 1 male, 30.v.2001, Gibbs leg. ( PDGB) . Tocil Wood, Warwick University Campus , Coventry, Warwickshire, 1 male, 28.viii.2003, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Torc Falls, Killarney , Kerry, 1 male, 11.vii.1990, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Torcross , Devon, 1 female, 26.iv.1909, Verrall leg. ( UMO) . Tunbridge Wells , Kent, 1 female, 12.vi.1886, Verrall leg. ( BMNH) ; 1 male, iv.1925; 1 male, vi.1925, all Nurse leg. ( BMNH) . Valency Valley , Cornwall, 1 male, 1 female, 29.v.2000, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Vaynor Wood , Gwynedd, 1 male, 2.ix.1966, Vane-Wright leg. ( BMNH) . Warren’s Court Wood , Cork, 1 male, 11.vii.1994, Withers leg. ( PPWM) . Whichford Wood, Moreton-in-Marsh , Warwickshire, 3 males, 13.x.2001, J.E. Smith & Chandler leg. ( HRI) . Whitacre Heath , Warwickshire, 2 males, 13.x.2001, J.E. Smith & Chandler leg. ( HRI) . Whitmoor Vale , Hampshire, 1 male, 12.vii.1990, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Wolford Wood, Moreton-in-Marsh , Warwickshire, 1 male, 11.x.2001, Chandler leg. ( HRI) . Woodditton Wood , Cambridgeshire, 1 female, 12.v.1920; 1 male, 8.v.1929; 1 male, 6.v.1939, all Collin leg. ( UMO) . Wotton , Surrey, 1 male, 27.viii.1966, Chandler leg. ( NMS) . Wyre Forest , Worcestershire, 2 females, 14.ix.1922, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) ; 1 male, 2.viii.1974, Ackland leg. ( NMS) . Wytham Woods, Wytham , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 1 female, 21.viii.2002, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . No locality details [? Holywood, Down], 2 specimens [without abdomen], no date, Haliday leg. ( NMID) .

Ecological notes: very common in broad-leaved, mixed and carr woodland; arboretum of conifers; grazed wet heathland; wetlands especially fen and bog; also reed and sedge beds, valley and basin mire, pond and lakeside marshes; former gravel workings; calcareous grassland; parkland. iii–xii.