Bradysia nocturna, TUOMIKOSKI, 1960

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 : 53-54

BRADYSIA NOCTURNA TUOMIKOSKI, 1960

Literature: Edwards (1938): 201 [in part as Sciara (Neosciara) brunnipes , misidentification]; Chandler et al. (1996): 258 [in part as Bradysia brunnipes , misidentification]; Chandler et al. (2002): 122.

Material examined: Alconbury , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 3.v.1976, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Annahala bog, Gearagh , Cork, 1 male, 22.v.1990, de Courcy Williams leg. ( NMID) . Austwick , North Yorkshire, 1 male, 18.x.1930, Cheetham leg. ( BMNH) . Aversley Wood , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 24.iv.1988, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Bagpiper’s Tump, West Wood , Herefordshire, 1 male, 10.x.1998, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Baldock , Hertfordshire, 1 male, vii.1918, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Ballyteige , Wexford, 1 male, 3.vi.1987, J.P. O’Connor leg. ( NMID) . Beinn Eighe , Highland Region, 1 male, 10.vi.1984, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Black Cliff , Monmouthshire, 1 male, 9.vii.1986, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Brampton , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 8.v.1977; 1 male, 13.v.1989, all J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Bransgore , Hampshire, 1 male, 10.viii.1933 (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Brodie Castle , Moray, 1 male, 23.x.2000, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire, 2 males, 2 females, 5.vi.−11.vi.1931 (reared); 2 males, 9.vi.1939, all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) ; 1 male, 9.x.1990, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) ; 2 males, 30.viii.−15.ix.1995; 1 male, 5.viii.−31.viii.1996; 1 male, 9.x.−26.xi.1996; 7 males, 26.vi.−7.vii.1999, all Ismay leg. ( HRI, PPCM) . Cambridge , Cambridgeshire, 11 males, 3 females, 14.vi.−15.ix.1934, Basden leg. ( NMS) . Carie, Rannoch, Perth & Kinross , 1 male, 23.x.1990, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Carreg Cennen Castle, Carmarthen , 1 male, 14.x.1995, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Chatsworth Deer Park , Derbyshire, 1 male, 11.x.1991, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Coed Tremadog , Gwynedd, 1 male, 14.vii.1976, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Cogley Wood , Somerset, 1 male, 19.x.1986, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Coombe Abbey Country Park , Coventry, Warwickshire, 1 male, 28.viii.2003, J.E. Smith leg. ( HRI) . Cotterdale , North Yorkshire, 1 male, 22.ix.1956, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Dancer’s End , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 8.iv.1984, Merrifield leg. ( PPCM) . Denton, Greater Manchester, 3 males, 7 females, 15.iv.1923 (reared), Newton leg. ( BMNH) . Derwent Ings , North Yorkshire, 1 male, 4.viii.1989, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Dinton Pastures Country Park, Berkshire , 1 male, 21.viii.1993; 1 male, 7.x.1998, all Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Dubh Ghleann, Glen Quoich , Aberdeenshire, 2 males, 21.vii.2000, Godfrey leg. ( PPCM) . Farnham Royal , Buckinghamshire, 5 females, 13.v.−15.v.1931 (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Foxhole , Highland Region, 1 male, 26.x.2000, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Gearagh , Cork, 1 male, 22.v.1990, de Courcy Williams leg. ( DEI) . Glenariff , Antrim, 1 male, 12.xi.1986, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Goring-on-Thames , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 29.x.1962, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Greenlands , Buckinghamshire, 23 males, 12 females, 13.v.−17.x.1933 (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Hambleden Weir, Berkshire , 9 males, 1 female, 7.iv.−23.iv.1932 (reared), Basden leg. ( NMS) . Harpenden , Hertfordshire, 1 male, 7.v.1934; 1 male, 30.vii.1934; 1 male, 8.viii.1934, all C.B. Williams leg. ( BMNH) . Hemingford , Cambridgeshire, 1 male, ix.1938, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Invertromie Wood, Insh Marshes , Highland Region, 1 male, 30.v.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Loch Assynt , Highland Region, 1 male, 24.vii.1911, Yerbury leg. ( BMNH) . Loch an Eilein , Highland Region, 1 male, 29.v.1973, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Loch Morlich , Highland Region, 1 male, 14.vii.1936, Coe leg. ( BMNH) . Mahon Falls , Waterford, 1 male, 3.vii.1988, J.P. O’Connor leg. ( NMID) . Marston , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 25.xii.1932; 24 males, 14 females, 25.xii.1932 – 19.v.1933 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . Martin Mere , Lancashire, 1 male, 30.iv.1996, Underwood leg. ( PPCM) . Medmenham , Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 15.vi.1931; 4 males, 1 female, 12.v.−19.v.1932 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . Old Buckenham Fen , Norfolk, 1 male, 9.v.1990, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Old Lodge Warren , East Sussex, 1 male, 9.x.1996, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Pass of Killiecrankie, Perth & Kinross , 1 male, 18.x.1971, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Penallt, Carmarthen , 1 male, 14.x.1995, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Peppercombe , Devon, 1 male, 14.vi.1984, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Portholme Meadow, Brampton , Cambridgeshire, 3 males, 3.vi.1976, J.H. Cole leg. ( PJCB) . Radwell , Hertfordshire, 1 male, 22.v.1921, Edwards leg. ( BMNH) . Rotherfield Park , Hampshire, 1 male, 3.vii.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Salisbury Plain Training Area, Warminster , Wiltshire, 1 male, 3.vii.2003, Ismay & Schulten leg. ( UMO) . Scotland Fen , Suffolk, 1 male, 10.xi.1996, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Selsdon, Greater London , 1 male, 26.iv.1930; 1 male 10.iv.1939, all Coe leg. ( BMNH) . Sheep Leas, West Horsley , Surrey, 1 male, 16.vi.1999, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Skenfrith , Monmouthshire, 1 male, 12.vi.1997, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Spartum Fen , Oxfordshire, 1 male, 1.vi.1991, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Stonybrow Wood, Rotherfield Park , Hampshire, 1 male, 23.x.2002, Chandler leg. ( PPCM) . Temple, Berkshire , 1 male, 22.iv.1932; 2 males, 5 females, 21.iv.− 22.iv.1934; 2 females, 7.iv.−16.vi.1934, all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . Warren Row, Berkshire , 1 male, 19.ii.1932; 3 males, 1 female, 21.ii.−19.iii.1932 (all reared), all Basden leg. ( BMNH, NMS) . West Harling Common , Norfolk, 1 male, 28.x.1989, Withers leg. ( PPWM) .

Ecological notes: common in all types of woodland; calcareous grassland; wetlands including fen, bog, raised mire, lake and wildfowl reserve, water meadows with hedges and gravel pits; parkland; garden; sand dunes. Reared from nests of moles (several rearings), common shrew, red squirrel, rabbit and from old wasp’s nest. ii–xi.