Acnemia nitidicollis

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Acnemia nitidicollis
Acnemia nitidicollis, Trawscoed, North Wales, Sept 2014 (17317414376).jpg
Acnemia nitidicollis North Wales
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Mycetophilidae
Genus: Acnemia
Species:
A. nitidicollis
Binomial name
Acnemia nitidicollis
(Meigen, 1818)
Synonyms
  • Leia nitidicollis Meigen, 1818

Acnemia nitidicollis is a Palearctic [1] species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae.The larvae of Acnemia are mycetophagous in rotting wood. [2]

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Mycetophilidae Family of flies

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Diadocidiidae Family of flies

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<i>Bolitophila</i> Genus of flies

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Ditomyiidae Family of flies

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Allocotocera is a genus of flies in the family of Mycetophilidae. Two of the species are found in Europe.

<i>Bolitophila cinerea</i> Species of fly

Bolitophila cinerea is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Bolitophilidae.

<i>Boletina griphoides</i> Species of fly

Boletina griphoides is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae.The larvae of B. griphoides are thought to be mycetophagous in the ground litter. Adults sometimes appear in enormous numbers in spring in a wide variety of habitats.

<i>Boletina trispinosa</i> Species of fly

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Coelosia tenella Species of fly

Coelosia tenella is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae. It is associated with Stereum.

<i>Diadocidia ferruginosa</i> Species of fly

Diadocidia ferruginosa is a Palearctic species of fungus gnat in the family Mycetophilidae. They live as larvae in long dry silken tubes under bark or in rotten wood and probably feed on fungal mycelia or spores. Also associated with Peniophora.

<i>Boletina gripha</i> Species of fly

Boletina gripha is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnats' in the family Mycetophilidae. It is found in a wide variety of habitats from wooded streams to wetlands and open moorland. Reared from brown rot of spruce stump, spruce log bearing loose bark and decaying wood of pine. Larvae have been on the surface of decaying wood covered with Resinicium bicolor, from soil in pine forest and from fruiting bodies of Suillus bovinus.

<i>Brachypeza bisignata</i> Species of fly

Brachypeza bisignata is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae. Reared from puffballs (Lycoperdales).

<i>Boletina trivittata</i> Species of fly

Boletina trivittata is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae. Members of this genus are found in a wider variety of habitats from wooded streams to wetlands and open moorland. Adults have been obtained in emergence traps in a range of situations including rotting wood and soil litter.

<i>Brevicornu foliatum</i> Species of fly

Brevicornu foliatum is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae. Members of this genus are found in a wider variety of habitats from wooded streams to wetlands and open moorland. Larvae develop in dead wood and in soil litter, feeding probably on microfungi.

Leptomorphus is a genus of fungus gnats in the family Mycetophilidae. There are about 8 described species in Leptomorphus.

<i>Exechia</i> Genus of flies

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Pseudopamera nitidicollis is a species of dirt-colored seed bug in the family Rhyparochromidae. It is found in Central America and North America.

<i>Acnemia</i> Genus of flies

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. A. M. Hutson, D. M. Ackland and L. N. Kidd (1980) Diptera - Nematocera. Mycetophilidae (Bolitophilinae, Ditomyiinae, Diadocidiinae, Keroplatinae, Sciophilinae and Manotinae).Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 9 Part 3. Royal Entomological Society. http://www.royensoc.co.uk/sites/default/files/Vol09_Part03.pdf