Exechia spinuligera

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Exechia spinuligera
Exechia spinuligera, Trawscoed, North Wales, Dec 2015 - Flickr - janetgraham84.jpg
Exechia spinuligera North Wales
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Mycetophilidae
Genus: Exechia
Species:
E. spinuligera
Binomial name
Exechia spinuligera
Lundstrom, 1912

Exechia spinuligera is a Palearctic [1] species of fungus gnat in the family Mycetophilidae. Exechia contaminata is chiefly or exclusively associated with Russula and Lactarius . [2]

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References

  1. Informatiion from Fauna Europaea
  2. Jakovlev, J. 2011: Fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) associated with dead wood and wood growing fungi: new rearing data from Finland and Russian Karelia and general analysis of known larval microhabitats in Europe. Entomol. Fennica 22: 157–189. pdf