Isoneuromyia semirufa

Dylan Rees
Isoneuromyia semirufa North Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Keroplatidae
Genus: Isoneuromyia
Species: I. semirufa
Binomial name
Isoneuromyia semirufa
(Meigen, 1818)

Isoneuromyia semirufa is a Palearctic [1] species of 'fungus gnat' in the family Mycetophilidae. The members of this genus [Orfelia] are, as larvae, web spinners chiefly associated with dead wood where they feed on fungal hyphae. They could be also be found in turf, grass tussocks, under logs and boulders, in worm tunnels, among mosses and liverworts.[2]

References

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