British Insects: the Families of Diptera
| British Insects: the Families of Diptera | |
~Mycetophilidae.
Adult insects. Slender-bodied; stilt-legged. Antennae 8–16 segmented; ‘simple’. Antennae not aristate. Ocelli present. Eyes not meeting. The maxillary palps 3–5 segmented; drooping. Wings without a discal cell; without a sub-apical cell; without a closed anal cell. The leading edge veins markedly stronger than the rest (?). Wings with the lower calypter much reduced or absent. Tibiae apically spurred. Feet without a triple pad. Abdomen constricted basally.
Larvae and pupae. Larvae terrestrial; mycophagous; eucephalic. Pupa without a puparium.
Classification. Suborder Nematocera; Division Bibionomorpha; Superfamily Sciaroidea.
British representation: Genera 1; 16 species.
Illustrations: • Bolitophila (from Walker).
To view the illustrations with detailed captions, go to the interactive key. This also offers full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. British insects: the families of Diptera. Version: 9th April 2007. http://delta-intkey.com’.
