Mycomya cinerascens

Mycomya cinerascens
Mycomya cinerascens North Wales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Mycetophilidae
Genus: Mycomya
Species:
M. cinerascens
Binomial name
Mycomya cinerascens
(Macquart, 1826)

Mycomya cinerascens is a Palearctic[1] species of 'fungus gnats' in the family Mycetophilidae. Mycomya cinerascens is found in forest or wooded areas where the larvae develop in fruiting bodies of Stereum, Thelephora terrestris and Cortinarius sp..Besides fruiting bodies the species has been collected with emergence traps over beech logs and stumps, alder and spruce stumps.[2]

  • Microhabitat. Belgium
    Microhabitat. Belgium

References

  1. ^ 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
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