Lycoriella ingenua

• Main Authors: Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen, Mohrig, Werner
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Sciaridae; Lycoriella; Lycoriella ingenua; Antarctic; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Australian Antarctic Territory; Casey Station; Menzel; Tuomikoski; Champignons; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5986297; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5986297

Lycoriella ingenua (Dufour, 1839) (Fig. 5 A–E) Sciara ingenua Dufour, 1839 [Dufour (1839): 29 –31, plate I, figs 20–28]. Common synonyms: Lycoriella caesar (Johannsen, 1929); Lycoriella mali (Fitch, 1856); Lycoriella solani (winnertz, 1871). = Sciara womersleyi Séguy, 1940 syn. n. [Séguy (1940): 210, fig 6]. we studied 2 females collected from the Kerguelen Islands on 21.xi.1929, deposited in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide (3 slides #29-003430-29003432, marked as syntypes). when compared with European specimens and taking into account the corresponding body size, it is a junior synonym of L. ingenua. Literature: Fitch (1856): 484 (as Molobrus mali); winnertz (1871): 855 (as Sciara solani); Tuomikoski (1960): 79, 84, figs 18 e, 20 e (as Lycoriella solani); Steffan (1972): 429–431, figs. 1 a–h (both as Lycoriella solani); Steffan (1973a): 357–358; Steffan (1974): 47 (both as Lycoriella mali); Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 393–396; Menzel & Müller (2009): 43–48, figs 1– 5; Mohrig et al. (2013): 211–212. Material studied. NEW SOUTH WALES: 5 males, 11.v.1978, George’s Hall, Sydney, ex mushroom compact, ASCT00054761 (PWMP) / 54762/54763 (ASCU) / 54765 (PWMP)/54770 (ASCU), leg. A. D. Clift; 1 male, 13.vii.1979, Rydalmere, ex lab culture, ASCT00049035, leg. B.J. Loudon (ASCU); 3 males, 6.xi.1979, Maralya, ex mushroom compost, ASCT00054753/54755/54756, leg. A.D. Clift (ASCU). TASMANIA: 1 male, 5.v.1984, Devonport, hyacinth bulbs, 7207, 82844, leg. unknown (TAIC). AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY: 5 males, 2004, Casey Station, Waste Water Treatment Depot, leg. S. Richards (PABM). The species was reared and described from larvae feeding on champignons (Boletus imbricans). It is common in mushroom farms, greenhouses, rotting potatoes and a range of other crops and is common in open landscapes. It is phytosaprophagous and mycetophagous, and also feeds on plasmodia of slime moulds. Females are digenic (Steffan 1973a). The species is reported as common and with stable populations on subantarctic islands and has been ...