| Sub-family:EXORISTINAE |
Tribe: BLONDELIINI |
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| Synonyms: blanda (Fallen, 1820 - Tachina) |
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| Shaw & Ford (1991): - |
| Belshaw (1993): Hosts: in Europe single records from Tipula hortorum and the non-British Nephrotoma pratensis (L.).
British distribution: S.England (Wilts, Hants, Cambs, Norfolk, Suffolk and Surrey*), Midlands (Hereford and ?Salop), Wales (Monmouth*), N.England (Westmorland) and N.Scotland.
Flight period: July and August (19 records). In Europe June to October (Herting, 1960). |
| Tschorsnig (1994): [Trichoparia]. Europe to Scotland and Northern Scandinavia; NS NW BW BY NB / A CH. Early June to End October especially August probably several generations. Altogether not rare normally however only individuals. Nephrotoma pratensis L Tipula nubeculosa Meig. (Tipulidae). |
| JNCC Calypterate Review (1996): DISTRIBUTION Widespread, but sparse throughout England (Somerset, Wilts, Hants, Surrey, Berks, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Hereford, ?Salop, Westmorland), Wales (Monmouth), and Northern Scotland.
HABITAT Damp, cool, ancient, broadleaved woodland.
ECOLOGY The larvae are parasitoids of larvae of the Cranefly Tipula hortorum Linnaeus (Diptera, Tipulidae), which probably live in dead wood or in the forest floor. Adults in July and August.
STATUS A few post-1960 records are available.
THREAT Clearance of woodland for agriculture and intensive forestry; the culling of damaged trees with rot holes, and the removal of dead wood.
MANAGEMENT Maintain the levels of old and damaged trees, and retain dead wood in situ (fallen trunks and branches, stumps, dead limbs on living trees); maintain open rides and clearings in woods, with a rich and varied flora. |
| Shaw & Ford (2000): - |
| Comments: - |
| GBGRB: P |
GBNI: - |
IE: - |
GBCI: - |
| BRC #: 3601 |
BENHS: 2.1 - |
GB Status: |
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| Legend: GBGRB=Great Britain, GBNI=Northern Ireland, IE=Ireland,
GBCI=Channel Islands (P=present or -=absent); BENHS indicates whether the BENHS
collection has it and which draw/column it is in. Status is taken from the JNCC
Calypterate Review (1996) and the JNCC Recorder package (1997). Synonyms were
taken from a number of sources but most notably the most recent Checklist of
British Diptera by Peter Chandler. |
| Acknowledgements: Many thanks to all the authors who let me
use their information to construct this database. If there are spelling mistakes
they were introduced by me during transcription and should not reflect on the
original authors. |
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