| Sub-family:EXORISTINAE |
Tribe: BLONDELIINI |
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| Synonyms: grandicornis (Zetterstedt, 1849 - Tachina)
[=amica: authors misident.]
[=podomyia: authors misident.]
[=nigricans: (Meade, 1892 - Frontina), misident.] |
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| Shaw & Ford (1991): - |
| Belshaw (1993): Hosts: in Britain Tipula nubeculosa (UMM). In Europe several records from Tipula sp.
British distribution: S.England (Bagley Wood in Oxford), Wales (Merioneth*), N.England (Windermere in Westmorland/Lancs) and N.Scotland (Ballater in Aberdeen; Grantown in Moray; Aviemore and Lynwilg Strathspey in Inverness).
Habitat: in Europe usually found in cool montane areas with pine forest (Tschorsnig, pers. comm.).
Flight period: early June to early August (6 records). A similar pattern in Germany - peaking in June (Tschorsnig, 1989). |
| Tschorsnig (1994): [Trichoparia]. Temperate Europe to Scotland and Northern Scandinavia; NW BW BY NB / A CH. In Central Europe from sea-level to approximately 1200 m. 1 generation from Mid May to Mid July a single specimen also in August (partial 2nd generation?). Not rare. Tipula spec. (Tipulidae). |
| JNCC Calypterate Review (1996): DISTRIBUTION A few localities, scattered throughout Britain: Berks (Bagley Wood, 1932), Merioneth, Westmorland/Lancs (Lake Windermere, 1884), Aberdeen (Ballater, 1942), Elgin (Grantown, 1943; Lynwilg, Strathspey, 1919), Easterness (Aviemore, 1919).
HABITAT Ancient woodland, but mainly cool damp montane areas with Pine forests.
ECOLOGY The larvae are parasitoids of larvae of the Cranefly Tipula nubeculosa (Diptera, Tipulidae), which probably live in dead wood or in the forest floor. Adults from June to August.
STATUS Uncertain. There are no recent records of this species.
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: 6-7mm shiny brown/green with some dusting |
| GBGRB: P |
GBNI: - |
IE: - |
GBCI: - |
| BRC #: 3602 |
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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