Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Fungus Gnats - About 75% of the species are associated with fungal fruiting bodies,
including Myxomycetes, about 20% with rotting wood - these live on the surface or
under bark, only a few penetrate the wood; spore-feeding larvae spin webs on bracket
and encrusting fungi, and produce cocoons on or near the substrate. Very few are
known to be host specific.
Bolitophilidae
Bolitophila (Bolitophila) cinerea Meigen* - Has been reared from Panaeolus campanulatus,
Hypholoma spp., Pholiota spp., and other fungi, not all saproxylic.
Bolitophila (Bolitophila) saundersii (Curtis)* - Has been reared mainly from Hypholoma
fasciculare, but also the non-wood-rotters Panaeolus campanulatus, Lepista
personata and others, not all saproxylic.
Bolitophila (Bolitophila) tenella Winnertz - Most rearing records from wood-decay agarics,
including Armillaria, Pholiota and Hypholoma.
Bolitophila (Cliopisa) hybrida (Meigen)* - Develops primarily in Paxillus involutus but has
been reported from a variety of other fungi.
Bolitophila (Cliopisa) maculipennis Walker - Polyphagous fungus feeder including Pholiota.
Bolitophila (Cliopisa) occlusa Edwards* - Has been reported developing in Oligoporus
(Tyromyces) lacteus, O.caesius and O.stipticus.
Bolitophila (Cliopisa) pseudohybrida Landrock* - Has been reared from the non-wood-decay
Clitocybe cerrusata and Flammulina velutipes as well as the wood-rotter
Physisporinus sanguinolentus; not infrequent in Britain, and in the Antrim Glens.
Diadocidiidae
Diadocidia valida Mik - RDB2. Larvae in mucous tubes under rotting logs.
Diadocidia ferruginosa (Meigen)* - Larvae under bark, in long dry silk tubes; reared from
Peniophora.
Diadocidia spinosula Tollet* - Britain & Ireland. Presumed to be associated with wooddecay.
Ditomyiidae
Ditomyia fasciata (Meigen) - Nationally Scarce. Reared from the fruiting bodies of a wide
variety of hard polypore wood-decaying fungi, eg Bjerkandera adusta and Trametes
versicolor, but also the non-wood-rotter Hydnellum spongiosipes.
Symmerus annulatus (Meigen)* - Larvae in rotting timber; reared from Hypoxylon
rubiginosum. Ireland: Charleville Woods.
Symmerus nobilis Lackschewitz - Adults around rotten logs; probably develop in dead wood
like Symmerus annulatus. Only known British site is Glen Coiltie in Inverness-shire.
Keroplatidae
Cerotelion striatum (Gmelin)* - Larvae under rotting logs, especially encrusted with
polyporaceous or other encrusting fungi.
Keroplatus testaceus Dalman - Nationally Scarce. Larvae have been found under a
mucilaginous net on underside of logs, usually with polypore fungi; has been reared
from cocoons on rotten wood. Frequency of finds and range appear to be expanding.
Rocetelion humerale (Zetterstedt) - RDB1. Larvae have been found on the surface of a
resupinate white fungal fruiting body with a porous spore-bearing surface on a birch
log; the larvae had spun loose strands of silk with drops of fluid on the spore-bearing
surface of the polypore; in native Scots pine woodland. Scotland & unsubstantiated
reports from Gloucestershire and Somerset.
Macrorrhyncha flava Winnertz* - Reared from rotting wood; web; adults nectar at flowers;
Ireland.
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