Scythropochroa radialis LENGERSDORF 1926
Creators: name: Menzel, Frank
name: Smith, Jane E.
name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Scythropochroa
Scythropochroa radialis

description: SCYTHROPOCHROA RADIALIS LENGERSDORF, 1926   
 Literature: Freeman (1983b): 22; Chandler (1987): 204; Freeman (1987): 197; Menzel (1998): 23; Chandler et al. (2002): 124.   
 Material examined: Ashtead Common, Surrey, 2 males, 6.vii.1994, Brock leg. (HRI). Beinn Eighe, Highland Region, 1 male, 10.vi.1984, J.H. Cole leg. (PJCB). Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, 1 male, 7.vi.−21.vi.1995; 1 male, 21.vi.−5.vii.1995; 1 male, 20.vii.−2.viii.1995; 3 males, 1 female, 8.vi.−18.vi.1999, all Ismay leg. (HRI); 1 male, 2 females, 10.v.1998 (reared), Chandler leg. (NMS, PPCM). California Country Park, Berkshire, 1 male, 1 female, 19.vi.1998, Chandler leg. (PPCM). Chippenham Fen, Cambridgeshire, 1 male, 2.vii.1985, Chandler leg. (PPCM). Comrie, Perth & Kinross, 1 male, 20.vi.1996 (reared), MacGowan leg. (NMS). Conon Island, Highland Region, 1 male, 18.vi.1976, Chandler leg. (NMS). Edford Wood, Somerset, 1 female, 2.viii.1985, Chandler leg. (PPCM). Epping Forest, Essex, 1 male, 14.vi.−20.vi.1995, Dagley leg. (HRI); 5 males, 26.vi.2000, J.H. Cole leg. (PJCB); 1 male, 28.vi.2000, Chandler leg. (PPCM). Grantown-on-Spey, Highland Region, 4 males, 16.vi.1989, Chandler leg. (NMS, PPCM). How Hill, Norfolk, 1 male, 27.v.1989, Withers leg. (PPWM). Knole Park, Kent, 4 males, 23.vi.1979, Chandler leg. (NMS, PPCM). Loch Chon / Loch Ard, Stirling, 1 female, 22.vi.1999, Chandler leg. (PPCM). Loch Katrine, Stirling, 1 male, 15.vi.1992, J.H. Cole leg. (PJCB). Moy, Tyrone, 1 male, 24.ix.−30.ix.1984, Boston leg. (PPCM). Nethy Bridge, Highland Region, 1 female, 6.vii.1922; 1 female, 12.viii.1922, all King leg. (BMNH). Old Buckenham, Norfolk, 1 male, 11.vi.1993, Chandler leg. (PPCM). Old Slade, Buckinghamshire, 2 females, 7.v.1972 (reared), Chandler leg. (NMS, PPCM). Peasmarsh, Hurtwood, Surrey, 9 males, 18 females, 17.ii.−27.iii.1975 (reared), Richards leg. (BMNH). Sandy Warren, Bedfordshire, 1 male, 10.vii.1996; 2 males; 4.vi.1998; 2 males, 24.vi.1998, all J.H. Cole leg. (PJCB). Santon Downham, Suffolk, 1 male, 5.viii.1970, no collector detail (BMNH). Sedlescombe, East Sussex, 1 male, no date, Roper leg. (PPCM). The Loke, Norwich, Norfolk, 1 male, 17.vi.1987, Laurence leg. (PBLN). West Harling Common, Norfolk, 2 males, 20.iv.−12.v.1981 (reared), Withers leg. (PPWM). Whitmoor Vale, Hampshire, 1 male, 12.vii.1990, Merrifield leg. (PPCM). Woolcombe Wood, Dorset, 1 male, 3.vii.1998, Chandler leg. (NMS).   
 Ecological notes: common in all types of woodland; heathland; wetlands including fens and water meadows; grassland at woodland fringe; acid grassland and wet woodland; parkland. Reared from rotten elm, birch and beech wood; also found on dead pines. iv–ix.
description: Published as part of Menzel, Frank, Smith, Jane E. & Chandler, Peter J., 2006, The sciarid fauna of the British Isles (Diptera: Sciaridae), including descriptions of six new species, pp. 1-147 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (1) on pages 135-136, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00190.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5435693