Lycoriella Frey 1942
- Dataset
- Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) found in association with cultivated plants and mushrooms in Australia, with notes on cosmopolitan pest species and biosecurity interceptions
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen, Mohrig, Werner (2018): Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) found in association with cultivated plants and mushrooms in Australia, with notes on cosmopolitan pest species and biosecurity interceptions. Zootaxa 4415 (2): 201-242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.2.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Sciaridae
- genus
- Lycoriella
description
There are about 24 species in the subgenus from the Palaearctic region distributed exclusively across the Holarctic, except the pest species which have spread worldwide. The species prefer temperate zones in Eurasia and North America, but not northern or mountainous areas as preferred by species of the subgenera Hemineurina and Coelostylina. The pest species have been transported by humans to subantarctic islands (Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Tristan da Cunha archipelago, South Georgia) and to at least one Antarctic research base where they appear to have established stable populations.
Name
- Homonyms
- Lycoriella Frey 1942
- Lycoriella