Trichosia (Trichosia) caudata ( Walker, 1848 )

Sutou, Mitsuaki & Menzel, Frank, 2025, The genera Mouffetina Frey and Trichosia Winnertz (Diptera, Sciaridae) in Japan with a key for the Japanese species and an updated world checklist, Contributions to Entomology 75 (1), pp. 167-182 : 167-182

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e145605

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15027209

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scientific name

Trichosia (Trichosia) caudata ( Walker, 1848 )
status

 

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Material examined.

JAPAN • 1 ♂; Honshu, Hyogo Pref., Yabu, Mt. Hyounosen , mixed forest dominated by Fagus crenata and bamboo grasses; 35°21'N, 134°31'E; alt. 1200 m; 28 Sept. 1995; M. Jaschhof and T. Yagi leg., sweep-net; SDEI GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

Trichosia caudata was originally described by Fabricius (1794) in the fly genus Rhagio ( Rhagionidae ) and later classified by himself as ‘ Sciara morio ’ in the family Sciaridae ( Fabricius 1805) . Heller et al. (2016) found that the female lectotype of Rhagio morio Fabricius belongs to Sciara hemerobioides Scopoli, 1763 , so that the name Rhagio morio Fabricius sank into synonymy and the next available name, ‘ caudata Walker, 1848 ’, was reinstated for this Trichosia species. Trichosia caudata (Walker) is common and widespread in Europe ( Menzel and Mohrig 1997), but has only rarely been found in East Asia. Sasakawa (1993, 2003, 2014) recorded an adult specimen from Japan as ‘ Bradysia morio ’ (1993) and ‘ Trichosia morio ’ (2003, 2014) which visited a Naematoloma mushroom in Kyoto Prefecture. In this study, we examined one male collected in Hyogo Prefecture.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sciaridae

Genus

Trichosia

SubGenus

Mouffetina