Published records.

Taxon classification

Animalia

Diptera

Platypezidae

Tkoč

Michal

Roháček

Jindřich

Diversity, distribution and biology of Romanian flat-footed flies (

Diptera

Opetiidae

and

Platypezidae

) with taxonomic notes on

Callomyia

saibhira

Chandler

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Agathomyia

falleni

(Zetterstedt, 1838)

Figure 3

Published records.

Szászka [Szászka, Banat, Caraș-Severin] (Szilády 1941).

Distribution.

Palaearctic species. Recorded in Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and Russia (ER).

Biology.

Host fungus is Bjerkandera adusta (see Chandler 2001). The females can be observed during oviposition on sporocarps of the host fungi on tree stumps (Figure 3). It is a species with autumnal activity; adult flight period is in IX–XI.

Figure 3.

Agathomyia falleni (Zetterstedt, 1838), female ovipositing on undetermined yellow slime mold (Mycetozoa) on stump overgrown by Bjerkandera adusta. Photo by M. Tkoč.

Szilády

(1941) Clythiiden (

Platypezidae

) aus Ungarn (

Diptera

).Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Zoologica43: 102–104.

Chandler

(2001) The flat-footed flies (

Diptera

Opetiidae

and

Platypezidae

) of Europe.Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica Volume 36, Brill, Leiden, Boston, Köln, 276 pp.