Bolitophila

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Nematocera
Infraordo: Bibionomorpha
Superfamilia: Sciaroidea

Familia: Bolitophilidae
Genus: Bolitophila
Subgenera: B. (Bolitophila) – B. (Cliopisa) –

Species (59): B. acuta – B. alberta – B. antennata – B. aperta – B. atlantica – B. austriaca – B. basicornis – B. bilobata – B. bimaculata – B. bispinosa – B. bucera – B. caspersi – B. cinerea – B. clavata – B. collarti – B. connectans – B. cooremani – B. distus – B. doerrsteini – B. dubia – B. dubiosa – B. dupla – B. edwardsiana – B. fumida – B. glabrata – B. glabratella – B. hybrida – B. ingrica – B. japonica – B. latipes – B. lengersdorfi – B. leruthi – B. limitis – B. luteola – B. maculipennis – B. mayeri – B. melanoleuci – B. miki – B. modesta – B. montana – B. nigrolineata – B. obscurior – B. occlusa – B. patulosa – B. perlata – B. pseudohybrida – B. raca – B. rectangulata – B. recurva – B. rossica – B. saundersi – B. scherfi – B. simplex – B. speleicola – B. subbimaculata – B. subteresa – B. taihybrida – B. tarsata – B. tenella
Name

Bolitophila Meigen, 1818

Type species:
References
Primary references

Meigen 1818: Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Insekt., 1, 220.

Additional references

Ševčík, J. & Papp, L. 2004. Bolitophilidae (Diptera) from Taiwan: A family new to the Oriental region. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 50(1): 55–62. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Bolitophila is the sole living genus in the Bolitophilidae, a family of Diptera in the superfamily Sciaroidea, with around 40 Palaearctic and about 20 Nearctic species, and three species from the Oriental region (Taiwan).[1][2] They are small (6–9 mm.)

Morphology

Schematic representation of the wing veins in the sub Bolitophila (above) and Cliopisa (below). Note the different termination of R 4 in the two subgenera.
Legenda: Pt: pterostigma; C: costa; Sc: subcosta; R: radio; M: media; Cu: cubitus; A: anal; h: humeral; r-m: radio-medial; m-cu: medio-cubital.

Conformation of the wing-veins in the subgenus Bolitophila
Biology

The larvae of Bolitophila are mycetophagous and live in decaying wood or other organic debris overgrown by fungal plant substrates. Pupation takes place inside the fungal mycelium in soil or litter. Adults prefer shady and humid environments and can be found in the undergrowth of mixed forests, often near watercourses.
Evolutionary history

The oldest fossils belonging to Bolitophila are known from the Eocene, with Bolitophila warreni known from the Lutetian aged Kishenehn Formation in Montana and Bolitophila rohdendorfi known from Baltic amber. The closest known relative to Bolitophila and only other known member of the family is the extinct genus Mangas, known from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) aged Gurvan-Eren Formation of Mongolia and the Khasurty locality of Buryatia, Russia.[3]
Species

B. acuta Garrett, 1925[4]
B. affinis Ostroverkhova, 1971[5]
B. alberta Fisher, 1937[6]
B. antennata Ševčik & Papp, 2004[1]
B. aperta Lundström, 1914[7]
B. atlantica Fisher, 1934[8]
B. austriaca (Mayer, 1950)[9]
B. basicornis (Mayer, 1951)[10]
B. bilobata Garrett, 1925[4]
B. bimaculata Zetterstedt, 1838
B. bispinosa Mayer, 1951[10]
B. bucera Shaw, 1940[11]
B. caspersi Plassmann, 1987[12]
B. cinerea Meigen, 1818
B. clavata Garrett, 1925[4]
B. collarti (Tollet, 1943)[13]
B. connectans Garrett, 1925[4]
B. cooremani (Tollet, 1955)[14]
B. coronata Mayer, 1951[10]
B. curviseta Ostroverkhova, 1979[15]
B. disjuncta Loew, 1869
B. distus Fisher, 1937[6]
B. doerrsteini Plassmann, 1988[16]
B. dubia Siebke, 1863
B. dubiosa Van Duzee, 1928
B. duplus Garrett, 1925[4]
B. edwardsiana Stackelberg, 1969
B. exilis (Kovalev, 1986)
B. fumida Edwards, 1941
B. fusca Meigen, 1818
B. glabrata Loew, 1869
B. glabratella Mayer, 1951[10]
B. hybrida (Meigen, 1804)
B. incisa Ostroverkhova & Grishina, 1974
B. ingrica Stackelberg, 1969
B. japonica (Okada, 1934)
B. latipes Tollet, 1943[13]
B. lengersdorfi (Tollet, 1955)[14]
B. leruthi (Tollet, 1955)[14]
B. limitis Polevoi, 1996
B. luteola Plotnikova, 1962
B. maculipennis Mayer, 1951[10]
B. maculipennis Walker, 1835
B. mayeri Plassmann, 1987[12]
B. melanoleuci Polevoi, 1996
B. miki (Mayer, 1950)[9]
B. modesta Lackschewitz, 1937
B. montana Coquillett, 1901
B. nana (Macquart, 1826)
B. nigrolineata Landrock, 1912
B. obscurior Stackelberg, 1969
B. occlusa Edwards, 1913
B. palustris Ostroverkhova, 1979[15]
B. patulosa Garrett, 1925[4]
B. perlata Garrett, 1925[4]
B. plumicornis (Mayer, 1951)[10]
B. pseudohybrida Landrock, 1912
B. raca Garrett, 1925[4]
B. rectangulata Lundström, 1913
B. recurva Garrett, 1925[4]
B. rossica Landrock, 1912
B. saundersii (Curtis, 1836)
B. scherfi Plassmann, 1970
B. sibirica (Ostroverkhova, 1979)[15]
B. simplex Garrett, 1925[4]
B. spelaeicola Tollet, 1955[14]
B. spinigera Edwards, 1925
B. subbimaculata Zaitzev, 1994
B. subteresa (Garrett, 1925)[4]
B. taihybrida Ševčik & Papp, 2004[1]
B. tarsata Mayer, 1951[10]
B. tarsatiformis Ostroverkhova, 1979[15]
B. tenella Winnertz, 1863
B. triangulata Edwards, 1941
B. trullata Lundström, 1916
B. tungusica Ostroverkhova, 1979[15]

References

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Bechev, D. & Chandler, P. 2011. Catalogue of the Bolitophilidae and Diadocidiidae of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Zootaxa 2741: 38–58..
Greenwalt, Dale E.; Blagoderov, Vladimir A. (2019-03-18). "Review of the fossil record of Bolitophilidae, with description of new taxa and discussion of position of Mangas Kovalev (Diptera: Sciaroidea)". Zootaxa. 4567 (3): 546. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4567.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334.
Garrett, C.B.D. (1925). Sixty-one new Diptera. Cranbrook, British Columbia: Published by the author. pp. 1–12.
Ostroverkhova, G. P. (1971). "New and little know species of fungus gnats (Diptera, Fungivoridae) from Krasnoyarsk's Reserve Stolby". Trudy Gasudart. Zapov. Stolby, Krasnoyarsk (in Russian). 8: 91–99.
Fisher, Elizabeth G. (1937). "New North American fungus gnats (Mycetophilidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 45: 387–401, 2 pls. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
Lundstrom, C. (1914). "Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Dipteren Finlands. IX. Supplement 3. Mycetophilidae". Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 39 (2): 1–26.
Fisher, E. G. (1934). "Four new species of Mycetophilidae (Diptera)". Canadian Entomologist. 66 (12): 276–278. doi:10.4039/Ent66276-12.
Mayer, H. (1950). "Zwei neue Fungivoriden (Diptera, Nematocera) aus der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museum Wien" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 57: 281–283. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
Mayer, H. (1951). "Neue Fungivoridae (Diptera, Menatocera) aus der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 58: 127–136. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
Shaw, F. R. (1940). "Some new Mycetophilidae". Canadian Entomologist. 72 (3): 48–51. doi:10.4039/Ent7248-3.
Plassmann, E. (1987). "Neun neue Pilzmucken aus der Westpalaarktis. (Diptera, Nematocera, Mycetophilidae)". Spixiana. 9: 143–150.
Tollet, R. (1943). "Notes sur les Dipteres Mycetophilidae de Belgique. I. Ditomyiinae, Bolitophilidae". Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle du Belgique. 19 (59): 1–20.
Tollet, R. (1955). "Etudes Biospeologiques. XXXVI. Revision des Mycetophilidae cavernicoles de Transylvanicae (Diptera, Nematocera) recueillis par R. Leruth". Mémoires de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique. 27: 443–469.
Ostroverkhova, G. P. (1979). Fungus gnats (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) of Siberia.[In Russian]. Tomsk. pp. 1–308.

Plassmann, E. (1988). "Eine neue Pilzmucke der Gattung Bolitophila Meigen aus Norddeutschland (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)". Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins E.V. Frankfurt A.M. 13: 23–27.