BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) ANIMALIA (animals) EUMETAZOA (metazoans) BILATERIA (bilaterally symmetrical animals) PROTOSTOMIA (protostomes) ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) ARTHROPODA (arthropods) HEXAPODA (hexapods) INSECTA (insects) PTERYGOTA (winged insects) Neoptera (an infraclass of insects) Endopterygota (insects with wings developing internally) DIPTERA (two-winged flies) NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies) SCIAROIDEA (fungus gnats) MYCETOPHILIDAE (a family of fungus gnats) Record Mycetophilidae is also a member of: Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) MYCETOPHILIDAE (a family of fungus gnats) Date: 11 July 2000 OS grid ref: SU56 Lat/Lon: 51° 20' N, 1° 20' W Location: Vice County: Berks, VC22, England Voucher: 11/07/2000[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Stage or state: Imago Record Summary: Earthen cocoon on dead umbellifer stem Associated organism: on dead stem of Apiaceae Identification Notes: Earthen cocoon with exit hole sealed with silk, probably a wasp of some type. A parasitic wasp emerged c. 22 July 00 but this was far too small to be the original occupant. Images macro-photographs << Click on a thumbnail

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