Sighting 4381657
Mycetophilidae (family)
A fungus gnat at Aranda Bushland
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| Mycetophilidae (family) | MichaelMulvaney | 7 Apr 2025 | |
| Unverified | trevorpreston | 18 May 2021 |
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User's notes
About 30mm under log.
4 comments
18 May 2021
I think that this specimen is the larvae of one of the Mycetophilidae - fungus flies. They move within a mucus tube in a network of webs of transparent slime. They are frequently found beneath rotting logs and are invariably associated with fungus growing there.
18 May 2021
Further digging in the literature suggests that it could be one of the fungus gnats, possibly in the Keroplatidae.
18 May 2021
It was about 30mm long, does that change things? It was found under a log and moved onto an area covered in white fungus.
18 May 2021
The additional information confirms my opinion that it is a larva of of a fungus gnat.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.076397-35.271403
- Altitude 637.0m
- Maps Aranda Bushland
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 18 May 2021 10:22 AM Recorded on
- trevorpreston Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- trevorpreston NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Mycetophilidae (family) Crane flies, midges, mosquitoes & gnats (several families) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Mycetophilidae (family) Scientific name
- A fungus gnat Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 928.72m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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