Crane and Winter Flies (Diptera: Limoniidae, Pediciidae, Trichoceridae) Associated with Fungi in Lithuania

Abstract

The list of Lithuanian crane flies and winter flies, whose larvae were found developing in fungi, is given. The list of fungi, in which larvae of crane and winter flies develop, is compiled in Lithuania for the first time. For the first time were larvae of Metalimnobia bifasciata (Schrank, 1781) reared from seven species of fungi and Ula bolitophila Loew, 1869 was first reared from one fungus species. This study revealed one new for Lithuania species of crane flies – Ula mixta Stary, 1983. In addition, for the first time a trophic relationship between this species of crane flies and fungi was revealed.