Family BOLITOPHILIDAE




The family Bolitophilidae is monogeneric with regard to living examples. However, there are two genera (one extinct) recorded from fossil deposits. Adults of extant species have generally the same habits as other mycetophiloid families, and are found particularly along the sides of streams or ditches. The larvae inhabit soft fungi growing on the ground.


Genus BOLITOPHILA Meigen

*BOLITOPHILA Meigen, 1818: 220. Type species: Bolitophila cinerea Meigen, 1818, by subsequent designation of Westwood (1840: 127).
pulveris Lewis, 1969: 107. NE: USA (Miocene) [C].
Unidentified sp.-NE: USA (Oligocene) [C] (Lewis, 1987: 13).
Unidentified sp.-PA: Baltic Region (Eocene/Oligocene) [A] (Rohdendorf, 1964: 239).


Genus MANGAS Kovalev

MANGAS Kovalev, 1986: 136. Type species: Mangas exilis Kovalev, 1986, by original designation.
exilis Kovalev, 1986: 136. PA: Mongolia (Lower Cretaceous) [C].


This page last revised 17 February 1997 by nle