Apiloscatopse picea (Meigen, 1818)
(a scatopsid fly)

Interactions where Apiloscatopse picea is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season
imago imago visits for nectar and/or pollen flower Hedera helix Ivy Apiales: Araliaceae Bibionid and Scatopsid Flies, Freeman, P. & Lane, R.P., 1985
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Scatopsidae/Apiloscatopse picea/Apiloscatopse piceaa scatopsid flyimago Foodplant / visitor /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Apiales/Araliaceae/Hedera helix/Hedera helixivyflower

Author & YearTitleSource
Freeman, P. & Lane, R.P., 1985Bibionid and Scatopsid FliesHandbook for the Identification of British Insects , Vol 9, Part 7, 74pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Apiloscatopse picea (a scatopsid fly) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Apiloscatopse picea (a scatopsid fly) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesApiloscatopse picea (a scatopsid fly)
GenusApiloscatopse (a genus of scatopsid flies)
FamilySCATOPSIDAE (scatopsid flies)
SuperfamilySCATOPSOIDEA (scatopsid flies)
InfraorderPsychodomorpha (owl midges or moth flies, winter & window gnats, scatopsids)
SuborderNEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Apiloscatopse picea (a scatopsid fly)

Apiloscatopse picea (a scatopsid fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Apiloscatopse picea (a scatopsid fly):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 12 images of Apiloscatopse picea (a scatopsid fly)

A small dark fly which is particularly abundant on flowering Ivy (Hedera helix) in the autumn

Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)