Psychodidae
General description:
These small flies are often found in bath rooms.
Include in these publications:
Psychodidae
EOL Text
Locations of barcode samples:
Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Psychodidae
Associations:
In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Animal / pathogen
few, large, white or greenish, disk-ended rhizoids of Pandora dipterigena infects adult of Psychodidae
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Known predators:
Psychodidae (Psychodidae (N=6)) is prey of:
Salvelinus fontinalis
Based on studies in:
Canada: Ontario, Mad River (River)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- W. E. Ricker, 1934. An ecological classification of certain Ontario streams. Univ. Toronto Studies, Biol. Serv. 37, Publ. Ontario Fish. Res. Lab. 49:7-114, from pp. 78, 89.
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Known prey organisms:
Psychodidae (Psychodidae (N=6)) preys on:
detritus
Audouinella
Epithemia zebra
Gomphonema angustatum
Unknown green algae filaments
organic detritus
Achnanthes lanceolata
Deleatidium
Lumbriculiid type II
Based on studies in:
New Zealand: Otago, Catlins, Craggy Tor catchment (River)
New Zealand: Otago, Healy Stream, Taieri River, Kye Burn catchment (River)
New Zealand: Otago, North Col, Silver catchment (River)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- Thompson, RM and Townsend CR. 2005. Energy availability, spatial heterogeneity and ecosystem size predict food-web structure in streams. OIKOS 108: 137-148.
- Townsend, CR, Thompson, RM, McIntosh, AR, Kilroy, C, Edwards, ED, Scarsbrook, MR. 1998. Disturbance, resource supply and food-web architecture in streams. Ecology Letters 1:200-209.
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Statistics of barcoding coverage:
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records: 6883
Specimens with Sequences: 6221
Specimens with Barcodes: 5874
Species: 222
Species With Barcodes: 194
Public Records: 793
Public Species: 84
Public BINs: 115