Diagnosis. Small flies (3-6 mm). Body slender, yellow, reddish yellow with dark brown to black and occasionally some whitish markings. Head small; antennae with short scape, pedicel laterally with short angular extension, third antennal segment short; vibrissae present; postocellar setae present or absent. Thorax long and narrow, with many short setae and 0-1+1-4 dorsocentral setae. Wings rather narrow; costa with subcostal break only, Sc complete, anal vein not reaching wing margin; usually the anterodistal part is darkly infuscate. Legs, especially in males, with setose for femora; tibiae with preapical dorsal setae at least on mid tibiae. Abdomen narrow.
Biology. Larvae have found in dead and decaying wood, especially of deciduous trees. Adults are most commonly found in damp forests near dead or dying trees. Males may be seen displaying courtship behaviour on trunks and stumps.
General references. Caloren & Marshall (1998 [systematics of Clusiodes]), Lonsdale & Marshall (2007 [Clusiodes]), Sasakawa (1998 [general, key to genera]), Soós (1984c [catalogue], 1987 [general, key to genera]), Stubbs (1982 [keys]).
References to the local fauna. Beuk (1992), Beuk & Zeegers (1992), Theowald (1955).
How to quote this page: Beuk, P.L.Th., 2023. Family Clusiidae. In: Beuk, P.L.Th. (Ed.): Checklist of the Diptera of the Netherlands, https://diptera-info.nl/news.php?fam=Clusiidae (date accessed: 03/01/2025).
NL: 9
B: 7
D: 7
UK: 10
World: 240
CLUSIIDAE
Clusia Haliday, 1838
= Heteromyza Fallén, 1820: misident. sensu Walker, 1853
flava (Meigen, 1830)
N
tigrina (Fallén, 1820)
N; added by De Bree et al. (2023: 16)
Clusiodes Coquillett, 1904
Note 1
= Heteroneura Fallén, 1810: misident. sensu Fallén, 1823
= Clusiaria Malloch, 1922
= Columbiella Malloch, 1922
albimanus (Meigen, 1830)
N
= pictipes (Zetterstedt, 1855): sensu auct.
caledonicus (Collin, 1912)
N
gentilis (Collin, 1912)
N; added by Beuk & Zeegers (1992: xv) and Beuk (1992: 108)
geomyzinus (Fallén, 1823)
N; informally added by Beuk (2002v: 271)
Note 2
ruficollis (Meigen, 1830)
N; added by Theowald (1955: 30)
Note 3
= facialis (Collin, 1953)
verticalis (Collin, 1912)
N; added by Beuk & Zeegers (1992: xv) and Beuk (1992: 108)
Heteromeringia Czerny, 1903
nigrimana (Loew, 1864)
added by Van Zuijlen (2020a: 362) and Mol et al. (2020: 132)
Notes
Note 1
Former subgeneric division was abandoned by Caloren & Marshall (1998: 163).
Note 2
Material examined: GELDERLAND: Epe (de Dellen, Hooge Heide, 1 [f]: 2.vi.1994, leg. B. van Aartsen MT [BEUK]), det. P.L.Th. Beuk.
Note 3
Again added by Beuk (1992: 108).
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