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Species Account for Dioxyna bidentis

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Dioxyna bidentis  (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)
Diptera: other groups: Tephritidae

Dioxyna bidentis

 
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Taxonomic group: flies (other) (Diptera: other groups) - County data

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Status: Notable

Essex RDB: Listed
Records: 56
First Record: 1976
Latest Record: 2023

1992-on hectads: 16
Pre-1992 hectads: 1
Total hectads: 17

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This picture-winged fly is a local species whose larvae feed on the flower heads and unripe seeds of the local Tripartite Bur-marigold Bidens tripartita, although it has been collected in areas where Bidens does not occur. Records are widely dispersed in England as far north as Yorkshire and with an old record from Kinrara, Speyside, Scotland (1936), but there are nine post 1960 sites known to Falk (1991a). Habitat preferences are unclear, but records include marshes and wet areas on commons and dunes. Threats include loss of the host plant through either overgrazing, or cessation of grazing with subsequent scrub invasion. Bidens species appear to require ground which is flooded in the winter, but not in the summer, (Falk, op. cit.) so it is essential that water levels facilitate this. References

Species text last edited on Tue Mar 20th 2007 by user 3

Habitats

Broad Habitat Data (based on 28 records with habitat information)

Broad subhabitat Data (based on 2 records with subhabitat information)

Structural Habitat Data (based on 11 records with structural habitat information)

Habitat Detail and Method (based on 56 records with habitat detail and method information)

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