Table 1 A Checklist of Diptera recorded from Epping Forest. The list is from the statutory Forest and does not include records from elsewhere in the Epping Forest area. TRICHOCERIDAE Trichocera annulata Mg hiemalis (Deg) regelationis (L) saltator (Har) TIPULIDAE Austrolimnophila ochracea (Mg) Cheilotrichia cinerascens (Mg) Ctenophora bimaculata (L) flaveolata (F) pectinicornis (L) Cylindrotoma distinctissima (Mg) Dicranota bimaculata (Schum) Dolichopeza albipes (Stroem) Erioptera fuscipennis Mg fusculenta Edw gemina Tjeder hybrida (Mg) lutea Mg maculata Mg nigripalpis Goet occoecata (Edw) squalida Loew stictica Edw trivialis Mg Helius flavus (Walker) longirostris (Mg) pallirostris Edw Limnophila adjuncta (Walker) dispar (Mg) ferruginea (Mg) fulvonervosa (Schum) lineola (Mg) maculata (Mg) meigeni Ver nemoralis (Mg) pictinipennis (Mg) squalens (Zett) Limonia bifasciata (Schrank) chorea (Mg) decemmaculata (Loew) dumetorum Mg duplicata (Doone) macrostigma (Schum) modesta (Mg) nubeculosa Mg quadrimaculata (L) tripunctata (F) Lipsothrix remota (Walker) Molophilus appendiculatus (Stgr) cinereifrons Meij griseus (Mg) ochraceus (Mg) serpentiger Edw Neolimnophila placida (Mg) Nephrotoma appendiculata (Pierrei flavipalpis (Mg) quadrifaria (Mg) Ormosia lineata (Mg) nodulosa (Mcq) Paradelphomyia senilis (Hal) Pedicia immaculata (Mg) rivosa (L) Phalacrocera replicata (L) Pilaria discicollis (Mg) filata (Walker) fuscipennis (Mg) scutellata (Stgr) Prionocera turcica (F) Pseudolimnophila lucorum (Mg) sepium (Ver) Tipula czizeki de Jong fascipennis Mg flavolineata Mg fiilvipennis Deg irrorata Mcq luna Westhoff lunata L luteipennis Mg marmorata Mg maxima Poda melanoceros Schum obsoleta Mg oleracea L pagana Mg paludosa Mg rufina Mg scripta Mg staegeri Nielson vernalis Mg vittata Mg Ula mollissima Hal sylvatica (Mg) PSYCHODIDAE Pericoma trivialis Eaton Psychoda surcoufi Tonnoir Telmatoscopus sp. PTYCHOPTERIDAE Ptychoptera albimana (F) contaminata (L) minuta Tonnoir DIXIDAE Dixella aestivalis Mg amphibia (Deg) autumnalis Mg CHAOBORIDAE Chaoborus crystallinus (Deg) CULICIDAE Aedes annulipes (Mg) cantans (Mg) geniculatus (Olivier) punctor (Kirby) rusticus (Rossi) Anopheles atroparvus Van Thiel claviger (Mg) plumbeus Stephens Culex pipiens L Culiseta annulata (Schrank) fumipennis (Stephens) litorea (Shute) morsitans (Theobald) Mansonia richiardii (Ficalbi) Orthopodomyia pulchripalpis (Rdn) CERATOPOGONIDAE Atrichopogon lucorum (Mg) Bezzia bicolor (Mg in Pg) solstitialis (Win) Ceratopogon communis Mg Clinohelea unimaculata (Mcq) Culicoides heliophilus Edw impunctatus Goet Dasyhelea dufouri (Laboulbene) versicolor (Win) Forcipomyia brevipennis (Mcq) radicicola Edw titillans (Win) Isohelea sociabilis (Goet) Palpomyia distincta (Hal) fulva (Mcq) serripes (Mg) Serromyia femorata (Mg) Stilobezzia flavirostris (Win) CHIRONOMIDAE Ablabesmyia monilis (L) Bryophaenocladius xanthogynae (Edw) Camptochironomus tentans (F) Camptocladius stercorarius (Deg) Chironomus anthracinus Zett dorsalis (Mg) plumosus (L) Corynoneura celeripes Win fuscihalter Edw scutellata Win Cricotopus flavocinctus (Kief) obnixies (Walkeri Cryptodadopelma edwardsi Kruseman Demeijerea rufipes (Li Einfeldia longipes (Stgr) paganus (Mg) Endochironomus dispar (Mg) lepidus (Mg) tendens (F) Glyptotendipes gripekoveni (Kief) Guttipelopia guttipennis (Wulp) Gymnometriocnemus brumalis (Edw) Kiefferulus tendipediformis (Goet) Krenopelopia binotata (Wied) schineri (Strobi) Lauterborniella agrayloides (Kief) Limnochironomus lobiger (Kief) Limnophyes exiguus (Goet) Metriocnemus atratulus (Zett) fuscipes (Mg) Microtendipes pedellus (Deg) Monopelopia tenuicalcar (Kief) Paraphaenocladius cuneatus (Edw) Paratanytarsus laetipes (Zett) Pentapedilum sordens (Wulp) tritum (Walker) Phaenosectra flavipes (Mg) punctipes (Wied) Polypedilum acutum Kief arundineti (Goet) nubeculosum (Mg) Psectrocladius sordidellus (Zett) Psectroptanypus varius (F) Pseudorthocladius filiformis (Kief) Pseudosmittia conjuncta (Edw) Smittia aterrima (Mg) Tanytarsus nemorosus Edw Zaurelia pentatoma Kief SIMULIIDAE Simulium erythrocephalum (Deg) ANISOPODIDAE Mycetobia pallipes Mg Sylvicola cinctus (F) BIBIONIDAE Bibio clavipes Mg johannis (L) lanigerus Mg marci (L) reticulatus Loew varipes Mg Dilophus febrilis (L) femoratus Mg 133