Snail-killing Flies Recording Scheme

 

  • Taxonomic Group (English): Snail-killing flies
  • Taxonomic Group (Scientific): Sciomyzidae
  • Scheme Organisers: Ian McLean and Darwyn Sumner
  • Address: 26 Cranfield Way, Brampton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 4QZ

Identification key

A key to the British Sciomyzidae by Stuart Ball (2017) is available from the membership area.

Steve Falk also has a comprehensive gallery on Flickr complete with helpful habitat and identification notes

Recording

Via iRecord and iNaturalist please.  iNaturalist projects include both a UK version and a European one. Many thanks to the verifiers on all platforms.

Open Data

Both iRecord and iNaturalist recording routes end up on NBN Atlas, the ongoing recording by these ends up here as a result of verification by D. Sumner & M. Harrow. Projects and other material are deposited here 

Recording scheme newsletters

Books relating to this scheme