Oxyporus (Pseudoxyporus) occipitalis Fauvel 1864

Оxyporus (Pseudoxyporus) occipitalis Fauvel, 1864

Published data. LESCHEN & ALLEN (1988): morphological description of E, L3 without chaetotaxy, P; HANLEY & GOODRICH (1993): hosts and distribution.

Larval morphology. Head and body sclerites without pigmentation; prementum with lateral setae 1/4 times as long as medial setae, sublateral setae absent; from two to three articulated spines on the inner lobe of mala.

Development. According to LESCHEN & ALLEN (1988), the third instar larvae left the fungal fruit body four days after collection and afterwards developed into adults in five days. HANLEY & GOODRICH (1993) showed that full development in laboratory at room temperature from egg to imago is very short and takes only 17 days as follows: egg: several hours; instar I: approximately one day; instar II: appr. one day; instar III: appr. six days; pupa: appr. six days.

Behavior. Females were typically laying eggs in the chamber built inside the gill layer of the fungi (LESCHEN & ALLEN 1988). According to HANLEY & GOODRICH (1993), O. occipitalis were collected only from the mature fungal fruit bodies. A male and female were once seen copulating on a host fungal cap. Hatching was said to begin several hours after collecting the eggs. In the Pacific Northwest (USA) this species was collected mostly in October, but overall across its range from September to November.