The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species *
Author
Chandler, Peter J.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-12-22
2318
journal volume
1175-5326
79.
Mycetophila signatoides
Dziedzicki, 1884
Fungivora conformis
Matile, 1963a
Mycetophila assimilis
Matile, 1967
Literature records.
Sardinia
(
Chandler 2004a
;
Chandler 2008
).
Material examined. C70
8.VI.04
1 ♂
.
C82
9.VI.04
1 ♂
.
SAR1
16.II–15.VI.04
1 ♂
.
U1
21.XI.05
1 ♂
.
U2
21.XI.05
2 ♂♂
.
V1
10.VI.1972
1 ♂
.
Chorotype.
Type
2 (revised from
4 in
Chandler
et al.
(2006))
[1.02 of
Vigna Taglianti
et al.
(1999)
]. Palaearctic.
Italian distribution.
Northern mainland (
Chandler 2008
;
Kurina 2008
) and
Sardinia
.
Notes.
Chandler (2004a)
recorded this species from
Sardinia
based on the specimen from V1 cited above.
Zaitzev (2003)
used the name
M. assimilis
for this species and applied the name
M. signatoides
to a different as yet undescribed species, as discussed by Chandler (2001). The previously unpublished records from the mainland of
Italy
are from Aosta, leg. L. Matile (
MNHN
) and from Siusi allo Sciliar [= Seis am Schlern] (Bolzano province),
1–13.VI.1964
,
1 ♂
, leg. J. C. Deeming (
BMNH
).