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
121.
Sciophila parviareolata
Santos Abreu, 1920
**
Material examined.
S3
16–30.V.06
1 ♂
.
Chorotype.
Type
3 [1.03 of
Vigna Taglianti
et al.
(1999)
]. In Europe south-westerly (Britain,
Portugal
and
Spain
), but also known from the
Canary Islands
, Gough Island in the South Atlantic and
New Zealand
, where it appears to be a recent introduction (
Toft & Chandler 2004
) and
one male
was recently recorded from
Iceland
(
Kjaerandsen
et al.
2007b
).
Italian distribution.
Sardinia
only.
Ecology.
Unknown but most British records of this species are from indoors and it has been suggested that it might be associated with fungi on household timbers, which may also account for its unusual distribution. The Sardinian specimen was collected at Valle Oridda, in a habitat characterized by secondary garrigue-type vegetation. The
Iceland
specimen was collected in a birch wood.
Notes.
Chandler (2001) recognised that this species was distinct from
S. hirta
Meigen, 1818
with which it had been synonymised by
Zaitzev (1982)
.