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
71.
Mycetophila britannica
Laštovka & Kidd, 1975
*
Material examined. C70
9.VI.04
1 ♂
.
C82
9–12.VI.04
3 ♂♂
1 ♀
.
S1
21
.III–4.IV.06
♂♂
, 4–18.IV.06
♂♂
, 18.IV–2.V.06
2 ♂♂
, 2–16.V.06
♂♂
.
S2
21
.III–4.IV.06
♂♂
♀
, 4–18.IV.06
♂♂
♀
, 18.IV–2.V.06
♂♂
, 16– 30.V.06
♀
.
S3
13
–27.VI.06
♀
.
SAR1
16.II–15.VI.04
4 ♂♂
, 30.VI–16.VIII.04
♂♂
, 17.XII.04–4.I.05
♂♂
♀
, 4.I–18.I.05
2 ♂♂
1 ♀
, 18.I–1.III.05
1 ♂
2 ♀
, 1.III–29.IV.05
2 ♂♂
, 29.IV–20.V.05
♂♂
, 20.V–16.VI.05
♂♂
♀
, 13–30.IX.05
1 ♂
, 17.X–3.XI.05
3 ♂♂
2 ♀
, 3–16.XI.05
3 ♂♂
2 ♀
, 2–16.XII.05
1 ♀
.
U1
21.XI.05
2 ♂♂
2 ♀
.
U2
21.XI.05
9 ♂♂
5 ♀
.
U4
22.XI.05
1 ♀
.
V1
10.VI.1972
1 ♂
.
Chorotype.
Type
3 [1.03 of
Vigna Taglianti
et al.
(1999)
].
Western Palaearctic
including the
Near East
and
Atlantic Islands
.
Italian distribution.
Northern mainland (
Chandler 2003c
),
Sicily
(
Chandler 2004a
) and
Sardinia
.
Notes.
As this is possibly the only species of the
M. ruficollis
Meigen, 1818
group to occur in
Sardinia
, females of this group are placed here. The Sicilian record by
Chandler (2004a)
refers to
1 ♂
and
1 ♀
from Nebradi,
8 km
north-west of Cesaro (Messina province),
1300 m
,
7.v.1999
, leg. P. Gatt (private collection).