Boletina pallidula Edwards, 1925

Salmela, Jukka, Suuronen, Anna & Kaunisto, Kari M, 2016, New and poorly known Holarctic species of Boletina Staeger, 1840 (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 7218-7218 : 7218

Boletina pallidula Edwards, 1925

Boletina pallidula Edwards, 1925: 573 ( Edwards 1925)

Boletina subnitidula Sasakawa, 1994: 298 ( Sasakawa 1994), syn. n.

Taxon discussion

Boletina pallidula was described by Edwards ( Edwards 1925) from the British Isles, and the male hypopygium has been later illustrated by Hutson et al. 1980 and Zaitzev 1994. The species has a European range, including Fennoscandia, northern Russia, Central Europe, Bulgaria and Hungary ( Chandler 2014). Sasakawa ( Sasakawa 1994) described B. subnitidula from the Chiba prefekture in Japan based on material collected from Arisema serratum flowers. Sasakawa's description is very detailed, including illustrations on the male hypopygium, and hence we propose it as a junior synonym of B. pallidula . In his discussion on B. subnitidula Sasakawa ( Sasakawa 1994, p. 300) does not mention B. pallidula ; instead, he compares his new species to rather distant species B. nitida Grzegorzek and B. dispecta Dziedzicki. It is likely that Sasakawa was not aware of B. pallidula while describing B. subnitidula .