Mycetophila britannica Laštovka & Kidd, 1975

Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species *, Zootaxa 2318 : -

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).