Mycetophila alea Laffoon, 1965

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

70. Mycetophila alea Laffoon, 1965

Mycetophila guttata Dziedzicki, 1884 , not M. guttata Hutton, 1881

Literature records. Sardinia ( Chandler 2008). Material examined. C31 20–23.V.06 ♂♂ ♀ . C70 9.VI.04 1 ♂. S1 18.IV–2.V.06 ♂♂, 2–16.V.06 ♂♂, 16–

30.V.06 3 ♂♂, 17–31.X.06 ♀. S3 17 –31.X.06 ♂♂. SAR1 16.II–15.VI.04 1 ♀, 15–30.VI.04 2 ♀, 16.VI– 14.VII.05 1 ♀, 2–16.XII.05 1 ♂. U1 21.XI.05 1 ♂. U2 21.XI.05 1 ♂.

Chorotype. Type 1 [1.01 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Holarctic.

Italian distribution. North and south of mainland ( Dahl et al. 1995; Chandler 2008; Kurina 2008), Sardinia and Sicily.

Notes. This species is here recorded as new to Sicily on 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ from Etna ( Catania province ), 1000 m, 5.vi.1999, leg. P. Gatt (private collection) .