Keroplatus tipuloides Bosc, 1792

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

3. Keroplatus tipuloides Bosc, 1792

Ceroplatus sesioides Wahlberg, 1839

Ceroplatus affinis Costa, 1844

Literature records. Sardinia ( Costa 1882; Costa 1883; Santini 1980; Dahl et al. 1995; Chandler 2004a).

Chorotype. Type 2 [1.05 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Palaearctic.

Italian distribution. Northern and southern mainland and Sardinia ( Dahl et al. 1995).

Notes. Costa (1844) described the synonym Ceroplatus affinis from the Italian mainland. A Keroplatus Bosc female from T6, 9.VI.1981, was undetermined to species by Norbert Caspers. This is therefore unlikely to have been K. tipuloides , which cannot be confused with any other species, so a second species of the genus may be present in Sardinia if the old record of K. tipuloides is correct.