Orfelia persimilis Caspers, 1991

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

9. Orfelia persimilis Caspers, 1991

Literature records. Sardinia ( Caspers 1991; Dahl et al. 1995; Chandler 2004a).

Material examined. C14 20–24.V.06 ♂♂. C23 19–24.V.06 ♂♂. S2 30.V–13.VI.06 ♀, 13–27.VI.06 ♂♂, 8–22.VIII.06 ♂♂. SAR1 31.VIII.–14.IX.03 2 ♂♂, 14–29.IX.03 1 ♀, 30.VI–16.VII.04 ♂♂, 16.VII–1.VIII.04 ♂♂, 1–16.VIII.04 ♂♂ ♀, 16.VIII.8.IX.04 ♂♂, 16.VI–14.VII.05 2 ♂♂, 14.VII–5.VIII.05 3 ♂♂ 1 ♀, 30.IX– 17.X.05 ♂♂. S1 16 –30.V.06 ♂♂, 30.V–13.VI.06 ♂♂, 13–27.VI.06 ♂♂ ♀, 11–25.VII.06 ♂♂ ♀, 8– 22.VIII.06 ♂♂, 22.VIII.5.IX.06 ♀. T6 9.VI.1981 1 ♂ [holotype, ZSM] .

Chorotype. Type 6 [3.02 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. South-west European.

Italian distribution. Northern mainland ( Chandler 2004b) and Sardinia.

Notes. The other material cited from Corsica and Tunisia by Caspers (1991) is now considered not to be conspecific (unpublished observation by the author).