Bibio marci ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Haenni, Jean-Paul, 2009, The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Sardinia, with description of two new species *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 427-439 : 429-430

2. Bibio marci ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Tipula marci Linnaeus, 1758: 588

Bibio hortulanus L. var. marci (L.): Duda 1930: 59

Bibio marci (L.): Krivosheina 1986: 323

Literature records. Sardinia ( Skartveit 2004).

Records. S2: 1.III–4.IV.2006, 4 ♂♂ ( CNBFVR) .

Other records. France, Corsica, Corse-du-Sud, Spelunca , 11.IV.1935, 1 ♂, J. Simonet leg. ( MHNG) . Italy, Aosta Valley : St. Vincent, Salirod , 1080m, 14.V.2006, 1 ♂, J.-P. Haenni leg. ( MHNN) . Italy, Abruzzi: Chieti prov., Abetina di Rosello , F.te Volpona, 980m, 18.V.2005, 1 ♀, D. Birtele, M. Bardiani & D. Whitmore leg. ( CNBFVR) . Calabria: Reggio Calabria prov., near Giffone, Piano Limina , 800m, 11.V.2004, 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀, D. Birtele, P. Cerretti, G. Nardi & D. Whitmore leg. ( CNBFVR) .

Chorotype. W-Palaearctic.

Italian distribution. Mainland Italy, Sicily ( Dahl et al. 1995). Lombardy ( Vanin 2002), Trentino-Alto Adige ( Marcuzzi 1956; Hellrigl 1996; Vanin 2006), Venetia ( Sommaggio et al. 2004), Tuscany ( Vanin 2003), Latium (cf. Krivosheina 1997), Aosta Valley, Abruzzi, Calabria, Sardinia ( Skartveit 2004; present paper).

Ecology. One of the commonest species of the genus, widespread in various biotopes in the whole of Europe, flight period in spring.

Notes. Recorded from Sardinia by Skartveit (2004), but with no known locality. Confusion may however have occurred with the closely related B. sardocyrneus sp. nov. (see below). The above record from Domusnovas (SW Sardinia) is thus the first verified proof of the occurrence of B. marci in Sardinia, where both species are apparently sympatric. This is also the case in Corsica.