Sciara ocellaris Comstock, 1882 [Comstock (1882): 202, figs 2 – 4].
Common synonym: Bradysia tritici (Coquillett).
Selected literature: Shaw (1952): 494, fig. 3 (as Sciara (Lycoriella) garretti); Shaw (1952): 493, fig. 1 (as Sciara (Lycoriella) johannseni); Shaw (1952): 494 – 495 (as Sciara (Lycoriella) laffooni); Hardy (1960): 221 – 223, fig, 70 a – g (as Sciara (Lycoriella) garretti); Steffan (1969): 723, 725 – 727, fig. 22 a – i; Steffan (1973a): 356; Steffan (1974a): 45; Steffan (1974b): 467 – 472, fig. 1 a – h (all as Bradysia tritici); Steffan (1974b): 472 – 473, fig. 2 a – h (as Bradysia reynoldsi); Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 155–156; Mohrig et al. (2013): 166 – 168, fig. 16 a – c; Broadley et al. (2018): 210 – 213, fig. 3 A – E.
Material studied: 9 males, 31.xii.2000, Maui, Kihei, house garden in suburban area, yellow trap, leg. W. Mohrig (PWMP).
Comments. The nomenclature and the synonymy of the species was discussed by Menzel & Mohrig (2000).
Distribution. Cosmopolitan.