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Bradysia ocellaris

Description

Bradysia ocellaris (Comstock, 1882)

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.

Notes

Published as part of Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2019, Revision of black fungus gnat species (Diptera, Sciaridae) described from the Hawaiian Islands by D. E. Hardy and W. A. Steffan, and a contribution to the knowledge of the sciarid fauna of the Galápagos Islands, pp. 401-439 in Zootaxa 4590 (4) on page 409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656164

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
PWMP
Event date
2000-12-31
Verbatim event date
2000-12-31
Scientific name authorship
Comstock
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sciaridae
Genus
Bradysia
Species
ocellaris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bradysia ocellaris (Comstock, 1882) sec. Mohrig, Kauschke & Broadley, 2019

References

  • Comstock, J. H. (1882) Report on miscellaneous insects. In: Riley, C. V., Report of the Entomologist. Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture 1882 (1881). Government Printing Office, Washington, pp. 195 - 214.
  • Shaw, F. R. (1952) New Sciaridae from the Hawaiian Islands (Diptera). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 14 (3), 491 - 496.
  • Hardy, D. E. (1960) Family Sciaridae. In: Zimmerman, E. C. (Ed.), Insects of Hawaii. A Manual of the Insects of the Hawaiian Islands, including on Enumeration of the Species and Notes on their Origin, Distribution, Hosts, Parasites etc. 10. University Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 208 - 235.
  • Steffan, W. A. (1969) Insects of Micronesia. Diptera: Sciaridae. Insects of Micronesia, 12 (7), 669 - 732.
  • Menzel, F. & Mohrig, W. (2000) Revision der palaarktischen Trauermucken (Diptera: Sciaridae). Studia dipterologica, 6 (Supplement), 1 - 761.
  • Broadley, A., Kauschke, E. & Mohrig, W. (2018) Black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) found in association with cultivated plants and mushrooms in Australia, with notes on cosmopolitan pest species and biosecurity interceptions. Zootaxa, 4415 (2), 201 - 242. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4415.2.1