Bradysia ocellaris ( Comstock, 1882 )

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, Zootaxa 4590 (4), pp. 401-439 : 409

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.