Bradysia sp. 2

Menzel, Frank, Vilkamaa, Pekka & Smith, Jane E., 2013, Overview of the Black Fungus Gnats from the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, including a redescription of Hyperlasion viridiventris (FREY) (Diptera: Sciaroidea: Sciaridae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 63 (2), pp. 283-296 : 288

Bradysia sp. 2

Literature:

– FREEMAN (1962): 79 [as Bradysia sp. 2 ]; – HOLDGATE (1965): 383, 384 and 396 [in part as Bradysia sp. ]; – JONES et al. (2003): 246 [in part as B. nocturna TUOMIKOSKI ].

Material from the archipelago:

Only known from the literature ( FREEMAN 1962, HOLD- GATE 1965).

Distribution:

Recorded from Gough Island (2 ♀♀ in the BMNH collection) .

Discussion:

Under the name ‘ Bradysia sp. 2 ’ FREEMAN (1962: 79) listed two females collected by M. HOLDGATE. We have studied this material. Both females are possibly conspecific with ‘ Bradysia sp. 1 ’, that P. VILKAMAA identified in JONES et al. (2003) as Bradysia nocturna TUOMIKOSKI [= Bradysia forficulata (BEZZI, 1914) ].