Oxypoda (Mycetodrepa) alternans (Gravenhorst, 1802)

Material examined. TURKEY: Sinop: 5 exs., Çangal Daġı, 7–15.VI.1960, leg. Schubert (NHMW, cAss); 2 ex., Çangal Daġı, VIII.1979, leg. Schubert (NHMW); Giresun: 1 ex., ca. 40 km SSW Giresun, 40°36’N, 38°37’E, 1140 m, litter of hazelnut, Rhododendron, spruce, 29.VII.2006, leg. Schülke (cSch); Gümü ş hane: 4 exs., ca. 50 km SW Trabzon, NE Kürtün, 40°42’N, 39°15’E, 1750 m, spruce forest with Rhododendron, sifted, 27.VII.2006, leg. Assing, Schülke (cAss, cSch); Trabzon: 2 exs., Trabzon, ca. 50 km S Trabzon, 20 km S Maçka, Altindere Milli Park, 40°40’N, 39°40’E, 1560 m, spruce forest with Rhododendron, sifted, 26.VII.2006, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex., Altindere Milli Park, 40°40’N, 39°40’E, 1540 m, bank of stream, 26.VII.2006, leg. Schülke (cSch); 32 exs., Altindere Milli Park, 40°41’N, 39°39’E, 1650 m, spruce forest with Rhododendron, mushrooms sifted, 26.VII.2006, leg. Assing, Schülke (cAss, cSch); Rize: 102 exs., 50 km SSE Rize, W Sivrikaya, 40°41’N, 40°39’E, 2050 m, natural fir forest, litter and dead wood sifted, 1.VIII.2006, leg. Assing, Schülke (cAss, cSch); 2 exs., ca. 50 km S Ardeşen, Çat, 40°52’N, 40°56’E, 1240 m, alder forest, sifted, 3.VIII.2006, leg. Schülke (cSch).

Comment. This fungicole is widespread in the Western Palaearctic region, its range extending eastwards to Iran and Afghanistan (Smetana 2004, Zerche 1999). In Turkey, it had been recorded only from Artvin province (Zerche 1999).