A review of the soldier flies (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) of Sardinia * Author Mason, Franco Centro Nazionale Biodiversità Forestale “ Bosco Fontana ” - Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Via Carlo Ederle 16 / a, I- 37100 Verona, Italy. E-mail: fmason @ tin. it Author Rozkošný, Rudolf Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlá ská 2, CZ- 61137 Brno, Czech Republic. Author Hauser, Martin Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832 - 1448, U. S. A. E-mail: phycus @ gmail. com text Zootaxa 2009 2009-12-22 2318 507 530 journal article 1175-5326 Sargus bipunctatus ( Scopoli, 1763 ) Published records. Sardinia ( Rozkošný 1982 ; Mason & Krivosheina 1995 ; Troiano & Toscano 1997 ; Rozkošný 2004 ). Carbonia-Iglesias prov: Iglesias, Monti Marganai, near Case Marganai ( Mason et al. 2006 ). Olbia-Tempio prov.: Tempio ( Costa 1882 , as S. reaumurii Meigen, 1804 ). Remarks. The above-quoted generic record from Sardinia is based on a list provided by C. Contini more than 27 years ago ( cf. Rozkošný 1982 ). Distribution. A European species ranging from Ireland , Great Britain and Poland to Spain , Sardinia, Sicily, Greece , southern most European Russia and Georgia. The species has also been introduced to the west coast of North America ( Rozkošný 1982 , 2004 ).