The fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) collection of the Regional Natural History Museum – Plovdiv
Svetlozara Kazandzhieva1,2*
1 – National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., 1000 Sofia, BULGARIA
2 – Regional Museum of Natural History – Plovdiv, 34 Hristo G. Danov Street, 4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA
*E-mail: svetlozara.k@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5018-8951
Abstract. A list of 308 identified specimens of fungus gnats of the families Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae mainly from Bulgaria, and some from Greece, in the collection of Regional Natural History Museum – Plovdiv with notes on the collection and its condition is presented. Detailed information is provided about 32 specimens from the Oriental region – 3 holotypes (Stenophragma borneense Bechev & Kazandzhieva, 2020; Chetoneura lagangensis Kazandzhieva & Bechev, 2022; Dziedzickia longistyla Bechev & Kazandzhieva, 2023), 24 paratypes (Stenophragma borneense Bechev & Kazandzhieva, 2020; Dziedzickia pectinata Sevcik, Bechev & Hippa, 2011; Dziedzickia bifida Sevcik, Bechev & Hippa, 2011), and 5 other identified specimens preserved in the museum collection. Additional information is given about unidentified specimens of Mycetophilidae, Keroplatidae and Sciaridae.
Keywords: fungus gnats, collection, Mycetophilidae, Bulgaria, Greece, Oriental
