{"id":6574,"date":"2026-10-09T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:12:22","slug":"the-fungus-gnats-diptera-sciaroidea-collection-of-the-regional-natural-history-museum-plovdiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/2026\/10\/09\/the-fungus-gnats-diptera-sciaroidea-collection-of-the-regional-natural-history-museum-plovdiv\/","title":{"rendered":"The fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) collection of the Regional Natural History Museum \u2013 Plovdiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) collection of the Regional Natural History Museum \u2013 Plovdiv<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Svetlozara Kazandzhieva<sup>1,2*<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1 &#8211; National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., 1000 Sofia, BULGARIA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2 &#8211; Regional Museum of Natural History \u2013 Plovdiv, 34 Hristo G. Danov Street, 4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><sup>*<\/sup>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:svetlozara.k@gmail.com\">svetlozara.k@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5018-8951\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5018-8951<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract. <\/strong>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 \u2013 Plovdiv with notes on the collection and its condition is presented. Detailed information is provided about 32 specimens from the Oriental region &#8211; 3 holotypes (<em>Stenophragma<\/em> <em>borneense <\/em>Bechev &amp; Kazandzhieva, 2020; <em>Chetoneura lagangensis<\/em> Kazandzhieva &amp; Bechev, 2022; <em>Dziedzickia longistyla<\/em> Bechev &amp; Kazandzhieva, 2023), 24 paratypes (<em>Stenophragma<\/em> <em>borneense <\/em>Bechev &amp; Kazandzhieva, 2020; <em>Dziedzickia pectinata<\/em> Sevcik, Bechev &amp; Hippa, 2011; <em>Dziedzickia bifida<\/em> Sevcik, Bechev &amp; Hippa, 2011), and 5 other identified specimens preserved in the museum collection. Additional information is given about unidentified specimens of Mycetophilidae, Keroplatidae and Sciaridae.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>fungus gnats, collection, Mycetophilidae, Bulgaria, Greece, Oriental<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.65437\/bnhmp.10.1.1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.65437\/bnhmp.10.1.1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bnhmp-25101_260525_1-16.pdf\">Full text PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}