Cosmosciara hartii ( Johannsen, 1912 )

Broadley, Adam, Kauschke, Ellen & Mohrig, Werner, 2019, Revision of the black fungus gnat species (Diptera: Sciaridae) described by W. A. Steffan from Micronesia, Zootaxa 4683 (2), pp. 215-241 : 224

Cosmosciara hartii ( Johannsen, 1912)

Sciara hartii Johannsen, 1912 [ Johannsen (1912): 144].

Selected literature: Hardy (1956): 73–75, fig. 2 a–e; Hardy (1960): 214, fig. d–g (both as Plastosciara (Cosmosciara) brevicalcarata ); Hardy (1956): 77, fig. 4 a–d; Hardy (1960): 217, fig. 68 a–d; Steffan (1969): 690–692, fig. 8 a–h (all as Plastosciara (Plastosciara) latipons ); Menzel & Smith (2009): 32–33, fig. 21–25 (as Cosmosciara perniciosa ); Mohrig et al. (2013): 223–224, fig. 43 a–c (as Pnyxia hartii ); Broadley et al. (2018): 213–214, figs 7 A–B, 8 A–C, 9 A–D; Mohrig et al. (2019): 414, fig. 9 A–B.

Common synonyms: Cosmosciara perniciosa (Edwards) ; Plastosciara latipons Hardy ; Plastosciara brevicalcarata Hardy.

Comments. Plastosciara latipons Hardy, 1956 was identified as conspecific with Cosmosciara hartii (Johannsen) by Mohrig et al. (2019).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan.