A contribution to the knowledge of the Chyromyidae (Diptera) of Italy with description of a new species of Aphaniosoma Becker

The family Chryomyidae is reported from Sicily (eleven species) and from Sardinia (nine species). Additional records of species for mainland Italy are also given. A new species of Aphaniosoma is described from France, Sicily and Sardinia. A total of eleven species are new to Italy: Chyromya miladae, Gymnochiromyia fallax, G. flavella, G. inermis, G. mihalyii, Aphaniosoma collini, A. claridgei, A. grisescens, A. micromacro, A. proximum, and A. bifalcatum sp. n. A list is given of all the seventeen species so far recorded for Italy and its larger islands, together with their data and their distribution in the West Palaearctic.