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Die Checkliste der deutschen Kadaverfliegen (Diptera, Carnidae) umfasst 21 Arten. Eine weitere Art wurde in der Vergangenheit für Deutschland publiziert, ist aber fehlbestimmt. Für zwei Arten der Kadaverfliegen werden hier erstmals Fundmeldungen aus Deutschland genannt: Meoneura falcata Papp, 1997 und Meoneura flavifrons Papp, 1981. Eine Bibliografie listet 63 Publikationen auf, die faunistische Angaben zu Carniden aus Deutschland enthalten., The checklist of German carnid flies (Diptera, Carnidae) includes 21 species. One additional species has been published for Germany in the past but was misidentified. For two species of carnid flies records for Germany are reported for the first time: Meoneura falcata Papp, 1997 and Meoneura flavifrons Papp, 1981. A bibliography comprises 63 publications containing original records of carnids from Germany.

Die Checkliste der deutschen Dickkopffliegen (Diptera Conopidae) umfasst 52 Arten. Sieben weitere Arten wurden in der Vergangenheit für Deutschland publiziert, sind aber unzureichend dokumentiert. Eine Bibliografie listet 231 Publikationen auf, die Angaben zu Conopiden aus Deutschland enthalten., The checklist of German thick-headed flies (Diptera, Conopidae) includes 52 species. Seven additional species have been published for Germany in the past but are insufficiently documented. A bibliography comprises 231 publications containing original records of thickheaded flies from Germany.

Axysta coeruleiventris (Macquart, 1835) Trimerina coeruleiventris Macquart, 1835: 529; type-locality: „ Du nord de la France ”; no information available about type material which might be deposited in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MATHIS & ZATWARNICKI 1995). Remarks. The type of A. coeruleiventris should be in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MATHIS & ZATWARNICKI 1995) but is not included in the type specimens listed by the MUSÉUM NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE (2021). Therefore, the synonym introduced by HALIDAY (1839) and repeated by all later authors, is herewith accepted., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2022, A Second European Axysta Species (Diptera: Ephydridae), pp. 159-168 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 68 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.17109/AZH.68.2.159.2022, http://zenodo.org/record/7160754, {"references":["MATHIS, W. N. & ZATWARNICKI, T. (1995): World catalog of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae). - Memoirs on Entomology, International 4: 1 - 423.","HALIDAY, A. H. (1839): Remarks on the generic distribution of the British Hydromyzidae (Diptera). - Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3: 217 - 224, 401 - 411. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745483909443252"]}

Hyadina viridula (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) Hydrina viridula Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 795; locus typicus not given [presumably France]; no information available about type material, type missing from coll. Robineau-Desvoidy (MATHIS & ZATWARNICKI 1995). Remarks. Hydrina viridula was described only very briefly by ROBINEAUDESVOIDY (1830): “Longueur, 2/3 de ligne. Petite; noire; un peu de cendré sur les côtés du corselet; abdomen d’un noir verdoyant; face d’un brun flavescent; pattes noires; ailes claires et sans tache.» This description does not allow any definitive diagnosis, but HALIDAY (1856) nevertheless identified this species as a synonym of Axysta cesta. This was corrected by LOEW (1860), who placed Axysta viridula sensu Haliday as a synonym to A. cesta and stated that Hydrina viridula Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830 cannot belong to Axysta. LOEW (1860) did not attempt to place Hydrina viridula Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830, however, and consequently, it should be treated as a nomen dubium of the genus Hyadina (stat. rev.). SCHINER (1863) presumably overlooked the work of LOEW (1860) when he placed Hyadrina viridula as synonym of A. cesta. This was adopted, for example, by MATHIS and ZATWARNICKI (1995)., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2022, A Second European Axysta Species (Diptera: Ephydridae), pp. 159-168 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 68 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.17109/AZH.68.2.159.2022, http://zenodo.org/record/7160754, {"references":["ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY, J. B. (1830): Essai sur les Myodaires. - Memoires presentes par divers savants a l'academie royale des sciences de l'institut de France et imprimes par son ordre [sciences mathematiques et physiques] 2: 1 - 813.","MATHIS, W. N. & ZATWARNICKI, T. (1995): World catalog of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae). - Memoirs on Entomology, International 4: 1 - 423.","HALIDAY, A. H. (1856): Errata. - Pp 342 - 346. In: WALKER, F. (ed.): Insecta Britannica. Diptera. Vol. III: xxiv + 352 pp; Reeve and Benham, London.","LOEW, H. (1860): Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Dipteren. Siebenter Beitrag. Die europaischen Ephydrinidae und die bisher in Schlesien beobachteten Arten derselben. - Programm der Koniglichen Realschule zu Meseritz 1860: 1 - 46.","SCHINER, I. R. (1863): Fauna Austriaca. Die Fliegen (Diptera). Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet von J. Rudolf Schiner. Theil II. Heft 9 / 10. - B. K. Gerold´s Sohn, Wien, pp. 81 - 288."]}

Key to European species of Ptilomyia Coquillett. 1 wing hyaline, dm-cu not dark infuscated; costal index I = 0.9-1.0; frons obviously blueish grey; abdomen densely grey dusted; ♂ terminalia as Fig. 3: epandrium small and broadly divided before cercus (Fig. 3: dep); surstylus complex (Fig. 3: su) with large cube-shaped lateral evagination and distinct anteriorly directed medial spine; hypandrium H-shaped (Fig. 3: hy); tip of phallus ending in one slightly sclerotised spine (Fig. 3: sph)............................ shoka Mathis & Zatwarnicki - wing slightly brownish, dm-cu distinctly brownish infuscated; costal index I may be 2 2 4 rows of acrostichal setae; costal index I angustigenis (Becker) - 6 rows of acrostichal setae; costal index I> 0.9; ♂ tergite 5 dusted and only slightly longer than tergite 4; ♂ terminalia as Fig. 2: epandrium narrow and divided before cerci (Fig. 2: dep), without keels; surstylus posteriorly directed, simple shaped with straight edges (Fig. 2: su); hypandrium U-shaped (Fig. 2: hy); tip of phallus simple, without any sclerotisation or spines (Fig. 2: ph)................................................................................. kairensis (Becker), Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2021, Taxonomic and faunistic remarks on European Ptilomyia Coquillett (Diptera Ephydridae), pp. 579-586 in Zootaxa 5068 (4) on page 584, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5709654

Ptilomyia shoka Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2017 Ptilomyia shoka Mathis & Zatwarnicki in Mathis, Zatwarnicki, Stuke & Deeming 2017: 675-676; type-locality: ��� United Arab Emirates, Al Kahri [Khari], Shoka lake (25��06.41���N, 056��02.67���E)���; HT ♂ [Germany, Berlin, Museum f��r Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universit��t, Mathis et al. 2017] Material examined: GEORGIA: 5♂♂ 7♀♀, 13.vii.2019, Algeti River 3.4 km nw Abrameti [41.634��N 44.469��E]; 1♀, 13.vii.2019, Algeti River n Partskhisi [41.579��N 44.567��E]; 1♂, 7.vii.2019, Aragvi River ne Zhinvali [42.112��N 44.778��E]; 2♂♂ 3♀♀, 7.vii.2019, Aragvi River w Bulachauri [42.036��N 44.746��E]; 7♂♂ 2♀♀, 30.vi.2019, Debeda River e Kirach-Mughanlo [41.334��N 45.068��E]; 1♀, 30.vi.2019, Debeda River n Khanji-Gazlo [41.357��N 45.005��E]; 1♀, 30.vi.2019, Debeda River w Didi Mughanlo [41.389��N 44.943��E]; 1♀, 9.vii.2019, Kura River 1.2 km n Metekhi [41.934��N 44.342��E]; 2♀♀, 9.vii.2019, Kura River 7.5 km e Khidistavi [41.965��N 44.220��E]; 1♂, 1.vii.2019, Teliankhevi river w Paldo [41.611��N 45.494��E]; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 1♀, 10.iii.2008, Al Kahri, Shoka lake [25.106��N 56.044��E], 310m. Remarks. Ptilomyia shoka was recently described from the United Arab Emirates, and its recent finding in Georgia is therefore somewhat surprising and indicates that this species has a much wider distribution than previously suspected. The records from Georgia originate from the sweeping of vegetation in river valleys. Distribution. Afrotropical: United Arabian Emirates (original material, Mathis et al. 2017); Palearctic: Georgia (original material)., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2021, Taxonomic and faunistic remarks on European Ptilomyia Coquillett (Diptera Ephydridae), pp. 579-586 in Zootaxa 5068 (4) on page 584, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5709654, {"references":["Mathis, W. N., Zatwarnicki, T., Stuke, J. - H. & Deeming, J. C. (2017) Order Diptera, family Ephydridae. A conspectus on shoreflies from the United Arab Emirates. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, 6, 636 - 761."]}

Ptilomyia kairensis (Becker, 1903) Atissa kairensis Becker 1903: 162; type-locality: ���Kairo���; syntypes 1♂ 3♀♀ [Germany, Berlin, Museum f��r Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universit��t]. Ptilomyia kairensis. (Cresson 1926, generic combination). = Atissa orsovana Enderlein 1922: 130; type-locality: ���Banat. Orsova an der Donau��� [Romania]; holotype ♀ [Germany, Berlin, Museum f��r Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universit��t] (syn. nov.). = Ptilomyia madeirensis Stuke 2012a: 212; type-locality: ��� Portugal: Madeira / Strand Canico de Baixo / [32��38���42������N, 16��49���33������W]���; holotype ♂ [Germany, Berlin, Museum f��r Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universit��t] (syn. nov.) ., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2021, Taxonomic and faunistic remarks on European Ptilomyia Coquillett (Diptera Ephydridae), pp. 579-586 in Zootaxa 5068 (4) on page 582, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5709654, {"references":["Becker, T. (1903) Agyptische Dipteren (Fortsetzung und Schluss). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 2,","Cresson, E. T. (1926) Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera (Ephydridae and Micropezidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 52, 249 - 274.","Enderlein, G. (1922) Eine neue Ephydride aus dem Banat. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 55, 129 - 130.","Stuke, J. - H. (2012 a) Neue Uferfliegen-Funde (Diptera: Ephydridae) vom Madeira-Archipel, mit der Beschreibung einer neuen Art. Studia Dipterologica, 17, 211 - 221."]}

Ptilomyia angustigenis (Becker, 1926) Atissa angustigenis Becker 1926: 26; type-locality: ���bei Novi am Strande der Adria��� [Croatia]; holotype ♀ probably lost (see Remarks below). Ptilomyia angustigenis. (Papp 1975, generic combination). = Ptilomyia orsovana auct., nec. Enderlein, 1922. Material examined: CROATIA: 1♀, 14.vii.2018, Čikola 1.2 km wsw Gradac [43.817��N 16.268��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 5.vii.2018, Čikola 1.4 km se Ključ [43.838��N 16.049��E]; 1♀, 14.vii.2018, Čikola 1.9 km wnw Cavoglave [43.791��N 16.315��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 14.vii.2018, Čikola 2 km w Otavice [43.841��N 16.239��E]; 2♂♂ 2♀♀, 5.vii.2018, Čikola 2.5 km ssw Drni�� [43.845��N 16.178��E]; 1♂ 2♀♀, 13.vii.2018, Čikola 2.5 km ssw Drni�� [43.845��N 16.178��E]; 1♀, 5.vii.2018, Čikola 2.8 km ese Drni�� [43.852��N 16.120��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 14.vii.2018, Čikola in Drni�� [43.857��N 16.160��E]; 2♂♂ 4♀♀, 25.vi.2017, ��uračica 5 km s Magić Mala [45.133��N 17.596��E]; 1♀, 25.vi.2017, fishponds 2 km s Oriovac [45.147��N 17.747��E]; 1♀, 24.vi.2017, fishponds nw Hrastovac [45.561��N 16.973��E]; 2♀♀, 27.vi.2017, floodplain Danube 1 km se Tikve�� [45.668��N 18.853��E]; 1♀, 27.vi.2017, floodplain Danube 1.5 km ne Kopačevo [45.612��N 18.800��E]; 1♂, 27.vi.2017, floodplain Danube 2.5 km n Batina [45.864��N 18.837��E]; 6♂♂ 4♀♀, 28.vi.2017, floodplain Danube 3.5 km ne Sarva�� [45.551��N 18.862��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 29.vi.2017, floodplain Danube 4.3 km ese Vukovar [45.337��N 19.059��E]; 2♂♂ 1♀, 28.vi.2017, floodplain Danube n Aljma�� [45.531��N 18.946��E]; 1♀, 28.vi.2017, floodplain Danube n Bijelo Brdo [45.524��N 18.874��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 29.vi.2017, floodplain Danube n Borovo [45.432��N 18.984��E]; 1♀, 28.vi.2017, floodplain Danube n Erdut [45.528��N 19.067��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 29.vi.2017, floodplain Danube n Ilok [45.230��N 19.380��E]; 1♂, 28.vi.2017, floodplain Drava n Kopačevo [45.608��N 18.789��E]; 2♀♀, 23.vi.2017, floodplain Sava 2 km e Sonja [45.365��N 16.726��E]; 1♀, 25.vi.2017, floodplain Sava s Davor [45.109��N 17.518��E]; 1♀, 25.vi.2017, floodplain Sava s Pričac [45.134��N 17.672��E]; 1♂, 23.vi.2017, floodplain Sava s Suvoj [45.372��N 16.687��E]; 1♂, 19.vii.2018, Krka 3.9 km nw Ljubotić [44.009��N 16.036��E]; 1♂ 3♀♀, 4.vii.2018, Krka n Lozovac [43.802��N 15.966��E]; 2♂♂, 8.vii.2018, Lake Vrana, lakeside n Pako��tane [43.924��N 15.506��E]; 3♀♀, 8.vii.2018, Lake Vrana, marsh 3.4 km n Pako��tane [43.939��N 15.516��E]; 2♂♂ 1♀, 10.vii.2018, Lake Vrana, marsh 4 km nne Pako��tane [43.945��N 15.527��E]; 2♂♂ 5♀♀, 10.vii.2018, Lake Vrana, marsh 4.5 km nne Pako��tane [43.939��N 15.548��E]; 1♀, 23.vi.2017, oxbow lake between Plesmo and Krapje [45.306��N 16.836��E]; 1♀, 22.vi.2017, river valley between Piljenice and Ilova [45.442��N 16.840��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 19.vii.2018, ��arena Jezero near Knin [44.027��N 16.223��E]; 2♂♂ 4♀♀, 6.vii.2018, small marsh 2 km sw Bićine [43.820��N 15.887��E]; CYPRUS: 1♂ 1♀, 29.vi.2016, creek e Goudi [34.993��N 32.445��E]; CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♂ 1♀, 29.vii.1993, Duchcov, 2 km E, deciduous wood [50.36��N 13.43��E], 220 m, det. as P. orsovana by Zatwarnicki, leg. M. Bart��k; FRANCE: 1♂ 2♀♀, 1.viii.2019, Etang de Gruissan [43.117��N 3.082��E]; 2♀♀, 30.vii.2019, L��Aude, 3 km w Roubia [43.249��N 2.758��E]; 1♀, 30.vii.2019, La Cesse, Cabezac [43.298��N 2.871��E]; 1♀, 1.viii.2019, rice field 4 km w Gruissan [43.113��N 3.038��E]; 1♂, 3.viii.2019, river nw Lagrasse [43.096��N 2.605��E]; 1♂ 4♀♀, 3.viii.2019, Ruisseau de Saint-Felix, Monts��ret [43.112��N 2.808��E]; 1♀, 1.viii.2019, salt swamp 4 km nwn Gruissan [43.129��N 3.047��E]; 3♂♂ 2♀♀, 25.vii.2019, wetland 1.5 km nw P��ri��s [43.282��N 3.059��E]; 2♂♂ 2♀♀, 30.vii.2019, wetland s Salleles d��Aude [43.248��N 2.955��E]; GEORGIA: 1♀, 7.vii.2019, Aragvi River ne Zhinvali [42.112��N 44.778��E]; 2♂♂ 6♀♀, 30.vi.2019, Debeda River e Kirach-Mughanlo [41.334��N 45.068��E]; 1♂, 30.vi.2019, Debeda River n Khanji-Gazlo [41.357��N 45.005��E]; 1♂, 2.vii.2019, Jandara reservoir 2.8 km se Mzianeti [41.451��N 45.212��E]; 1♀, 2.vii.2019, Jandara reservoir 4.7 km se Mzianeti [41.440��N 45.228��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 29.vi.2019, Kura River 2 km s Karajalari [41.599��N 44.960��E]; 1♀, 8.vii.2019, Kura River n Akhalsheni [42.005��N 43.723��E]; 3♀♀, 8.vii.2019, Kura River nw Akhalsopeli [42.013��N 43.765��E]; 3♂♂ 2♀♀, 7.vii.2019, Kura River nw Dzegvi [41.850��N 44.599��E]; 1♂, 9.vii.2019, Kura River se Gori [41.971��N 44.121��E]; 1♂, 29.vi.2019, Kura River. Rustawi [41.551��N 45,010��E]; 3♂♂ 3♀♀, 29.vi.2019, Kura valley se Rustawi [41.520��N 45.023��E]; 1♀, 2.vii.2019, Mariini Canal 3.4 km n Jandari [41.473��N 45.167��E]; 1♂ 1♀, 8.vii.2019, Soramula River 1.7 km ene Agara [42.047��N 43.841��E]; GERMANY: 1♂ 1♀, 1.viii.2013, Brandenburg, floodplain Oder, Reitwein [52.499��N 14.630��E]; 1♀, 17.v.2020, Lower Saxony, floodplain Elbe �� Wussegel [53.136��N 11.080��E]; 1♀, 17.vi.2020, Lower Saxony, Wymeerster Hammrich n Olldiek [53.164��N 7.226��E]; 1♂, 28.vi.2010, Sachsen-Anhalt, Salziger See, Teufe [51.470��N 11.673��E]; GREECE: 1♀, 24.x.2011, Lesbos, floodplain above Apothika [39.126��N 26.0853��E]; 1♂, 24.x.2011, Lesbos, Lake Metochi [39.226��N 26.189��E]; 2♀♀, 26.x.2011, Lesbos, Voulgaris e von Gavathas [39.281��N 26.0138��E]; ITALY: 1♂ 1♀, 31.viii.2004, Latina, Circeo, Sabaudia, Selva del Circeo, mixed forest pond [41.21��N 13.01��E], 10 m, det. as P. angustigenis by Zatwarnicki 2007, leg. Merz, Ceretti, Nadi. Remarks. Mathis & Zatwarnicki (1995) stated that the holotype of P. angustigenis is in Berlin, but it could not be found recently and was probably never actually deposited there (J. Pohl in corresp., May 2021). Becker (1926) noted that Kert��sz originally collected the type specimen and contrary to the other species described in the same work, did not state that the specimen was deposited in ���Meine Sammlung��� (���my ��� i.e. Becker���s ��� collection���). Therefore it is assumed that Becker sent the specimen back to Kert��sz, whose collection was deposited in Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest where it may have been destroyed in the 1956 revolution which saw the bombing of the main building of the museum (Evenhuis 1997), although it is possible that it may have survived within an acalyptrate collection which was being held elsewhere at the time (F��ldv��ri & Papp 2007). If the latter, however, it has not come to light since. At the locus typicus in Croatia P. angustigenis is common and is seemingly the only Ptilomyia species recorded in that country to date. Ptilomyia angustigenis was misidentified as P. orsovana by Beschovski (2009) and Papp (1975), and probably also by numerous subsequent authors. Published records standing under the name ��� P. orsovana ��� refer at least partly to P. angustigenis, including all of the records previously published by the present author. On the other hand, some of the published records of P. angustigenis may actually be of P. kairensis. Where the criteria used in the identification of species in past papers were not specified in detail it is extremely difficult to reliably interpret the published records. Based on the material presented here, however, P. angustigenis is widely distributed in Europe and is the only species known to occur in Central Europe. This minute species is easily overlooked, and this may explain gaps in the known distribution. Ptilomyia angustigenis has not so far been recorded from Scandinavia, European Russia, the British Isles or the Benelux region, however, which may indicate a northern (and probably eastern) distributional limit, with the most northerly records known to date being from north Germany at about 53��N. Ptilomyia angustigenis has mainly been recorded from freshwater wetland vegetation in standing waters or rivers. In Germany almost all specimens have been swept from Phragmites stands. At least regionally P. angustigenis appears to be a common species. Distribution. Palearctic: Bulgaria (Beschovski 2009, as orsovana auct., [?] Zatwarnick 1996 as orsovana auct.), Croatia (original material, Becker, 1926), Cyprus (original material), Czech Republic (original material, [?] Zatwarnick 1996 as orsovana auct.), France (original material, [?] Martinez 2002), Georgia (original material), Germany (original material, Stuke 2011 as orsovana auct., Stuke & B��hrmann 2013 as orsovana auct.), Greece (original material, Stuke 2014 as orsovana auct.), Hungary (Papp 1975, as orsovana auct.), Italy (original material, ([?] Canzoneri & Orlandini 1991, [?] Raffone 2001, [?] Rossi & Cesari Rossi 1979, [?] Zatwarnicki 2012), [?] Malta ([?] Gatt & Ebejer 2003), [?] Morocco ([?] Vitte 1988, 1991), [?] Poland ([?] Zatwarnick 1996 as orsovana auct.), [?] Portugal ([?] Rossi et al. 2013 as orsovana auct.), [?] Romania ([?] Zatwarnick 1996 as orsovana auct.), [?] Slovakia ([?] Zatwarnick 1996 as orsovana auct.), [?] Spain ([?] Canzoneri & Rallo 1996, [?] Ebejer et al. 2006, [?] Zatwarnicki & Blasco-Zumeta 2004), [?] Tunisia ([?] P��rvu & Zaharia 2007 as orsovana auct., [?] Popescu-Mirceni 2011 as orsovana auct.)., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2021, Taxonomic and faunistic remarks on European Ptilomyia Coquillett (Diptera Ephydridae), pp. 579-586 in Zootaxa 5068 (4) on pages 581-582, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5709654, {"references":["https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 4830020301 Becker, T. 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Paramyopa clementsi spec. nov. (Diptera, Conopidae) is described from South Africa (Northern Cape), and its diagnosis from the two other known species of this Afrotropical genus is set out. Nomenclatural acts Paramyopa clementsi spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zooank.org:act:28720591-141E-46D8-AFDA-3922BCE0BD48, Contributions to Entomology = Beiträge zur Entomologie, Bd. 71 Nr. 1 (2021)

Sicus indicus Kr��ber, 1940 rev. stat. ( Figs 1; 2 ) Sicus indicus Kr��ber, 1940: 244 (also 208 in key, and 225 in checklist). TYPE LOCALITY. ��� Himalaya (without precision). TYPE SPECIMEN. ��� Holotype. Himalaya ��� ♂; lost (Stuke 2004). Neotype. India ��� ♀; Jammu and Kashmir, Kulgam, Aharbal; 33.6441, 74.777; 2270 m. a.s.l.; 7.VII.2019; Aijaz A. Wachkoo leg. (Fig. 1O); AAW0001; GCSI. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� India ��� 1 ♀, 1 ♂; AAW0002, AAW0003; MNHN ��� 1 ♀, 1 ♂; same data as the neotype; AAW0004, AAW0005; coll. PJHS ��� 1 ♂; same data as precedent except: 25.VIII.2017; AAW0006; GCSI ��� 1 ♀; Uttarakhand, Badrinath; 3200 - 3600 m a.s.l.; Riedel leg.; ZSM; identified S. abdominalis by Stuke (2004). DISTRIBUTION. ��� All the recent and historical records of Sicus in the region, including all of those reliably recorded from mainland India, appear to be from the Himalayas, where indicus is the only species positively recorded to date. NEOTYPE DESIGNATION In order to stabilize the nomenclature, we herewith designate a neotype for Sicus indicus based on a female specimen collected in the Indian Himalayas. The specimen fits with the original description and originates from the same locality as stated for the holotype (���Himalaya���). A female specimen has been designated because currently within the genus Sicus only females can be reliably identified to species level (Stuke 2002). As a result of the present neotype designation, Sicus indicus Kr��ber, 1940 should no longer be treated as a nomen dubium but as a valid species (rev. stat.). DESCRIPTION Female neotype Measurements. Body-length. 11.5 mm; wing-length 8.5 mm. Head (Fig. 1B, C). Face and gena ferruginous brown, facial grooves shining, pale brown; gena bare, with abundant silver dusting; frons elongate, yellow, without distinct darker markings, covered with dense yellow dusting and with a few black setulae posterolaterally; central ocellar tubercle dark brown, clearly delimited from wider ocellar triangle which is yellow, as frons; vertical margins of frons lateral to ocellar triangle ferruginous brown, also clearly delimited from yellow frons; ocellar triangle with a few black setulae of varied lengths; occiput ferruginous brown, with abundant longer black setulae; medial occipital sclerite covered with black setulae; antenna yellowish-brown, dorsal subapical arista short and darker, short pilose (Fig. 1B, C); pedicel is the longest segment, about 2.75 �� length of scape and about 1.4 �� length of first flagellomere; scape and pedicel with short black setulae, scape with longer black setulae apically on outer face; pedicel with longer setulae on dorsal and outer lateral faces, shorter and less dense on inner-ventral face; first flagellomere bare; proboscis long, about 1.9 �� as long as dorsoventral depth of head in lateral view (Fig. 1A); proboscis geniculated just after mid-point; labrum and labium dark brown, with scattered fine, short black setulae; labellum blackish, labella shortly separated at tip and paler; maxillary palps dark brown, with black apical setulae. Thorax (Fig. 1 D-F). Scutum in dorsal view ferruginous brown with central pattern of four merged thick blackish stripes, and with uniformly distributed black setulae which become longer laterally (Fig. 1D); scutum with extensive golden dusting, most visible in anterior view; in anterior view, central longitudinal golden dusting stripe splits black medial longitudinal stripe into two black submedial longitudinal stripes (Fig. 1F); margins of scutum (i.e., postpronotum, lateral and prescutellar mesonotum, postalar callus) with relatively longer black setulae; scutellum ferruginous brown with sparse silver dusting and scattered black setulae, the latter becoming longer posterolaterally (Fig. 1D); narrow yellowish subscutellar ridge, golden dusted (Fig. 1E); mediotergite of postnotum blackish with abundant silvery to golden dusting, setulae absent; laterotergite ferruginous brown with golden dusting, setulae absent (Fig. 1D, E); pleura ferruginous brown except for anterolateral 1/3 of katepisternum and ventral 1/3 of meron blackish; notopleuron and dorsal 1/3 of katepisternum with black setulae, other pleura lacking setulae (Fig. 1E); pleura generally with fine yellowish dusting, less distinct on medially subshining anepimeron; calypter pale yellowish with short golden pile, and short blackish setulae at margin; haltere pale yellowish, slightly darker at base; spiracular fringe brown. Wing (Fig. 1G). Infuscated brownish, entirely microtrichose; venation brownish; tegula and costa with short black setulae, setulae on costa becoming shorter towards apex; wing-base not very obviously paler than rest of wing, although bases of radial vein R1, radial stem, medial vein M1, humeral vein, veins of basal cells and adjacent areas of membrane all somewhat paler yellowish; radial cell r4+5 open at costa. Legs (Fig. 1H, I). Coxae partly blackish; trochanters mostly blackish; femora ferruginous brown; tibiae more orange-brown; tarsi somewhat paler yellowish; coxae and trochanters with fine pale dusting; legs generally covered with black setulae of varying length; hind coxa with 7 - 8 longer black setulae on small sclerite on inner posterior margin, some nearly as long as apical width of coxa in hind view (Fig. 1I); hind femur with scattered longer setulae ventrally, with some equal to or greater than diameter of the hind tibia (Fig. 1H); hind femur anteroventrally shining and bare of setulae; tarsi medioventrally covered with dense golden dusting, with short black setulae in patches laterally, and patches of longer setulae dorsally; claws light brown, black apically; pulvilli and empodia pale yellow. Abdomen (Fig. 1 J-N). Entirely ferruginous brown except for laterally blackish tergite 1; tergites 4-7 with some darker brown areas; tergites evenly covered with black setulae except tergite1 medially bare, but with patches of conspicuously longer black setulae on bulbous lateral projections; setulae denser and longer on tergites 4-7; dusting obvious on tergites 1-4 in anterior view: tergite 1 with dense submedian dusting, subshining medially; tergites 2-4 dusted densely at anterior and posterior margins; tergites 3-4 obviously subshining medially; tergite 2 about as long as wide in dorsal view (Fig. 1J), about 1.5 �� as long as maximum depth in lateral view (Fig. 1A); tergites 3-5 all wider than long in dorsal view (Fig. 1J); theca on sternite 5 projecting ventrally about as far as ventrallydirected tip of abdomen (Fig. 1A, K), its height about equal to its maximum anteroposterior width at base in lateral view (Fig. 1K); theca base in lateral view almost as wide as lateral margin of tergite 5 (Fig. 1K, N); anterior face of theca gently convex in lateral view, mostly bare of setulae except towards posterior margin; posterior face of theca also convex in lateral view (Fig. 1K, N), entirely covered with short, thick, blunt palisade spicules arranged in about 9-10 uneven, broken rows, and with long fine setulae around margin (Fig. 1L); bristle field on posterior face of theca oblong crescentric, about 2.7 �� wider than vertical height in posterior view (Fig. 1L); bristle field on posterior face of theca about 1.2 �� wider than bristle field on sternite 6 (Fig. 1M); bristle field on sternite 6 having the shape of a narrower crescent, about 3 �� wider than high, with short, thick, blunt palisade spicules arranged in about 5-6 uneven, broken rows; sternite 7 posteriorly with small oval submedial sclerotized patches bearing a few short black setulae (Fig. 1M); syntergosternite 8 in lateral view with shining, curved blackish lateral spine about 1.6 �� as long as maximum width at base (Fig. 1N); two pairs of spherical spermathacea, each pair almost immediately uniting onto one or other of two longer spermathecal ducts (Fig. 1N). Male Generally similar to female except for normal sexual dimorphism: overall dimensions smaller (body-length 9.5-10.5 mm; wing-length 7.1-8.0 mm); generally appearing somewhat more shining but with more obvious areas of dense dull brownish-golden dusting; gena, face and anterior scutum and katepisternum with dull brownish golden dusting (Fig. 2B, C); pleura with finer yellowish dusting, obviously less distinct or absent on medially subshining/shining anepisternum and anepimeron (Fig. 2A); tergites 3-5 with obvious, dense dullgolden dusted bands in basal �� to 1/3 which may also extend laterally and/or medially (Fig. 2B, D); epandrium thinly dull golden dusted, partially concealed at rest within a curved ventral cup-like expansion of sternite 5; posterior half of sternite 5 expansion covered with short, close-set black setulae, together with scattered long black setulae (Fig. 2D); frons with variable brownish stripe anteromedially (Fig. 2C); coxae and trochanters dark brownish; tergite 2 about 1.7 �� wider than long in dorsal view (Fig. 2B) and about 1.4 �� longer than maximum depth in lateral view (Fig. 2A); genitalia not examined but unlikely to show any reliable characters, a situation which is also found in other Sicus species (Stuke 2002, Clements, unpublished). INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION Some variation in body- and wing-length, in male as given above and in female: body-length 10.5-12.5 mm and wing-length 8.1-9.0 mm respectively (n=3). Within-species morphological variation otherwise mainly comprises slight variation in colour characteristics such as the extent of blackish coloration on coxae and trochanters, and brownish marking on male frons. DIAGNOSIS Sicus indicus can be identified by the following set of characters: 1) scattered longer ventral setulae on the hind femora, some of which are equal to or greater than the width of the hind tibia (Fig. 1H); 2) wing-base not obviously much paler than the rest of the wing although it may be somewhat paler at the extreme base (Fig. 1G); 3) small sclerite on the inner posterior side of the hind coxa with 7 - 8 longer setulae, some of which are approaching the apical width of the hind coxa in length (Fig. 1I); 4) scutum in anterior view with a central golden dusting stripe which divides the black medial longitudinal stripe into two black submedial stripes (Fig. 1F); 5) anepisternum (and sometimes anepimeron) shining or subshining medially (Fig. 1E); 6) mediotergite completely or almost completely dusted (Fig. 1D); and 7) female with a broad protruding theca, the width of the posterior bristle field 2.7 �� its height (Fig. 1L), and with the posterior bristle field on the theca being 1.1 - 1.2 �� the width of the bristle field on sternite 6 (Fig. 1M). Of the species so far recorded from the Oriental and adjacent East-Palaearctic regions, the majority can readily be ruled out by the shape and configuration of the theca in the female. Comparison therefore needs to be made primarily with S. chvalai, S. abdominalis and S. ogumae, the theca of the last two species being most similar to that of S. indicus. Sicus indicus differs from these three species in the long ventral setulae on the hind femora, and in the pattern of golden dusting on the scutum. The blackish coxae and trochanters found in some specimens of S. indicus are also quite characteristic but are not a reliable character. The theca of Sicus abdominalis is very similar to that of S. indicus but the former has no setulae on the small sclerite on the inner posterior side of the hind coxa, and the anepisternum and anepimeron are more evenly dusted. Sicus chvalai is readily distinguished by the shape of the theca in the female, the posterior bristle field of which is more nearly semicircular, with its maximum width in posterior view being about 1.7 �� the vertical height. The width of the bristle field on the theca is also about the same as that of the bristle field on sternite 6. The mediotergite is largely shining in S. chvalai. The theca of Sicus ogumae is also somewhat narrower and more nearly semicircular, with the bristle field about 2.4 �� wider than the vertical height, although the difference in shape is less marked than in S. c hvalai. Other less reliable characters which would nevertheless tend to identify S. ogumae include fine scattered black setulae on the gena, a completely dusted anepisternum, unicolourous legs and fewer, shorter black setulae on the inner posterior sclerite of the hind coxa, all of which are less than �� the apical width of the coxa in length (see Stuke et al. 2020). It is not certain that male specimens of S. indicus will necessarily be distinguishable based on characters 1-6 above, although the long ventral setulae on the hind femora are otherwise only shared with S. ferrugineus., Published as part of Maqbool, Amir, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Stuke, Jens-Hermann, Akbar, Shahid Ali & Clements, David K., 2021, Neotype designation and redescription of Sicus indicus Kr��ber, 1940 (Diptera: Conopidae), pp. 197-203 in Zoosystema 43 (11) on pages 199-202, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a11, http://zenodo.org/record/4733929, {"references":["KROBER O. 1940. - Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Conopiden - VI. V. Die Conopiden der Orientalischen Fauna. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 11) 5: 203 - 245. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222934008527039","STUKE J. - H. 2004. - Anmerkungenzu einigen Arten der Gattung Sicus Scopoli, 1763 mit der Beschreibung einer neuen Art aus dem Altai. Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins 29 (3): 85 - 92. http: // entomology-iev. org / Mitt % 20 IEV % 202004 % 20 29 % 20 (3), % 2065 - 108. pdf, last consultation on 5 th July 2020.","STUKE J. - H. 2002. - A new species of Sicus from Central Europe (Diptera: Conopidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizer Entomologischen Gesellschaft 75: 245 - 252. https: // www. e-periodica. ch / digbib / view? pid = seg- 001: 2002: 75 259, last consultation on 5 th July 2020.","STUKE J. - H., KAHANPAA J., HAARTO A. & KAKKO I. 2020. - Sicus ogumae (Matsumura, 1916) recorded from Finland, new to Europe (Diptera: Conopidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 156: 117 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.31184 / M 00138908.1562.4022"]}

Genus Sicus Scopoli, 1763 Sicus Scopoli, 1763: 360. TYPE SPECIES. ��� Sicus ferrugineus (Linnaeus, 1761)., Published as part of Maqbool, Amir, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Stuke, Jens-Hermann, Akbar, Shahid Ali & Clements, David K., 2021, Neotype designation and redescription of Sicus indicus Kr��ber, 1940 (Diptera: Conopidae), pp. 197-203 in Zoosystema 43 (11) on page 199, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a11, http://zenodo.org/record/4733929

New records of 36 species in the conopid genera Aegloconops, Archiconops, Caenoconops, Conops, Euconops, Pleurocerinella, Schedophysoconops, Tammo and Tropidomyia are presented from the Afrotropical Region. Three species new to science are described: Conops occultus n. sp. (Ethiopia), Conops schachti n. sp. (The Gambia) and Pleurocerinella kirkspriggsi n. sp. (Cameroon). Primary types of 37 species have been investigated. The following 17 new synonyms are introduced: Conops bicolor Kröber, 1931 = Conops claripennis Camras, 1962 n. syn.; Conops elegans Meigen, 1804 = Conops capensis Wiedemann, 1819 n. syn. = Conops natalensis Macquart, 1846 n. syn. = Conops decipiens Kröber, 1933 n. syn.; Conops argentispatium Brunetti, 1929 = Conops congoensis Camras, 1962 n. syn. = Conops nigeriensis Camras, 1962 n. syn.; Conops braunsii Kröber, 1915 = Conops castaneus Brunetti, 1925 n. syn.; Conops rugifrons Karsch, 1888 = Conops camaronensis Kröber, 1939 n. syn.; Conops simplex Kröber, 1915 = Conops aureocinctus Kröber, 1915 n. syn.; Conops ferruginosus Kröber, 1915 = Conops concolor Brunetti, 1925 n. syn. = Conops fraternus Kröber, 1933 n. syn. = Conops atrimanus Kröber, 1939 n. syn. = Conops bicingulatus Camras, 2000 n. syn. = Conops tschirnhausi Stuke, 2012 n. syn.; Conops guineensis Kröber, 1915 = Conops brunnipennis Kröber, 1915 n. syn.; Conops nigritarsis Brunetti, 1925 = Conops conwayae Stuke, 2003 n. syn.; Physocephala longicornis Kröber, 1915 = Physoconops notatifrons Camras, 1962 n. syn.). Four species are treated as unrecognised (nomina dubia): Conops brunnifrons Kröber, 1915, Conops kerteszi Kröber, 1915, Conops nitidulus Bigot, 1891 and Conops platyfrons Kröber, 1915. A lectotype is designated for Conops castaneus Brunetti, 1925. Conops bicolor Kröber, 1931, misidentified as Conops rhodesiensis Brunetti, 1925 in the original designation by Kröber (1939), is selected and thereby fixed as the type species for Caenoconops Kröber, 1939 (under Article 70.3 of the Code). Physocephala longicornis Kröber, 1915 is transferred to the genus Schedophysoconops, thus becoming Schedophysoconops longicornis (Kröber, 1915) n. comb. Diagnostic keys are presented for Afrotropical Conopinae genera with ocelli, as well as for the subgenera and all Afrotropical species of Conops. Keys to Afrotropical species of Archiconops p.p., Caenoconops, Pleurocerinella p.p. and Tropidomyia are also compiled.

Gellergrimmellus fritzi spec. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 2A744921-9129-4B6C-A0E5-163E0AE6AC7D (Figs 1���13) Holotype ♀: (1) ��� China; Sichuan; Old Creek / field station; 17.viii.2016; / 32.484��N, 104.72��E; 1370 m; / Hand collecting; CJ Borkent; / FFP16CH089���; (2) ���Holotypus / Gellergrimmellus fritzi / spec. nov. ♂ / det. Stuke 2018 ���. Holotype is deposited in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, USA, San Francisco, (CAS). The holotype was initially kept in alcohol and dried afterwards. It is glued on a card-point and otherwise in good condition (Fig. 1). 1 ♂, 1 ♀ paratypes: 1 ♂ same data as holotype; 1 ♀ same date as holotype but collected by M. Hauser and ���FFP16CH088���. Paratypes are deposited in the collection of the author (Germany, Leer, PJHS). Description of holotype (♀): Length 4.9 mm. Winglength 4.3 mm. Head-height 1.2 mm. Antenna black to dark brown, with first flagellomere orange-brown ventrally and pedicel indistinctly orange-brown apically (Fig. 3). Frons broader than long, slightly concave, not projecting above eyes, smooth, with only some long black hardly-visible setulae laterally (Fig. 4). Frons and lunule black. Frons subshining. Face and gena light yellow to white. Parafacial, gena and antennal groove obviously silver dusted. Facial ridges only slightly dusted. Postcranium black in dorsal 2/3, clearly separated white in ventral 1/3. Adjacent to posterior margin of eye there is only an indistinct strip of grey dusting, the remaining postcranium slightly dusted to shining. Postcranium with black setulae. No setulae on a small area adjacent to eye margin but with scattered setulae on bottom portion of postcranium. Proboscis brown basally and whitish apically (Fig. 3). Frontoclypeal membrane small, hardly widened basally, light yellow and easy to distinguish from the darker clypeus. Thorax black to brown, without distinct colour contrast. Thorax microtomentose all over, with an indistinct grey dusted band extending from middle coxa to notopleuron (Fig. 1). Scutellum with 1 long apical seta and 2���3 lateral setae. Scutum with short black setulae. 1 notopleural seta, no postalar seta recognised. Postalar callus with 3 long black setae and no long setulae. 2���3 black setae posterodorsally on katepisternum, no seta ventrally. Wing hyaline to slightly brownish, lacking any distinct markings. All veins dark brown. Wing completely covered with microtrichia. Upper and lower calypters yellowish white, upper calypter with long white setulae on margin. Haltere white with a light brown base. Legs light brown, with basal half of tibiae and basal fore and middle tarsi white. Legs not dusted, and all with short, adpressed black setulae. Hind and middle coxae with 2���3 strong lateral setae. Pulvilli brownish white. Claws brown with distinct black tips. Empodium whitish yellow, about as long as pulvilli. Abdomen light brown. Tergite 2 with characteristic yellow lateral spots apically (Fig. 5). Abdomen covered with black setulae which are longer and more obvious from hind margin of tergite 3 to tip of abdomen. Abdomen subshining to shining. Maximum width of abdomen is at segments 4���6. Length: maximum width of tergite 2 = 2.1; length: maximum width of tergite 3 = 1.1. Theca slightly shorter than height of abdomen at segment 5 in side view (Figs 7, 12). Anterior surface of theca lacking setulae. Posterior surface of theca with closeset, short, blunt pallisade groups of spicules, arranged in 9 close-set horizontal lines (Fig. 12). Sternite 5 anteriorly lacking an elongation. Sternite 6 almost completely covered with short, blunt spicules which are arranged in 6���7 horizontal lines (Fig. 11). Female abdomen of holotype not macerated and therefore several characters could not be examined. Based on examination of a paratype, however, sternite 7 is slightly longer than broad, anteriorly rounded and with several scattered setae only at the posterior. Description of ♂: abdomen subshining to shining. Sternite 4 longer than broad, minute and not clearly delimited from membrane, with 3 black setae. Epandrium not fused behind cerci but with a slightly sclerotised connection at both sides of the epandrium (Fig. 8). Posterior margin of epandrium with long black setulae but no projecting tooth (Fig. 8). Epandrium distinctly dented-in laterally. Distiphallus shorter than epandrium but distinct, with dense black setae distally. Distiphallus basally with almost equal large flattened lateral evaginations (Fig. 9: edp). Each of these evaginations has a plate-like sclerotisation. Variability: There is a yellow brown marking beneath the vertex in the ♀ paratype. Thorax of the paratypes less dusted and therefore the dusting stripe from middle coxa to notopleuron is more distinct. Legs and abdomen dark brown in paratypes. ♂ paratype has black facial ridges. Diagnosis: As described for the monotypic genus. Etymology: The species epithet ���fritzi��� is derived from the given name of Fritz Geller-Grimm. Distribution: As described for the whole genus., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2019, Two new genera and two new species of Conopidae (Diptera) from China, pp. 301-317 in Contributions to Entomology 69 (2) on pages 307-308, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.2.301-317, http://zenodo.org/record/3713216, {"references":["STUKE, J. - H. 2018: Revisionary notes on Siniconops CHEN, 1939 (Diptera: Conopidae), together with a key to known species. - Oriental Insects 2018: 1 - 27."]}

Gellergrimmellus fritzi gen. et spec. nov. and Hauserimyia martini gen. et spec. nov. are described from Sichuan Province, China. A key to the Palaearctic and Oriental genera of Conopinae with a short proboscis is presented which includes both of the new genera described herewith. Nomenclatural acts Gellergrimmellus fritzi spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:2A744921-9129-4B6C-A0E5-163E0AE6AC7D Hauserimyia martini spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:73C2ED04-9AB4-4DF6-82D1-A1F8EC0BAF75, Contributions to Entomology = Beiträge zur Entomologie, Bd. 69 Nr. 2 (2019)

Hauserimyia martini spec. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 73C2ED04-9AB4-4DF6-82D1-A1F8EC0BAF75 (Figs 14���24) Holotype ♂: (1) ��� China; Sichuan; Old Creek / field station; 17.viii.2016; / 32.484��N, 104.72��E; 1370 m; / Light trap; M. Hauser; / FFP16CH091 ���; (2) ���Holotypus / Hauserimyia martini / spec. nov. ♂ / det. Stuke 2018 ���. Holotype is deposited in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, USA, San Francisco, (CAS). The holotype was initially kept in alcohol and dried afterwards. It is complete and in a very good condition (Fig. 14). 9 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ paratypes: 4 ♂♂ same data as holotype but collected with Malaise trap 17.���20.viii.2016, leg. M. Hauser, C. J. Borkent, T. Zhang, FFP16 CH 080; 1 ♂ same data as holotype but hand collected, FFP16 CH 088; 2 ♂♂ same data as holotype but hand collected at 18.viii.2016, FFP16 CH 094; 1 ♀ China, Sichuan, Old Creek field station along stream beside field station, 19.viii.2016, hand collected, leg. M. Hauser, FFP16 CH 100; 2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ China, Sichuan, Old Creek field station, 32.494��N 104.723��E, 1430 m, Malaise trap 17.���20.viii.2016, leg. M. Hauser, C. J. Borkent, T. Zhang, FFP16 CH 086. Paratypes are deposited in the collections of California Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the private collection of the author (Germany, Leer, PJHS). Description of holotype (♂): Length 9.2 mm.Wing-length 6.7 mm. Head-height 2.3 mm. Antenna orange-brown with pedicel and first flagellomere dorsally and arista black (Fig. 15). Frons (Fig. 16) broader than long, slightly concave, not projecting above eyes, smooth and lacking setulae. Frons brown with a black central stripe and a narrow black stripe laterally at eye margin which reaches anteriorly to a small black frontofacial spot. Lunule black. Frons with golden dusting in posterior half and along eye margin (in anterior view). Distinct rugose light yellow area between frons and ptilinal suture. Face yellow. Facial keel ventrally light brown. Gena yellow. Parafacial and antennal grooves obviously golden dusted, facial ridges and gena only slightly dusted. Postcranium yellow to yellow-brown, with a light brown area ventrally on bottom portion of postcranium. Adjacent to posterior margin of the eye there is an obvious stripe of golden dusting, remaining postcranium slightly dusted to shining. Postcranium with black setulae. No setulae on a small area adjacent to eye margin and bottom portion of postcranium. Proboscis light brown to yellow. Frontoclypeal membrane small, hardly widened basally, light yellow to light brown and easy to distinguish from the darker clypeus. Palp apically with two black setae. Thorax orange-brown with an almost completely black scutum (but with the margins of scutum orange-brown) and with dark brown spots on katepisternum and anepisternum. Distinct golden dusting on scutum, proepimeron and anatergite. Dusting stripe extending from middle coxa to notopleuron (Fig. 14). Scutum with short black setulae. Scutellum covered with short black setulae and with 2 scutellar setae. 1 notopleural seta and no postalar seta. Postalar callus with 2���3 long black setae and no long curved setulae. 1 black seta and 3 black setulae posterodorsally on katepisternum, no setae ventrally. Wing hyaline to slightly brownish, lacking any distinct marking (Fig. 21). Veins dark brown to yellowish brown. Subcosta contrasting light yellow. Basal medial-cubital crossvein bm-cu white. Wing mainly covered with microtrichia, but with no microtrichia at base of radial cell r 2+3 and basal radial cell br, basal medial cell bm and alula almost completely lacking microtrichia. Discal medial cell dm also basally lacking microtrichia. Upper and lower calypters yellowish white, upper calypter with long white setulae on margin. Haltere yellow to light brown with a slightly darker brown base. Legs yellowish brown. Hind femur slightly darker brown posterodorsally and hind tibia darker brown in apical half. Legs at most with inconspicuous golden to silver dusting. Legs all with short, adpressed black setulae. Hind coxa with 2 strong lateral setae. Pulvilli brownish white. Claws yellowish brown with distinct black tips. Empodium whitish yellow, about as long as pulvilli. Abdomen mainly black (Fig. 14). Tergites 2���5 with an orange-brown posterior margin. Tergites 1���2 laterally orange-brown. Protandrium and epandrium almost completely orange-brown. Abdomen with scattered short black setulae, except tergite 2 lacking setae. ♂ abdomen slightly to distinctly golden dusted in anterior view, with denser golden dusting at hind margins of tergites 2���5 and almost complete dense golden dusting on protandrium. Sternite 4 longer than broad, about 0.2 width of sternite 5, lacking any setulae. Description of ♂ postabdomen based on one dissected paratype: Epandrium as shown in Fig. 25. Epandrium not fused behind cerci but with a slightly sclerotised connection at both sides of epandrium. Posterior margin of epandrium laterally with long black setulae and a distinctly projecting and strongly sclerotised submedial tooth (Fig. 25: tep). Epandrium distinctly dented-in laterally. No hypoproct evident. Distiphallus shorter than epandrium but distinct, covered with dense microtrichia basally and with two fields of dense black setae distally (Fig. 27). Distiphallus basally with two lateral evaginations of different sizes (Fig. 27: edp), one finger-like, the other one larger and flat. Both are densely covered in microtrichia. Description of ♀: Abdomen subshining to shining, only tergites 2���5 with an inconspicuously dusted hind margin (Figs 17���18). Maximum width of abdomen is at segment 4. Length: maximum width of tergite 2 = 1.3; length: maximum width of tergite 3 = 1.2. Shape of theca as shown in Figs 20, 22. Anterior surface of theca with long black setulae. Apical half of posterior surface of theca with scattered short blunt spicules, those in the central area in short horizontal pallisade groups but not markedly arranged in long horizontal lines (Fig. 22). Sternite 5 anteriorly lacking an elongation. Sternite 6 almost completely covered with short blunt spicules which are also in short horizontal pallisade groups towards the centre but not arranged in horizontal lines (Fig. 23). Sternite 7 slightly longer than broad, anteriorly rounded and with a line of black setae at posterior margin only. Variability: Wing length 5.9���7.4 mm. Facial keel can be completely yellow or completely light brown. Postcranium can be completely yellow. Mediotergite can be almost completely black. One female paratype has an almost completely orange-brown scutum with only two black spots. Variable setation: there can be only 1 scutellar seta or scutellar setae may not be separable from setulae on scutellum. There can be 2 notopleural setae, and postalar setae can occur. Subcosta can be less conspicuously lighter than adjacent veins. Basal medialcubital crossvein bm-cu can be brownish. The female abdomen can be almost completely orange-brown. Diagnosis: As described for the monotypic genus. Etymology: The species epithet ���martini��� is derived from the given name of Martin Hauser. Distribution: As described for the whole genus., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2019, Two new genera and two new species of Conopidae (Diptera) from China, pp. 301-317 in Contributions to Entomology 69 (2) on pages 310-315, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.2.301-317, http://zenodo.org/record/3713216, {"references":["STUKE, J. - H. 2018: Revisionary notes on Siniconops CHEN, 1939 (Diptera: Conopidae), together with a key to known species. - Oriental Insects 2018: 1 - 27."]}

Gellergrimmellus gen. nov. (Figs 1���13) Type-species: Gellergrimmellus fritzi spec. nov., designated herewith. Diagnosis: Gellergrimmellus is easily identified by the combination of the following characters: three distinct ocelli (Fig. 4), frons and vertex smooth, lacking any obvious grooves (Fig. 4), proboscis shorter than head length (Fig. 3), arista reduced to only one visible aristomere (Fig. 2), wing completely covered with microtrichia, and tibiae dorsally with preapical setulae. At first glance Gellergrimmellus resembles some of the Australian Conopinae which may be very small, often have ocelli and can have a reduced and inconspicuous arista (although always of at least with two distinct aristomeres). Only Tanyconops SCHNEIDER, 2010 has a very short proboscis and lacks distinct grooves on the frons, but this has a very characteristic female postabdomen with an obviously prolonged and flattened tergite 7 (SCHNEIDER 2010: 241, Figs 321 & 242, Fig. 325). Tanyconops also lacks ocelli and has an obviously different wing venation (SCHNEIDER 2010: 241: 320). Etymology: The genus Gellergrimmellus is derived from the name ���Geller-Grimm���. The Latinized name is in the diminuative, as signified by the ending ���-ellus���, which refers to the small body size of the fly. This patronym is dedicated to Fritz Geller-Grimm (Frankfurt) to whom I am very grateful for his long-standing support of my dipterological work. The name Gellergrimmellus is to be treated as masculine. Description: Head: Arista with only one minute aristomere situated at tip of basal flagellomere (Fig. 2). Scape about two times longer than maximum width, apically and ventrally with black setae. Pedicel about four times longer than maximum width, completely covered with black setae, lacking a blunt ridge at base, and slightly expanded towards the apex. Basal flagellomere long, about three times longer than high, and almost as long as pedicel. Basal flagellomere pointed, ventrally lacking membranous area, dorsally lacking setae. Lunule between base of antennae and ptilinal suture distinct, distinctly shorter than width of scape. Eye reddish brown, lacking ommatrichia. Facets all of about the same size. Posterior margin of eye convex, lacking an indentation. Ratio of gena height / eye height (measurements are taken from head in lateral view) ��� 0.1. Ocellar tubercle distinct, with three ocelli (Fig. 4). No ocellar triangle. No frontofacial spot. Vertex only about 2/3 width of frons, separated from latter by a ridge, distinctly rounded anteriorly, bulging posteriorly, and covered with scattered black setulae (Fig. 4). Gena with a few long black setulae, parafacial with line of regularly arranged minute white and black setulae. Distinct facial grooves reaching mouth edge. Distinct facial carina reaching from base of antennae to a barely developed frontoclypeal tubercle. Ptilinal suture stretching a short way on either side beneath the antennal bases. The area surrounding the ptilinal suture is blackish. Mouth opening slightly tapering dorsally. Postcranium obviously invaginated. Postgena not widened and therefore not separated from occiput. Bottom portion of postcranium distinctly separated. No palp. Proboscis geniculated once only, at base. Labium shorter than headlength, hardly projecting out of mouth opening, distinctly thickened basally, anterior section not fused into a tube. Labrum not recognised. Labellum short, completely divided, broad, white and covered with long yellow setulae. Labellum with 8 indistinct pseudotracheae on each side. Head lacking setae. Thorax: Presternum distinct, about as wide as the compound basisterna. Presternum distinctly separated from basisternum. Basisternum broad, narrowed to a tip, lacking setulae. Proepisternum with 1 black seta ventrally, dorsally lacking setulae. Mediotergite convex, lacking setulae, and projecting distinctly over scutellum. Subscutellum not developed. Metakatepisternum, anepisternum and anepimeron lacking setulae. Subcostal-radial crossvein sc-r present (Fig. 6). Radial-medial crossvein r-m complete. Radius R 1 and R 2 terminate close together in costa, well beyond the end of the subcosta. Radius R 4+5 with a shallow and even curve in the distal section which is directed to a point beyond the wing tip. Radial cell r 4+5 pedunculate, with vein R 4+5 + M distinctly expressed and longer than radial-medial crossvein r-m. Cubital cell cup elongated (distinctly longer than vein A 1 +CuA 2) and pointed distally (cubitus CuA 2 and anal vein A 1 meet at an acute angle). Cubital vein CuA 1 and crossvein bm-cu distinctly separated. Alula minute, about 3 times broader than long, with white setulae on posterior margin. Vena spuria indistinctly evident only in cubital cell cup. Base and stem of haltere each with areas of sensillae. Knob of haltere with isolated white setulae. Posterior surfaces of fore and middle tibiae lacking obvious dusted fields distally. Areas with dense brown setulae ventrally at tip of fore tibia, and ventrally and posteriorly at tip of hind tibia. Middle femur posteriorly with regularly arranged, comb-like long setulae. Hind femur dorsally lacking outstanding long setulae. Tibiae dorsally with small preapical setulae. No setulae ventrally on tibiae. Femora ventrally lacking rows of short black setulae. Hind femur not obviously thickened in basal half. No lines of black, regularly arranged setulae ventrally on tarsi. Abdomen: Tergites 1���3 fused but distinctly separated from each other (Fig. 5). Lateral margins of tergites almost straight. ♂ abdomen with 5 tergites. Tergite 1 with obvious black setulae laterally on the bulbous projections. Tergite 2 distinctly elongated and parallel-sided, about 5 times as long as broad when viewed dorsally, and lacking obvious lateral tufts of setulae. Tergite 3 distinctly widened posteriorly, about 3.8 times as wide posteriorly than anteriorly. Sternites 1-5 present, sternites 1 and 2 not fused and distinctly separated. Tergite 5 and sternite 5 distinctly separated. Sternite 5 apically with a small field of thick setulae and several long black setulae. ♂ postabdomen with protandrium obviously broader than epandrium and therefore projecting over it. Sternite 8 distinctly delimited from protandrium. Ventrally the lateral edges of the protandrium are fused by a narrow sclerotised strip, which is not widened medially. Cercus distinct, completely sclerotised and covered with setulae (Fig. 8). No hypoproct evident. Posterior and anterior surstyli absent. No obvious strong black setae nor long black setulae which would indicate the base of a surstylus. Subepandrial plate not sclerotised nor covered with microtrichia and therefore not evident. Hypandrium slightly sclerotised or hyaline with the exception of two unique dorsolateral bars (Fig. 9: dbhy). These bars are curved upwards apically, bear a broad tooth basally and are connected by a small, slightly sclerotised hypandrial bridge (Fig. 9: hybr). No hypandrial lobe evident. Hypandrial bars fused distally to a hypandrial arm (Fig. 10: hya, hyr). Hypandrial membrane reduced, lacking microtrichia. Phallus sheath not fused dorsally; lacking any evagination or setulae. Postgonite small. Postgonite evagination not sclerotised, not projecting above distiphallus and lacking obvious microtrichia (Fig. 9: poe). No plate on inner side of postgonite evagination. Ring sclerite developed (Fig. 10: rs). No epiphallus recognised. Phallus apodeme longer than hypandrium arm. Ejaculatory apodeme elongate, lacking distinct attachment to sperm sac (Fig. 10: ea). ♀ abdomen with sternites 1���2 fused. Sternites 3���4 not protruding ventrally, posterior parts of sternites inconspicuous. Tergites 3 and 4 lacking any protuberances. Tergite 5 and sternite 5 fused laterally to form a syntergosternite with obvious theca below (Fig. 12). Posterior part of sternite 6 conspicuous sclerotised, slightly bent dorsally, and distinctly divided medially (Fig. 11: pS6). Tergite 7 distinctly bent ventrally, without a longitudinal gap, and with a hardly protruding blunt tooth in middle of posterior margin. Sternite 8 not fused with syntergite 8+9 and therefore not connecting on its sides. Tooth on syntergite 8+9 distinct, its base elongated anteriorly. Sternite 9 slightly bulging posteriorly, lacking strong long black setae but with several long setulae. Paired cerci distinct. Sack-like ventral protrusion of vagina with distinct annular sclerotisation. Sack-like ventral protrusion is hardly larger than annular sclerotisation and no evagination or additional sclerotisations are recognised. 2 pairs of round spermathecae, spermathecal ducts fused some distance before reaching spermathecae. Spermathecal ducts sclerotised a long distance before reaching spermathecae, this sclerotised part winding (Fig. 13). Distribution: The genus Gellergrimmellus is only known from the locus typicus of Gellergrimmellus fritzi. This location is placed in the Min Mountains (Minshan). The biogeographical classification of this location is not clear. Sensu HEISER & SCHMITT (2013) the locus typicus belongs to the transition zone of the Oriental and Palaearctic regions, whilst sensu CHEN et al. (2008) or KREFT & JETZ (2010) the locus typicus lies in the Oriental region. Biology: Nothing is known about the biology of this genus. Phylogenetic placement of Gellergrimmellus : Gellergrimmellus belongs in the subfamily Conopinae due to the following characters: Stylate arista placed apically on basal flagellomere (Fig. 2); no ocellar triangle; lunule distinct (Fig. 4); facial grooves reaching to mouth opening, divided by a central carina which widens ventrally; mouth opening tapering dorsally; postgena not widened and therefore not separate from the narrow occiput; chaetotaxy reduced, no obvious setae on the head; radial cell r 4+5 petiolate and R 4+5 + M distinct (Fig. 6); subcosta-radial crossvein sc-r well developed (Fig. 6); ♂ protandrium obviously broader than epandrium and therefore projecting over it. As discussed in detail under Hauserimyia a more detailed phylogenetic classification is not possible at the time of writing. Within the Conopinae Gellergrimmellus is an isolated genus with no related or similar genera known., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2019, Two new genera and two new species of Conopidae (Diptera) from China, pp. 301-317 in Contributions to Entomology 69 (2) on pages 302-307, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.2.301-317, http://zenodo.org/record/3713216, {"references":["SCHNEIDER, M. 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Meoneura mucki spec. nov. (Figs. 19–23) Holotype ♂: (1) „ SU: Amankutan / pasture / 39.19N / 66.55E 1300 m / Barták, 23.v.1989 “; (2) „ Holotypus / Meoneura mucki / spec. nov. ♂ / det. Stuke 2018“. The holotype is deposited in the collection of the Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic, Prague (CULSP). The specimen is glued on a card point and therefore only the left side of head without proboscis and thorax could be examined. Otherwise the specimen is in good condition. The posterior part of abdomen is dissected, macerated and stored in a glycerine microvial pinned underneath the specimen. Description of holotype (male). Length about 1.9 mm. Wing length 1.4 mm. Head height 0.4 mm. Head black with anterior half of frons yellow brown. Antenna black to dark brown. Arista without pubescence. Maximum eye length: maximum eye height = 0.9. Posteroventral margin of gena closest to eye margin: maximum eye height = 0.5. Frons slightly microtomentose to subshining, frontal triangle shining. Frontal triangle distinct, reaching about 1/2 distance from anterior ocellus to frontal margin. Face and proboscis cannot be examined due to preparation of the specimen. Postcranium slightly microtomentose. 1 distinct ocellar seta; supralunular setae convergent; 4 fronto-orbital setae (2 anterior mesoclinate, 2 posterior lateroclinate); 2 vertical setae; 2 mesoclinate postorbital setae; postocellar setae slightly divergent; 1 strong vibrissal seta; 2 supravibrissal setae, the ventral one indistinct and much smaller; 2 strong genal setae. Scutum shining to subshining, anterior 2/3 covered with black setulae. Scutellum microtomentose. Pleurae —as far as can be seen in the type—shining. Scutum with only 1 long posterior, 1 intermediate medial, and 1 smaller anterior dorsocentral seta. 1 postpronotal seta; 1 praesutural seta; 1 anterior and 2 posterior notopleural setae; 1 long and 1 inconspicuous short supraalar seta; 2 postalar setae; 1 praescutellar seta; 1 apical and 1 lateral scutellar seta. 1 seta at posterior margin of anepisternum. 1 dorsal seta and 1 ventral seta on katepisternum. Costa with no obvious setae beyond radial vein R 1. Wing hyaline, costa light brown, other veins white to light yellow. R 4+5 slightly curved to apex of wing. Knob of haltere whitish yellow, base of haltere brown. Legs black to brown. Fore femur apically with 3 and basally with 2 strong posteroventral setae. Hind femur apically with 1 strong anteroventral seta. Hind metatarsus ventrally with dense yellow golden setae. Length metatarsus 2: length tibia 2 = 0.6. Tergites with no obvious depressions or tufts of setulae. Abdominal pleura with scattered setae on abdominal segments 4–5. Abdominal segments 1–5 narrow, width of tergite 3: length of tergite 3 = 2.5. Tergites 2–4 each with 1 short lateral seta at the posterior margin, and with 2–4 indistinct setae at the posterior margin. Sternite 5 almost rectangular, about as long as broad (Fig. 23). Sternite 5 with 2 lateral setae, the posterior obvious long (Fig. 23). Midventral tergite 7 not recognized. Protandrium small, slightly shorter than epandrium and about 0.5 of length of tergite 5. Epandrium with few setae (Fig. 19). Maximum length dorsally in the middle of epandrium: maximum width of epandrium = 0.5. Cerci indistinct, not projecting, and with a few setulae only. Subepandrial plate hardly sclerotised with the exception of a x-shaped brown structure. Subepandrial plate with scattered, hardly visible fine setulae. Obvious proceeding of hypoproct with 4 large setae on the laterally projecting part and several fine setulae basally. No tooth on subepandrial plate. Surstylus as Figs. 19, 21–22: with a slightly broadened base, falcated, and with a broad apical tip. Surstylus with short, strong setae apically, and long setae ventrally. No lamella. Postgonite as in Fig. 20: distinctly sclerotised, with a small base, elongated, pointed, apically bent like a hook. Distiphallus —as far as can be seen in the type—short and with dense brown setulae. Diagnosis. Meoneura mucki belongs to the Meoneura obscurella -group that is characterised by a distinct process of hypoproct that has long distinct setae (Fig. 19). From all other species of this group M. mucki is easily distinguished by the unique falcated surstylus with a densely haired tip (Figs. 19, 21). Process of hypoproct has 4 large setae (Fig. 19). Mesoscutum and pleurae are shiny and contrasting with the microtomentose scutellum. If characters of setation turn out to be constant 3 notopleural setae, 2 postalar setae and 2 mesoclinate postorbital setae are remarkable characters. A key of the Meoneura obscurella -group is published by Stuke & Freidberg (2017). M. mucki will run to the last couplet 11 together with Meoneura prima (Becker, 1903) and Meoneura goldemari Stuke & Freidberg, 2017 but will not be assigned to one of these species due to the very different shape of the surstylus. Etymology. The „Kleine Muck“ is a participant of Wilhelm Hauf´s fairy tale „Die Karavane“. The Kleine Muck is a small misshapen figure and outsider as Carnidae are small inconspicious Diptera in which hardly anybody is interested in. Distribution. Meoneura mucki is hitherto only known from the locus typicus Aman-Kutan (near Samarkand, Uzbekistan). Meoneura neottiophila COLLIN , 1930 CZECH REPUBLIC: 5♂♂, 11.–25.iv.2009, Čertova voda, right lake shore [50°48’47.3’’N 14°13’35.3’’E], 130 m, Malaise trap, meat baited, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 7.–14.v.2012, Praha, Troja [50°07’15’’N 14°23’53’’E], 184 m, emergence trap baited with pig carcas, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 10.v.–4.vi.2011, Vráž nr. Písek near brook [49°23’59’’N 14’07’58’’E], 400 m, Malaise trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 7♂♂, 2.iv.–10.v.2011, dito; 1♂, 10.iv.–4.vi.2011, Vráž nr. Písek near brook [49°23’59’’N 14’07’58’’E], 400 m, Malaise trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 21.–24.vi.2010, Vráž nr. Písek, wood [49°24’8’’N 14°7’8’’E], 430 m, pyramid trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 3♂♂, 24.vi.–19.vii.2010, Vráž nr. Písek, wood [49°24’12’’N 14°6’57’’E], 400 m, pyramid trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 13.vi.–30. ix.2014, Vráž nr. Písek, wood, protein trap [49°24’12’’N 14°7’03’’E], 400 m, protein trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; TURKEY: 3♂♂, xi.2012 – iii.2013, Muğla, pine wood [37°09’41’’N 28°22’21’’E], 700 m, Malaise trap, leg. M. Barták & Š. Kubík, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 3♂♂, v.–vi.2013, Muğla, pine wood [37°09’41’’N 28°22’21’’E], 700 m, protein trap, leg. O. Dursun, coll. CULSP, PJHS. Diagnosis: Stuke & Freidberg (2017). M. neottiophila has not been reported from Turkey before. Meoneura obscurella (FALLÉN , 1823) Material: CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♂, 11.viii.–11.ix.2010, 5 km nnw of Uhlířské Janovice [49°53’27.5’’N 15°1’48.2’’E], 400 m, pyramid trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Stuke & Freidberg (2017) Meoneura occulta STUKE , 2015 Material: ITALY: 1♂, 4.viii.1988, Lago di Campotosto, 4 km s, pasture [42.29°N 13.20°E], 1300 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. PJHS. Diagnosis: Stuke & Bächli (2015). Prior to this record only the type material from Switzerland was known. Meoneura palaestinensis HENNIG , 1937 Material: TURKEY: 1♂, 8.–20.viii.2015, Dalyan, farm [36°48’54’’N 28°39’04’’E], 1m, Malaise trap, leg. O. Dursun, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 19.viii.–17.ix.2015, Muğla, University campus [37°09’42’’N 28°22’13’’E], 720 m, Malaise trap, leg. H. Kavak, coll. PJHS; UNITED ARABIAN EMIRATES: 4♂♂, 1.–30.vi.2016, Houbara protected area [24.08°N 52.97°E], AD 1021, Malaise trap, leg. A. Saji & A. van Harten, coll. PJHS. Diagnosis: Stuke & Freidberg (2017). These are the first records of M. palaestinensis from Turkey. Meoneura pappi STUKE , 2015 Material: AUSTRIA: 1♂, 31.vii.1988, Heiligenblut [47.00°N 12.46°E], 1700 m, on Compositae, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; CZECH REPUBLIC: 3♂♂, 5.–12.x.1995, 5 km w of Uhlířské Janovice, damp meadow [49.53°N 15.03°E], 460 m, pan trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 16.–17.vi.2005, Krkonoše, Labská and Pančavská louka [50°46’07’’N 15°32’31’’E], 1340 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 2♂♂, 12.–13.viii.2005, Krkonoše, Labská bouda environment [50°46’18.6’’N 15°32’47.2’’E], 1300 m, pan trap +sweeping, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 23.–26.v.2001, Krkonoše, Labská louka [50°46’11’’N 15°32’32’’E], 1350 m, pan trap, leg. J. Vaněk, coll. CULSP; 4♂♂, 3.–4.vii.2005, Krkonoše, Luční hora (maringotka) [50°43’14.4’’N 15°41’00.9’’E], 1450 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 3♂♂, 2.viii.2007, Krkonoše, Obří důl nr. brook [50°43’36’’N 15°43’40’’E], 950 m, pan trap +sweeping, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 12.–13.viii.2005, Krkonoše, Pančavská louka [50°46’06’’N 15°32’31’’E], 1330 m, pan trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 2♂♂, ix.2008, Krkonoše, Slunečná stráň, meadow [50°38’00’’N 15°49’30.4’’E], 650 m, pan trap, leg. J. Vaněk, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 22.–24. vii.2006, Lrkonoše Mountains, Labská rokle near brook [50°46’20’’N 15°32’45’’E], 1330 m, pan trap +sweeping, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 2♂♂, 10.vi.1995, MS Beskydy, Muřinkový vrch [49.31°N 18- 39°E], 950 m, pan trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; ITALY: 1♂, 5.vii.2011, Passo Nigra, meadow and wood [46°26’39’’N 11°35’18’’E], 1700 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 8.viii.1988, Passo Rolle, alpine meadow [46.13°N 11.42°E], 1900 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 4. vii.2011, Weisslahnbad, edge of forest [46°28’40’’N 11°34’11’’E], 1400 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; SLOVAKIA: 1♂, 28.vii.2002, Nizké Tatry Mountains [7083], alpine zone between Dereše Mountain and Ďumbier Mt., 1700–2000 m, leg. J. Farkač, K. Farkačová, V. Zedek, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Stuke & Bächli (2015). M. pappi is herewith reported the first time from Austria and Slovakia. Meoneura prima (BECKER , 1903) Material: ALGERIA: 2♂♂, 24.–28.x.2015, Ghardaia garden [32°30’24’’N 3°37’43’’E], 520 m, leg. B. Aissa, coll. CULSP, PJHS; CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♂, 9.x.–17.xi.2011, Kunice [49°56’1.4’’N 14°40’7.5’’E], 435 m, pyramid trap meat & fruit, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; UZBEKISTAN: 2♂♂, 18.v.1989, Chimgan, alpine meadow [41.38°N 70.06°E], 1800 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 18.v.1989, Karamazar, alpine meadow [41.30°N 69.49°E], 800 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Stuke & Freidberg (2017) M. prima has not been known from Algeria before. Meoneura pseudoflavifacies PAPP , 1997 Material: BULGARIA: 7♂♂, 21.vii.1987, Sliven, 13 km n, damp valley [42.49°N 26.16°E], 700 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; ITALY: 2♂♂, 12.vii.1990, Cesana, mixed wood [44.57°N 6.47°E], 1000 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS. Diagnosis: Stuke & Bächli (2015). These are the first records of M. pseudoflavifacies from Bulgaria. Meoneura triangularis COLLIN , 1930 Material: CZECH REPUBLIC: 2♂♂, 11.viii.–11.ix.2010, 5 km nnw of Uhlířské Janovice [49°53’27.5’’N 15°1’48.2’’E], 400 m, pyramidal trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 2.iv.–10.v.2011, Vráž nr. Písek near brook [49°23’59’’N 14’07’58’’E], 400 m, Malaise trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 16.–20.vi.2008, Vráž nr. Písek, damp meadow [49°24’12’’N 14°7’13’’E], 430 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; TURKEY: 6♂♂, xi.2012 – iii.2013, Muğla, pine wood [37°09’41’’N 28°22’21’’E], 700 m, protein trap, leg. M. Barták & Š. Kubik, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 21.–24.ix.2012, Muğla, University campus, 700 m [37°09’42’’N 28°22’21’’E], 700 m, pan trap, leg. M. Barták & Š. Kubik, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 21.–24.ix.2012, Muğla, University campus, 700 m [37°09’42’’N 28°22’21’’E], 700 m, Malaise trap, leg. M. Barták & Š. Kubik, coll. PJHS. Diagnosis: Stuke & Freidberg (2017). M. triangularis has not been reported from Turkey before. Meoneura vagans (FALLÉN , 1823) Material: BULGARIA: 1♂, 23.vi.2016, 9 km nee of Dospat, meadow nr wood [41°40’13’’N 24°15’50’’E], 1170 m, leg. M. Barták & Š. Kubík, coll. CULSP; CZECH REPUBLIC: 4♂♂, 11.viii.–11.ix.2010, 5 km nnw of Uhlířské Janovice [49°53’27.5’’N 15°1’48.2’’E], 400 m, pyramidal trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 11.vii.–11.viii.2010, 5 km w of Uhlířské Janovice [49°53’28’’N 15°01’48’’E], 410 m, pyramidal trap, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 5.–12.x.1995, 5 km w of Uhlířské Janovice, damp meadow [49.53°N 15.03°E], 460 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 17.–18.vii.2005, Bystřice near Třinec, shore of Olše river [49°38’08’’N 18°42’46’’E], leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 23.–26.v.2001, Krkonoše, Labská louka [50°46’11’’N 15°32’32’’E], 1350 m, pyramid trap, leg. J.Vaněk, coll. CULSP; 2♂♂, viii.2008, Krkonoše, Slunečná stráň, meadow [50°38’00’’N 15°49’30.4’’E], 650 m, pyramid trap, leg. J.Vaněk, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 15.–22.v.2012, Praha, Troja [50°07’15’’N 14°23’53’’E], 184 m, emergence trap baited with pig carcas, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 26. iv.–2.v.2012, dito; 1♂, 22.–29.v.2012, Praha, Troja [50°07’15’’N 14°23’53’’E], 184 m, emergence trap baited with pig carcas, leg. M. Barták, coll. PJHS; 3♂♂, 16.–20.vi.2008, Vráž nr. Písek, damp meadow [49°24’12’’N 14°7’13’’E], 430 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 30.v.–3.vi.2005, Vráž u Písku, damp meadow [49°24’13’’N 14°07’15’’E], 400 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 22.v.1995, Vráž u Písku, near pond [49.23°N 14.08°E], 400 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Collin (1930).

Meoneura joedaltoni spec. nov. (Figs. 15���18) Holotype ♂: (1) ���I: Amatrice-5kmS, pi- / ne wood nr.pasture / 42.39N / 13.20E 1700 m / Bart��k 3.viii.1988 ���; (2) ��� Holotypus / Meoneura joedaltoni / spec. nov. ♂ / det. Stuke 2018���. The holotype is deposited in the collection of the Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic, Prague (CULSP). The specimen is glued on a card. Otherwise the specimen is in good condition. The posterior part of abdomen is dissected, macerated and stored in a glycerine microvial pinned underneath the specimen. Description of holotype (male). Length about 1.5 mm. Wing length 1.2 mm. Head height 0.4 mm. Face, anterior half of frons and gena below the eye orange brown. Posterior half of frons brown with frontal triangle black. Occiput and main part of gena black. Antenna brown. Arista without pubescence. Maximum eye length: maximum eye height = 1.0. Posteroventral margin of gena closest to eye margin: maximum eye height = 0.6. Frons slightly microtomentose, slightly microtomentose. Frontal triangle distinct, reaching about 1/3 distance from anterior ocellus to frontal margin. Face microtomentose. Carina broad, almost as broad as fore tibia. Postcranium microtomentose. Prementum and palpus cannot be examined at the holotype due to the preparation. 1 distinct ocellar seta; supralunular almost parallel; 4 fronto-orbital setae (2 anterior mesoclinate, 2 posterior lateroclinate), the posterior mesoclinate seta short, only 1/3 of the length of the anterior mesoclinate seta. Perhaps this short seta is an additional anterior mesoclinate seta and another larger mesoclinate seta is broken (on both sides of the head). 2 vertical setae; 2 mesoclinate postorbital setae; postocellar setae slightly divergent; 1 strong vibrissal seta; supravibrissal setae incomplete in the holotype; 1 strong and 2 slightly smaller genal setae. Scutum microtomentose, covered with short, semiadpressed black setulae. Scutellum microtomentose. Pleurae���as far as can be seen in the type���microtomentose. Scutum with 1 long posterior dorsocentral seta only. 2 postpronotal setae; 1 praesutural seta; 2 notopleural setae; 1 supraalar seta; 2 postalar setae; 1 praescutellar seta; 1 apical and 1 lateral scutellar seta. Setae on katepisternum and anepisternum cannot be examined in holotype. 1 dorsal seta and 1 ventral seta on katepisternum. Costa with no obvious setae beyond radial vein R 1. Wing hyaline, veins light yellow to yellow brown. R 4+5 slightly curved to apex of wing. Haltere brown, base of haltere brown. Legs black to brown. Fore femur basally with 2 and apically with 2 strong posteroventral setae. Hind femur apically with 1 strong anteroventral seta. All coxae with single inconspicuous black setae. Hind metatarsus ventrally with dense yellow golden setae. Length metatarsus 2: length tibia 2 = 0.5. Tergites with no obvious depressions or tufts of setulae. Abdominal pleura with scattered setae on abdominal segments 3���5. Abdominal segments 1���5 narrow, width of tergite 3: length of tergite 3 = 3.1. Tergites 2���5 each with 1 distinct lateral seta at the posterior margin, and tergite 5 with 2 setae at the posterior margin. Sternite 5 wider than long; the posterior margin slightly concave (Fig. 18). Sternite 5 with scattered setae in the posterior half. Midventral tergite 7 distinct. Protandrium small, shorter than epandrium and about 0.4 of length of tergite 5. In the holotype the protandrium is almost completely hidden by tergite 5. Epandrium with four outstanding lateral setae���the basal distinctly longer than the three other���and one smaller setae (Fig. 15). Maximum length dorsally in the middle of epandrium: maximum width of epandrium = 0.4. Cerci indistinct, not projecting, and no setulae recognized. Subepandrial plate distinctly sclerotised. No setula recognized on subepandrial plate. No proceeding of hypoproct. No tooth on subepandrial plate. Surstylus as in Fig. 16: large, parallel sided, anteriorly rounded. Surstylus with few setulae only. No lamella. Postgonite as in Fig. 17: distinctly sclerotised, broad, hardly elongated, dorsoapically pointed. Distiphallus small, inconspicuous, curved, longer than epandrium and surstylus, covered with dense light brown setulae. Basiphallus obviously sclerotised, long, narrow, at its base widened. Diagnosis. An exciting character of M. joedaltoni is the completely brown halter that is otherwise only known from European Meoneura elongella Zetterstedt, 1838, Nearctic M. nigrifrons Malloch, 1915 and Nearctic M. wirthi Sabrosky, 1959. While the two Nearctic species have completely different structures at the postabdomen (cf. Sabrosky 1959) the European M. elongella is only known from female specimens. The most obvious character to distinguish the holotype of M. joedaltoni and a female of M. elongella from Norway is the more yellow coloured head (face, gena at eye margin and about half of the frons) of M. joedaltoni. This character is important in other Meoneura species, for example to distinguish the closely related species of the M. flavifacies -group. It is described in Zetterstedt��s description of M. elongella. Another obvious character is the higher face between antennal groove and upper mouth opening (higher than fore tibia diameter) in M. joedaltoni. In regard to the postabdomen, Meoneura joedaltoni belongs to the Meoneura palaestinensis -group sensu Stuke & Freidberg (2017) that is characterised by a broad and anteriorly rounded surstylus and the lack of an adjected lamella (Fig. 16). M. joedaltoni is easily identified by this unique combination of characters: (1) face and anterior half of frons orange yellow; (2) carina about as broad as fore tibia; (3) scutum and scutellum distinctly microtomentose; (4) 1 dorsocentral only; (5) haltere completely brown; (6) epandrium with 1 outstanding and 3 distinct setae (Fig. 15); (7) cercus indistinct and without recognized setae; (8) surstylus as in Fig. 16: large, almost as long as epandrium, parallel sided, not narrowing basally, apically rounded, not tapering and not hyaline apically; (9) hypoproct without any proceeding; (10) sternite 5 slightly wider than long, hind margin slightly concave (Fig. 18). A key of the Meoneura palaestinensis -group was published by Stuke & Freidberg (2017). M. joedaltoni will run to the last couplet 4 together with M grimmorum Stuke & Freidberg, 2017 and M. palaestinensis Hennig, 1937, but will not be assigned to one of these species due to the very different shape of the surstylus and the combination of characters mentioned above. Etymology. The species is named after Joe Dalton, the smallest of the four Dalton brothers, who appear in the Lucky Luke comic book series of Maurice de Bevere (Morris) and Ren�� Goscinny. Joe is the smallest of the four Dalton brothers as Meoneura joedaltoni is one of the smallest Acalyptratae. Distribution. Meoneura joedaltoni has been caught only at the locus typicus, a pine wood 5 km south of Amatrice (Latium, Italy). The coordinates of the label don��t fit exactly to this description but are about 4 km ssw of Amatrice. Meoneura lacteipennis (FALL��N , 1823) Material: CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♂, 22.v.1995, Vr��ž u P��sku, near pond [49.23��N 14.08��E], 400 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; TURKEY: 1♂, 17.���22.v.2011, Muğla, University campus, 700 m [37��09���42������N 28��22���21������E], 700 m, pan trap +sweeping, leg. M. Bart��k & ��. Kubik, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Collin (1930). Meoneura lamellata COLLIN , 1930 Material: CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♂, 30.vi.���7.vii.2015, Praha, Troja [50��07���15������N 14��23���53������E], 184 m, emergence trap, pig caracas, exp. 9.xii.2014, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. PJHS; 1♂, 27.v.���2.vi.2015, dito, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 22.���29.v.2012, Praha, Troja [50��07���15������N 14��23���53������E], 184m, emergence trap baited with pig caracas, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 27.vi.���3.vii.2012, dito. Diagnosis: Collin (1930). M. lamellata is new for the Czech Republic., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann & Bart��k, Miroslav, 2019, Records of Carnidae from the collection of Miroslav Bart��k (Diptera: Carnidae), with the description of five new species, pp. 326-346 in Zootaxa 4567 (2) on pages 338-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/2594992, {"references":["Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Insecta Lapponica. Sectio tertia. Leipzig, Leopoldi Voss, pp. 477 - 868.","Malloch, J. R. (1915) Four new North American Diptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 28, 45 - 48.","Sabrosky, C. W. (1959) The Nearctic species of the filth fly genus Meoneura (Diptera, Milichiidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 52, 17 - 26. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 52.1.17","Stuke, J. - H. & Freidberg, A. (2017) The genera Meoneura Nitzsch and Carnus Rondani (Diptera: Carnidae) in Israel, with the description of ten new species, new records and identification keys. 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Meoneura gnomi spec. nov. (Figs. 11–14) Holotype ♂: (1) „ SU: Amankutan / pasture / 39.19N / 66.55E 1300 m / Barták, 23.v.1989 “; (2) „ Holotypus / Meoneura gnomi / spec. nov. ♂ / det. Stuke 2018“. The holotype is deposited in the collection of the Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic, Prague (CULSP). The specimen is glued on a card point and therefore only the left side of the thorax could be examined. Otherwise the specimen is in good condition. The posterior part of abdomen is dissected, macerated and stored in a glycerine microvial pinned underneath the specimen. Description of holotype (male). Length about 1.8 mm. Wing length 1.7 mm. Head height 0.4 mm. Head black, immediately above the lunula a small yellow brown margin. Antenna black to dark brown. Arista without pubescence. Maximum eye length: maximum eye height = 0.9. Posteroventral margin of gena closest to eye margin: maximum eye height = 0.4. Frons slightly microtomentose, frontal triangle shining to subshining. Frontal triangle distinct, reaching about 1/2 distance from anterior ocellus to frontal margin. Face microtomentose. Carina narrow. Postcranium microtomentose. Prementum longer and wider than labellum. Palpus brown, about 1/2 as long as the haustellum. 1 distinct ocellar seta; supralunular setae convergent; 4 fronto-orbital setae (2 anterior mesoclinate, 2 posterior lateroclinate); 2 vertical setae; 2 mesoclinate postorbital setae; postocellar setae parallel; 1 strong vibrissal seta; 2 supravibrissal setae, both of about the same size; 1 strong and 2 slightly smaller genal setae. Scutum microtomentose, covered with short, semiadpressed black setulae. Scutellum microtomentose. Pleurae subshining to microtomentose. Scutum with 1 long posterior and 1 small anterior dorsocentral seta. 1 postpronotal seta; 1 praesutural seta; 2 notopleural setae; 1 supraalar seta; 2 postalar setae; 1 praescutellar seta; 1 apical and 1 lateral scutellar seta. 1 seta at posterior margin of anepisternum. 1 dorsal seta and 1 ventral seta on katepisternum. Costa with no obvious setae beyond radial vein R 1. Wing hyaline, veins light yellow to yellow brown. R 4+5 slightly curved to apex of wing. Knob of haltere whitish yellow, base of haltere brown. Legs black to brown. Fore femur basally with 3 strong posteroventral setae. Hind femur apically with 1 strong anteroventral seta. All coxae with single inconspicuous black setae. Hind metatarsus ventrally with dense yellow golden setae. Length metatarsus 2: length tibia 2 = 0.6. Tergites with no obvious depressions or tufts of setulae. Abdominal pleura with scattered setae on abdominal segments 4–5. Abdominal segments 1–5 narrow, width of tergite 3: length of tergite 3 = 2.8. Tergites 2–5 each with 1 distinct lateral seta at the posterior margin, and tergite 5 with 4 setae at the posterior margin. Sternite 5 almost semicircular (Fig. 14). Sternite 5 with 1 large and some smaller lateral setae. Midventral tergite 7 not recognized. Protandrium small, about as long as epandrium and about 0.5 of length of tergite 5. In the holotype the protandrium is almost completely hidden by tergite 5. Epandrium with 1 outstanding lateral seta and several smaller setae (Fig. 11). Maximum length dorsally in the middle of epandrium: maximum width of epandrium = 0.7. Cerci distinctly projecting, and with a few setulae only. Subepandrial plate hardly sclerotised with the exception of a x-shaped brown structure. No setula recognized on subepandrial plate. No proceeding of hypoproct. No tooth on subepandrial plate. Surstylus as Figs. 11–12: elongated and slightly longer than epandrium, almost parallel sided, sclerotized basally and almost hyaline apically, tip rounded. Surstylus apically with several strong setae mixed with smaller setulae, basally with small setulae only. No lamella. Postgonite as in Fig. 13: distinctly sclerotised, with a slightly broadened base, slightly elongated, pointed, apically bent like a hook. Distiphallus longer than epandrium and surstylus, covered with short, broad setulae that form a dark surface over almost the complete distiphallus. Basiphallus not recognized. Diagnosis. At first glance Meoneura gnomi is recognised by the unique elongated surstylus (Figs. 11, 12) which is longer than epandrium, basally sclerotised and apically almost hyaline, and covered with dense setulae apically. Meoneura krivosheinae Ozerov, 1991 has a similar long surstylus that is sclerotised basally and hyaline apically. But the surstylus of M. krivosheinae species is constricted medially, about twice as long as epandrium, and has a sclerotised base with some obvious setae (cf. Ozerov 1991: 8, Fig. 5). The Nearctic Meoneura forcipata Sabrosky, 1959 has an elongated surstylus and no lamella, too, and resembles M. gnomi in this regard. But M. forcipata has a different shaped surstylus and is densely covered with short setulae apically (Sabrosky 1 959: 21, Fig. 8). Etymology. This term „gnomi“ is derived from the noun „gnom“. Gnoms are dwarf-like humanoids living underground. Gnoms are first introduced in the literature in the 16th century by Paracelsus (Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim). As Carnidae belongs to the smallest Acalyptratae, gnoms are the smallest humanoids. Distribution. Meoneura gnomi is hitherto only known from the locus typicus Aman-Kutan (near Samarkand, Uzbekistan). Meoneura helvetica PAPP , 1997 Material: AUSTRIA: 2♂♂, 31.vii.1988, Heiligenblut [47.00°N 12.46°E], 1700 m, on Compositae, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; FRANCE: 1♂, 12.vii.1990, Montgenevre, spruce wood [44.56°N 6.43°E], 1800 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; ITALY: 2♂♂, 1.viii.1988, Lago di S. Croce, deciduous wood near lake [46.07°N 12.20°E], leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 5♂♂, 8.viii.1988, Passo Sella, forest boundary [46.26°N 11.46°E], 1900 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; SPAIN: 6♂♂, 15.viii.2006, Sierra Nevada, Puerto Ragua, near brook [37°07’01’’N 03°01’48’’W], 2000 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS. Diagnosis: Stuke & Freidberg (2017). M. helvetica is here reported from Austria and France for the first time. Meoneura hungarica PAPP , 1977 Material: TURKEY: 2♂♂, 23.v.2011, 12 km sw of Muğla [37°7’40’’N 28°16’28’’E], 660 m, on Ferula communis, leg. M. Barták & Š. Kubik, coll. PJHS; 1♂, 23.v.2011, Muğla, University campus, 710 m [37°09’39’’N 28°22’20’’E], 710 m, leg. M. Barták & Š. Kubik, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Stuke & Freidberg (2017). These are the first records of M. hungarica from Turkey.

Meoneura baechlii spec. nov. (Figs. 7���10) Holotype ♂: (1) ���I: Mte. Terminillo / meadow nr. wood / 42.26N / 13.07E 2000 m / Bart��k, 4.viii.1988 ���; (2) ��� Holotypus / Meoneura baechlii / spec. nov. ♂ / det. Stuke 2018���. The holotype is deposited in the collection of the Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic, Prague (CULSP). The specimen was glued on a card point and the abdomen was glued, too. Therefore, it was necessary for examination to macerate the complete specimen and store it in a glycerine microvial pinned underneath the label. The specimen is in a poor condition with most setae of the body surface broken and the thorax is broken. Therefore, the description of head and thorax is incomplete. Description of holotype (male). Length about 1.6 mm. Wing length 1.2 mm. Head height 0.3 mm. Head black. Antenna black to dark brown. Arista without pubescence. Maximum eye length: maximum eye height = 1. Posteroventral margin of gena closest to eye margin: maximum eye height = 0.5. Frons microtomentose, frontal triangle shining to subshining. Frontal triangle distinct, reaching about 1/2 distance from anterior ocellus to frontal margin. Carina narrow. Postcranium microtomentose. Prementum about as long and slightly wider than labellum. Palpus brown, about 1/2 as long as the haustellum. Scutum with 1 long posterior dorsocentral seta, other setae or scars of setae could not be detected. Costa with no obvious setae beyond radial vein R 1. Wing hyaline, veins light yellow to yellow brown. R 4+5 slightly curved to apex of wing. Knob of haltere whitish yellow, base of haltere brown. Legs black to brown. Fore femur apically with 2 strong posteroventral setae, other setae could not be recognized. Hind femur apically with 1 strong anteroventral seta. Length metatarsus 2: length tibia 2 = 0.5. Tergites with no obvious depressions or tufts of setulae. Abdominal pleura with scattered setae on abdominal segments 4���5. Abdominal segments 1���5 moderately narrow, width of tergite 3: length of tergite 3 = 2.0. Tergites 2���4 each with 1 distinct lateral seta at the posterior margin, tergite 5 with an obvious long lateral seta and 3 long submedial setae at the posterior margin. Sternite 5 almost rectangular (Fig. 10). Sternite 5 with scattered setae. Midventral tergite 7 distinct. Protandrium long, about as long as epandrium and about 0.8 of length of tergite 5. Epandrium apically with long setae and with several smaller setae (Fig. 7). Maximum length dorsally in the middle of epandrium: maximum width of epandrium = 0.8. Cerci distinct, distinctly projecting, and with a few setulae only. Subepandrial sclerites sclerotised and distinctly separated by the hardly sclerotised hypoproct. No setula recognized on subepandrial plate. No proceeding of hypoproct. No tooth on subepandrial plate. Surstylus as Figs. 7, 8: bifurcated, with a smaller, slightly stronger sclerotized, short, pointed dorsal part and a larger, anteriorly rounded ventral part. Dorsal part of surstylus dorsally with several obviously long setae and apically with inconspicuous short setulae. No additional lamella recognized. Postgonite as in Fig. 9: distinctly sclerotised, with a broad base, slightly elongated, pointed, apically not bent like a hook. Distiphallus slightly longer than epandrium and surstylus, covered with dense black setulae that form a dark surface over almost the complete distiphallus. Basiphallus obviously sclerotised, long, narrow, at its base not widened. Diagnosis. Meoneura baechlii has a distinctive postabdomen with a bifurcate surstylus (Figs. 7, 8). The ventral part of surstylus is larger than the dorsal part. Only the dorsal part has long setae that are about twice as long as surstylus. The ventral part has only a few less conspicuous setae. Several long setae arise apically on the epandrium and are about as long as length of epandrium (Fig. 7). The only species that is similar to M. baechlii due to the shape of the surstylus is M. nevadensis Lyneborg, 1969. Concerning the original description M. nevadensis has only 2 small setae at the dorsal part of the surstylus and no setae at the ventral part (Lyneborg 1969: 43, Fig. 21). M. nevadensis has some long setae apical at the epandrium, too, but these are only about as long as height of epandrium. Etymology. This species is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Gerhard Baechli (Z��rich). No dipterist collected more Carnidae and Gerhard Baechli��s contribution to the knowledge of this hardly known family cannot be overstated. Distribution. Meoneura baechlii is hitherto only known from the locus typicus Monte Terminillo of the Abruzzi Apennine (Italy) at a height of 2000 meter. Meoneura exigua COLLIN , 1930 Material: CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♂, 10.���17.vii.2012, Praha, Troja [50��07���15������N 14��23���53������E], 184 m, emergence trap baited with pig carcas, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 2♂♂, 22.���29.v.2012, dito; 1♂, 5.���12.vi.2012, dito; 1♂, 6.���14.v.2015, dito; 1♂, 11.���19. viii.2015, dito; 1♂, 1.���7.viii.2012, dito; 4♂♂, 3.���10.vii.2012, dito; 3♂♂, 7.���14.v.2012, dito; ITALY: 1♂, 3.viii.1988, Amatrice, 5 km s, pine wood near pasture [42.39��N 13.20��E], 1700 m, protein trap, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; TURKEY: 2♂♂, 23.v.2011, 12 km sw of Muğla [37��7���40������N 28��16���28������E], 660 m, on Ferula communis, leg. M. Bart��k & ��. Kubik, coll. CULSP; 3♂♂, xi.2012 ��� iii.2013, Muğla, pine wood [37��09���41������N 28��22���21������E], 700 m, protein trap, leg. M. Bart��k & ��. Kubik, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, v.���vi.2013, Muğla, pine wood [37��09���41������N 28��22���21������E], 700 m, protein trap, leg. O. Dursun, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Collin (1930). M. exigua has not been recorded before from Italy and Turkey. Meoneura flavifacies COLLIN , 1930 Material: BULGARIA: 2♂♂, 15.vii.1987, Georgi Trajkov, edge of oak wood [43.00��N 27.48��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 27.vi.2016, Pirin, Vikhren hut, alpine meadow [41��45���22������N 23��24���55������E], 2000 m, leg. M. Bart��k & ��. Kubik, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 21.vii.1987, Sliven, 13 km N, damp valley [42.49��N 26.16��E], 700 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. PJHS; 1♂, 23.vii.1987, Voinesa, pasture near river [45.28��N 23.52��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♂, 3.v.���1. vi.2010, Břez��, alfalfa ecol. agric. [49��48���43.4������ 16��33������13.4������E], 190 m, leg. J. Rotrekl, coll. CULSP; 4♂♂, 23.���26.v.2001, Krkono��e, Labsk�� louka [50��46���11������N 15��32���32������E], 1350 m, leg. Vaněk, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 3.���4.vii.2005, Krkono��e, Lučn�� hora (maringotka) [50��43���14.4������N 15��41���00.9������E], 1450 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 2.viii.2007, Krkono��e, Obř�� důl nr. brook [50��43���36������N 15��43���40������E], 950 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 24.v.���10.vi.2010, Lhotka, Lolium westerwold [49��52���41.2������N 17��43���49.3������], 451m, emergence trap, leg. J. Frydrych, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 20.ix.���10. x.2007, Lideč, ecol. agric., Festuca pratensis [49��29���00������N 17��50���18������E], 459 m, emergence trap, leg. J. Frydrych, coll. CULSP; 5♂♂, 16.���20.vi.2008, Vr��ž nr. P��sek, damp meadow [49��24���12������N 14��7���13������E], 430 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 20.���26.vi.2008, Vr��ž nr. P��sek, meadow and wood [49��24���01������N 14��07���02������E], 400 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 1.viii.���7.ix.2007, Zubř��-Kučoviska [49��28���09������N 18��04���48������E], 363 m, emergence trap, yellow oatgrass, leg. J. Frydrych, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 25.vi.���28.vii.2009, Zubř��, Festuca rubra [49��28���00������N 18��04���42������E], 358 m, emergence trap, leg. J. Frydrych, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 26.v.���25.vi.2009, dito; 1♂, 28.iv.���27.v.2010, dito; 1♂, 28.vii.���17.viii..2009, Zubř��, grass plot [49��27���47.0������N 18��04���53.5������E], 351 m, emergence trap, leg. J. Frydrych, coll. CULSP; ITALY: 1♂, 3.viii.1988, Amatrice, 5km S, pine wood near pasture [42.39��N 13.20��E], 1700 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 5.vii.2011, Passo Nigra, meadow and wood [46��26���39������N 11��35���18������E], 1700 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 2♂♂, 4.vii.2011, Weisslahnbad, edge of forest [46��28���40������N 11��34���11������E], 1400 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; RUSSIA: 1♂, 23.v.1987, Moscow, Orechovo [55.48��N 37.45��E], sweeping, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; SLOVAKIA: 1♂, 23.viii.2002, Nizk�� Tatry Mountains [7083], alpine zone between Dere��e Mountain and Ďumbier Mt., 1700���2000 m, leg. J. Farkač, K. Farkačov��, V. Zedek, coll. CULSP; 2♂♂, 28.viii.2002, dito; UKRAINE: 1♂, 31.v.1990, Chersonskaja, leg. Zrazhevsky, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Stuke & B��chli (2015). These are the first records of M. flavifacies for Bulgaria and Ukraine. Meoneura flavifrons PAPP , 1981 Material: ANDORRA: 2♂♂, 8.vii.1990, Pto. de Envalira, along brook [42.34��N 1.41��E], 1600 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 8.vii.1990, Pto. de Envalira, subalpine meadow [42.32��N 1.43��E], 2200 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; AUSTRIA: 1♂, 11.viii.1988, Hainfeld environment, meadow and mixed forest [48.03��N 15.45��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 31.vii.1988, Heiligenblut [47.00��N 12.46��E], 1700 m, on Compositae, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 2♂♂, 6.viii.1995, Niedere Tauern, S��lker Pass [47.16��N 14.04��E], 1900 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; BULGARIA: 3♂♂, 10.viii.2005, Pirin, Begovica, 17.1 km nw from Sandanski [41��40���09������N 23��25���33������E], 1760 m, leg. J. Fechtner, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 27.vi.2016, Pirin, Vikhren hut, alpine meadow [41��45���22������N 23��24���55������E], 2000 m, leg. M. Bart��k & ��. Kub��k, coll. PJHS; FRANCE: 7♂♂, 12.vii.1990, Montgenevre, spruce wood [44.56��N 6.43��E], 1800 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 9.vii.1990, Pic Long, alpine meadow [42.49��N 0.09��E], 2200 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; ITALY: 1♂, 8.viii.1990, Passo Sella, forest boundary [46.26��N 11.46��E], 1900 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Stuke & B��chli (2015). M. flavifrons has not been recorded from Andorra, Bulgaria, and France before. Meoneura freta COLLIN , 1937 Material: BULGARIA: 2♂♂, 17.vii.1987, Kiten, oak wood and pig farm [42.14��N 27.48��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS; CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♂, 15.���22.v.2012, Praha, Troja [50��07���15������N 14��23���53������E], 184 m, emergence trap baited with pig carcas, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 30.vi.���7.vii.2015, Praha, Troja [50��07���15������N 14��23���53������E], 184 m, emergence trap baited with pig carcas, exposed 9.xii.2014, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. PJHS; 1♂, 3.���11.viii.2015, dito; 1♂, 1.���7.viii.2012, Praha, Troja [50��07���15������N 14��23���53������E], 184 m, emergence trap baited with pig carcas, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 22.���29.v.2012, dito; 1♂, 19.v.���17.vi.2009, Žabčice, alfalfa [49��1���26������N 16��36���51.5������E], 179 m, leg. J. Rotrekl, coll. CULSP; TURKEY: 1♂, 30.vi.2015, 4 km n of Yatagan [37��22���12���N 28��09���22������E], 400 m, on flowers, leg. M. Bart��k & ��. Kubik, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Collin (1937). This is a first record for Bulgaria of M. freta. Meoneura glaberrima BECKER , 1907 Material: ANDORRA: 1♂, 8.vii.1990, Pto. de Envalira, along brook [42.34��N 1.41��E], 1600 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; BULGARIA: 5♂♂, 15.vii.1987, Georgi Trajkov, edge of oak wood [43.00��N 27.48��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS, PJHS; 1♂, 16.vii.1987, Irakli, damp meadow [42.47��N 27.54��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 20.vi.2016, Rhodopes, 25 km ssw of Plovdiv, meadow [41��56���05���N 24��40���45������E], 1590 m, leg. M. Bart��k & ��. Kubik, coll. CULSP; 1 ♂, 21.vii.1987, Sliven, 15 km N, pasture [42.50��N 26.15��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; ITALY: 9♂♂, 3.viii.1988, Amatrice, 5 km S, pine wood near pasture [42.39��N 13.20��E], 1700 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 12.vii.1990, Cesana Torinese, mixed wood [44.57��N 6.47��E], 1000 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; SPAIN: 1♂, 6.vii.1990, Figueres, vegetation [41.21��N 01.56��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 3♂♂, 15.viii.2006, Sierra Nevada, Trevelez near river [37��00���09������N 03��15���43������E], 1440 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS; TURKEY: 1♂, 17.���22.v.2011, Muğla, University campus, 700 m [37��09���42������N 28��22���21������E], 700 m, pan trap +sweeping, leg. M. Bart��k & ��. Kubik, coll. CULSP; UZBEKISTAN: 11♂♂, 18.v.1989, Chimgan, alpine meadow [41.38��N 70.06��E], 1800 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 1♂, 18.v.1989, Chimgan, damp meadow [41.37��N 70.00��E], 800 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 20.v.1989, Chinaz along Syrdarya river [40.53��N 68.43��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 3♂♂, 18.v.1989, Karamazar, alpine meadow [41.30��N 69.49��E], 800 m, leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 22.v.1989, Samarkand, 2 km E, pasture [39.39��N 67.01��E], leg. M. Bart��k, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Collin (1930). These are the first records of M. glaberrima for Andorra, Italy and Uzbekistan., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann & Bart��k, Miroslav, 2019, Records of Carnidae from the collection of Miroslav Bart��k (Diptera: Carnidae), with the description of five new species, pp. 326-346 in Zootaxa 4567 (2) on pages 331-335, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/2594992, {"references":["Lyneborg, L. 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Meoneura artoodetoo spec. nov. (Figs. 2–6) Holotype ♂: (1) „ SU: Chimgan / alpine meadow / 41.38N / 70.06E 1800 m / Barták, 18.v.1989 “; (2) „ Holotypus / Meoneura / artoodetoo / spec. nov. ♂ / det. Stuke 2018“. The holotype is deposited in the collection of the Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic, Prague (CULSP). The specimen is glued on a card point. The right wing is missing and the left wing is incomplete. Otherwise the specimen is in good condition. The posterior part of abdomen is dissected, macerated and stored in a glycerine microvial pinned underneath the specimen. Description of holotype (male). Length about 1.8 mm. Wing length about 1.6 mm. Head height 0.4 mm. Head black with anterior half of frons black brown. Antenna black to dark brown. Arista without pubescence. Maximum eye length: maximum eye height = 1.0. Posteroventral margin of gena closest to eye margin: maximum eye height = 0.5. Frons microtomentose, frontal triangle shining. Frontal triangle indistinct and short, hardly reaching further than anterior ocellus. Face microtomentose. Carina narrow. Postcranium microtomentose. Prementum longer and wider than labellum. Palpus brown, about 1/4 as long as the haustellum. 1 distinct ocellar seta; supralunular setae only slightly convergent; 4 fronto-orbital setae (2 anterior mesoclinate, 2 posterior lateroclinate); 2 vertical setae; 2 mesoclinate postorbital setae; postocellar setae parallel; 1 strong vibrissal seta; 2 supravibrissal setae, the ventral one much smaller; 4 genal setae, the anterior one strongest. Scutum shining to subshining, anterior 2/3 covered with black setulae. Scutellum microtomentose. Pleurae shining to slightly microtomentose. Scutum with only 1 long posterior and 2 smaller anterior dorsocentral setae. 2 postpronotal setae; 1 praesutural seta; 2 notopleural setae; 1 supraalar seta; 2 postalar setae; 1 praescutellar seta; 1 apical and 1 lateral scutellar seta. 1 seta at posterior margin of anepisternum. 1 dorsal seta and 1 ventral seta on katepisternum. Costa with no obvious setae beyond radial vein R 1. Wing hyaline, veins white to light yellow. Knob of haltere whitish yellow, base of haltere brown. Legs black to brown. Fore femur apically with 2 and basally with 1 strong posteroventral setae. Hind femur apically with 1 strong anteroventral seta. All coxae with single black setae. Hind metatarsus ventrally with dense yellow golden setae. Length metatarsus 2: length tibia 2 = 0.6. Tergites with no obvious depressions or tufts of setulae. Abdominal pleura with scattered setae on abdominal segment 5 only. Abdominal segments 1–5 narrow, width of tergite 3: length of tergite 3 = 2.6. Tergites 2–5 each with 1 distinct lateral seta at the posterior margin, and with 4 indistinct setae at the posterior margin. Sternite 5 almost rectangular, slightly longer than broad, with 2 anterior setae and few additional setulae (Fig. 5). Midventral tergite 7 not recognized. Protandrium very small, shorter than epandrium and about 0.3 of length of tergite 5. Epandrium with two strong lateral setae and several smaller setae (Fig. 2, 6). Maximum length dorsally in the middle of epandrium: maximum width of epandrium = 0.4. Cerci indistinct, not projecting, and with a few setulae only. Subepandrial plate distinctly sclerotised with a pair of strongly sclerotized dark brown bars. Subepandrial plate with scattered, hardly visible fine setulae. Obvious proceeding of hypoproct with 10–11 large and obvious flat setae on the projecting part. No tooth on subepandrial plate. Surstylus as in Fig. 3: with an obviously broadened base due to a ventral expansion, concave dorsally, and a slightly rounded tip. Surstylus with several inconspicuous setae apically and 1 inconspicuous but longer medially directed setae at the tip. The ventral expansion at base of surstylus is lamella-like and has several distinct setae. Postgonite as in Fig. 4: distinctly sclerotised, with a broad base, slightly elongated, pointed, apically bent like a hook. Distiphallus slightly longer than epandrium and surstylus, covered with setulae that form dorsobasally a field of dense setulae (Fig. 6). Basiphallus not recognized. Diagnosis. Meoneura artoodetoo belongs to the Meoneura obscurella -group that is characterised by a distinct process of hypoproct that has long distinct setae (Fig. 2). From all species of this group—with the exception of M. merzi Ozerov & Krivosheina, 2013 — M. artoodetoo is easily distinguished by the shape and setation of the surstylus as shown in Fig. 3. Especially the characteristic base of surstylus largely expanded ventrally to a lamellalike structure that bears several setulae (Fig. 3: ves) distinguishes this species easily. Meoneura artoodetoo will run in the key of the Meoneura obscurella -group of Stuke & Freidberg (2017) to couplet 4 where Meoneura paraseducta Papp, 1976 is identified. However M. artoodetoo has a completely black brown frons and no long seta on sternite 5 nor fits the shape of the surstylus. Later M. artoodetoo will run to couplet 9 where a decision to one of the keys alternatives is not possible anymore. M. merzi has been overlooked by Stuke & Freidberg (2017) and is very similar to M. artoodetoo. Compared with the original description of M. merzi, M. artoodetoo is distinguished by these characters: (i) postocellar setae parallel ("slightly diverging" in M. merzi); (ii) process of hypoproct with 10–11 obvious flattened setae distally (more setae that are not obvious flattened and that are not restricted to distal part of process of hypoproct in M. merzi), (iii) base of surstylus dorsally expanded and therefore dorsal margin of surstylus concave (base of surstylus less broad and therefore dorsal margin of surstylus almost straight in M. merzi); (iv) dull angle between surstylus and ventral expansion of surstylus (right angle between surstylus and ventral expansion of surstylus in M. merzi); (v) ventral expansion almost square (ventral expansion oblong in M. merzi); (vi) epandrium with two strong lateral setae (epandrium without strong setae in M. merzi). Etymology. This species is dedicated—as noun in apposition—to the fictional robot R2-D2 from George Lucas Star Wars movies. R2-D2 is a small and inconspicuous robot but saved the world. Distribution. Meoneura artoodetoo is hitherto only known from the locus typicus Chimgan (Uzbekistan). Meoneura atoma PAPP (1981) Material: Material: AUSTRIA: 2♂♂, 31.vii.1988, Heiligenblut [47.00°N 12.46°E], 1700 m, on Compositae, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; 2♂♂, 6.viii.1995, Niedere Tauern, Sölker Pass [47.16°N 14.04°E], 1900 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP, PJHS; CZECH REPUBLIC: 2♂♂, 10.vi.–16.vii.2015, Českolipsko, Provodín, pískovna pod hřbitovem, Malaise trap, leg. L. Blažej, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 3.–4.vii.2005, Krkonoše, Luční hora (maringotka) [50°43’14.4’’N 15°41’00.9’’E], 1450 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; ITALY: 1♂, 8.viii.1988, Passo Rolle, alpine meadow [46.13°N 11.42°E], 1900 m, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP; 1♂, 6.viii.1988, Staggia, oak wood, leg. M. Barták, coll. CULSP. Diagnosis: Papp (1981).

The Carnidae of the genera Meoneura and Carnus from the collection of the Tel Aviv University have been investigated. Ten new species are described from Israel: Meoneura bilboi n. sp., M. brakeae n. sp., M. davidi n. sp., M. goldemari n. sp., M. grimmorum n. sp., M. lilliputensis n. sp., M. meszarosi n. sp., M. nilsholgerssoni n. sp. (also from Egypt), M. oskari n. sp., and M. wichtelorum n. sp. Ten species—M. acuticerca, M. furcata, M. glaberrima, M. hungarica, M. lacteipennis, M. maritima, M. moravica, M. neottiophila, M. prima, and M. triangularis—are recorded in the country for the first time. Three new synonyms are introduced: Meoneura palaestinensis Hennig, 1937 = Meoneura nitidiuscula Collin, 1949 (n. syn.), Meoneura moravica Gregor & Papp, 1981 = Meoneura pamphylica Ozerov, 2008 (n. syn.) and Meoneura prima (Becker, 1903) = Meo­neura baluchistani Duda, 1936 (n. syn.). A total of 22 species of Meoneura and one species of Carnus are now known from Israel. Four identification keys are presented for species of Meoneura species groups., Los Carnidae de los géneros Meoneura y Carnus de la colección de la Universidad de Tel Aviv han sido investigados. Diez nuevas especies se describen desde Israel: Meoneura bilboi n. sp., M. brakeae n. sp., M. davidi n. sp., M. goldemari n. sp., M. grimmorum n. sp., M. lilliputensis n. sp., M. meszarosi n. sp., M. nilsholgerssoni n. sp. (también desde Egipto), M. oskari n. sp. y M. wichtelorum n. sp. Diez especies se registran en el país por primera vez: M. acuticerca, M. furcata, M. glaberrima, M. hungarica, M. lacteipennis, M. maritima, M. moravica, M. neottiophila, M. prima y M. triangulari. Se proponen tres nuevos sinónimos: Meoneura palaestinensis Hennig, 1937 = Meoneura nitidiuscula Collin, 1949 (n. syn.), Meoneura moravica Gregor & Papp, 1981 = Meoneura pamphylica Ozerov, 2008 (n. syn.) y Meoneura prima (Becker, 1903) = Meoneura baluchistani Duda, 1936 (n. syn.). Un total de 22 especies de Meoneura y una especie de Carnus ahora se conocen en Israel. Se presentan cuatro claves de identificación para especies de grupos de especies de Meoneura.

Thecophora bartaki spec. nov. is described from Laos and Thecophora caenovalva (Kröber) is reported from Japan. Nomenclatural Acts Thecophora bartaki spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D0069884-865A-46CC-92EE-DE874AA6EDD6, Contributions to Entomology = Beiträge zur Entomologie, Bd. 67 Nr. 2 (2017)

C. quadrifasciatus De Geer, 1776 Conops 4- fasciata De Geer, 1776: 261 ���262; type-locality: information not provided in the original description [presumably Sweden]; no information available about type material [NHRS] Diagnosis. see Chv��la (1961). = C. luteitarsis Wengenmayr, 1931 syn. nov. Conops quadrifasciatus Deg. nov. var. luteitarsis Wengenmayr, 1931: 51; type-locality: ��� Kaufbeuren ��� [Germany]; no information concerning the type material [depository unknown] This taxon is very poorly described, with only the information "Alle Tarsenglieder gelb" [All tarsi yellow] being given. Based on this poor description the most pragmatic solution is to place C. luteitarsis as a synonym of C. quadrifasciatus., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Taxonomic notes on Western Palaearctic Conopidae (Diptera), pp. 521-534 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on page 524, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/163589, {"references":["De Geer, C. (1776) Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des Insectes. Tome sixieme. Hesselberg, P., Stockholm, viii + 522 pp.","Chvala, M. (1961) Czechoslovak species of the subfamily Conopinae (Diptera: Conopidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica, 61, 103 - 145.","Wengenmayr, X. (1931) Dipteren aus Bayern, besonders Schwaben (einschliesslich des Donautales). Bericht des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins fur Schwaben und Neuburg, 49, 18 - 80."]}

P. rufipes (Fabricius, 1781) Conops rufipes Fabricius 1781: 466; type-locality: ��� Germania ���; no information available about type material [ZMUC] Diagnosis. see Chv��la (1961) and Stuke (2006). = P. laticincta (Brull��, 1832) syn. nov. Conops laticinctus Brull��, 1832: 680; type-locality: ���Carit��ne��� [Greece]; holotypus ♂ [MNHN] The only character used to separate Physocephala laticincta from Physocephala rufipes is the black base of the femora in the former species. Numerous intermediates have been examined by the author of the present paper, however, and there are no other characters to date that allow one to distinguish the two reliably. As a consequence, I interpret the leg colouration as infraspecific variability and therefore place P. laticincta as a junior synonym of P. rufipes (syn. nov.)., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Taxonomic notes on Western Palaearctic Conopidae (Diptera), pp. 521-534 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on page 529, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/163589, {"references":["Fabricius, J. C. (1781) Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma, avctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Tome 1 + 2. Bohnii, C. E., Hamburg & Kiel, 494 pp.","Chvala, M. (1961) Czechoslovak species of the subfamily Conopinae (Diptera: Conopidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica, 61, 103 - 145.","Stuke, J. - H. (2006) Bestimmung und Taxonomie der palaarktischen Conopidae (Diptera). 1. Teil: Die Physocephala rufipes - Artengruppe. Studia Dipterologica, 12, 369 - 384.","Brulle, G. A. (1832) IVe classe. Insectes. In: Bory de Saint Vincent, M. (Eds.), Expedition scientifique de Moree: Section des Sciences Physiques. Tome III. 1 e. partie. Zoologie Sect. 2. Levrault, F. G., Straßburg, Paris, pp. 64 - 395."]}

M. fasciata Meigen, 1804 Myopa fasciata Meigen, 1804: 286; type-locality: incomplete information concerning type locality [���Sie ist nicht selten��� and ���Eine Ab��nderung aus Frankreich ���]; syntypus ♂ and ♀ of unknown number [MNHN] Diagnosis. see Chv��la (1965). = M. benkoi (Szilady, 1925) syn. nov. Sicus Benkői Szil��dy, 1925: 227; type-locality: ��� V��r��storonyn��l ��� [Romania]; Holotype ♀ [depository unknown] This taxon was overlooked until Zimina (1975) mentioned it in her revision of Sicus, wherein she assumed it to be a synonym of Sicus abdominalis Kr��ber, 1915. This assumed synonymy was afterwards listed in the catalogue of Zimina (1976). Zimina (1976) gives an incorrect citation for the species, however, and therefore it remained unclear where the species was originally described. As a consequence, Chv��la & Smith (1988) listed Sicus benkoi Zimina, 1976 as a nomen nudum, and placed it as a synonym of S. abdominalis. There are two works of Szilady which deal with Conopidae: Szilady (1925) and Szilady (1926). Szilady (1925) announced his intention to publish a paper concerning all Diptera (his complete thesis), stating: "The new species and varieties mentioned here are described in my dissertation: On some American and Old World flies. Biologica Hungarica Budapest. Mus. Hung. Vol. 1. 1925. fasc. 7.". This announcement lead Zimina (1976) to the wrong citation because in fact only Tabanidae were published in fasc. 7 of the Biologica Hungarica. Sicus benkoi was described in Szilady (1925) and therefore the name is valid. Szilady (1926) did not include the name S. benkoi, however, but instead refers to Sicus femoralis Rondani, 1865, a species that was not mentioned in Szilady (1925). The cited specimen details of S. femoralis are identical to those of S. benkoi (location, collector) and therefore it is probable that Szilady himself came to the conclusion that his S. benkoi was a synonym of S. femoralis. The description of S. femoralis given in Szilady (1926) and of S. benkoi in Szilady (1925) exclude S. abdominalis but fit completely with Myopa fasciata Meigen, 1804. Rivosecchi & Mei (1998) have previously stated that S. femoralis is a junior synonym of M. fasciata, and therefore S. benkoi Szilady, 1925 should also be treated as a valid species in synonymy with M. fasciata Meigen, 1804. The depository of the holotype of S. benkoi is unknown, and it is probably destroyed., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Taxonomic notes on Western Palaearctic Conopidae (Diptera), pp. 521-534 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on page 525, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/163589, {"references":["Meigen, J. W. (1804) Klassifikazion und Beschreibung der europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. (Diptera Linn.). Reichard, K., Braunschweig, 314 pp.","Chvala, M. (1965) Czechoslovak species of the subfamilies Myopinae and Dalmanniinae (Diptera, Conopidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica, 65, 93 - 149.","Szilady, Z. (1925) A synopsis of the flies of Hungary III. Conopidae. Mathematikai es Termeszettudomanyi Ertesito, 41, 215 - 229.","Zimina, L. V. (1975) Conopidae (Diptera) of the fauna of the USSR. Genus Sicus Sop., 1763. Entomologiceskoe Obozrenie, 54, 180 - 185. [in Russian]","Zimina, L. V. (1976) Catalogue of Conopidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic. Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya, Moskovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, 15, 149 - 182. [in Russian]","Chvala, M. & Smith, K. G. V. (1988) Conopidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 8. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford, New York & Tokyo, pp. 245 - 272.","Szilady, Z. (1926) Dipterenstudien, 1. Zur Kenntnis der Conopiden. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. Pars Zoologica, 24, 586 - 611.","Rondani, A. C. (1865) Diptera italica non vel minus cognita descripta vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Fasc. I: Oestridae-Syrphidae-Conopidae. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano, 8, 127 - 146.","Rivosecchi, L. & Mei, M. (1998) Note sinonimiche su alcuni Conopidi descritti da Camillo Rondani (Diptera, Conopidae). Fragmenta Entomologica, 30, 271 - 277."]}

M. occulta Wiedemann, 1824 Myopa occulta Wiedemann in Meigen 1824: 145; type-locality: ���Gelten��� [Germany]; syntypus 2♀ [MNHN] Diagnosis. see Chv��la (1961). = M. nigrifrons Bonsdorff, 1866 Myopa nigrifrons Bonsdorff, 1866: 17; type-locality: ���S����ksm��ki (♂)���, ��� Tammerfors (♀) af Woldstedt ��� [Finland]; Syntypes 1♂ 1♀ [MZHF] The male and a female syntypes of M. nigrifrons are both deposited in the collection of MZHF, where they were kindly examined for this study by J. Kahanp����. Both specimens fit to Myopa occulta Wiedemann (Kahanp���� in litt), as does their original description. Therefore, M. nigrifrons is herewith confirmed treated as a junior synonym of M. occulta. This synonymy was published without additional comments in Kahanp���� & Stuke (2014)., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Taxonomic notes on Western Palaearctic Conopidae (Diptera), pp. 521-534 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on page 525, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/163589, {"references":["Meigen, J. W. (1824) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vierter Theil. Schultz- Wundermann, Hamm, 428 pp.","Chvala, M. (1961) Czechoslovak species of the subfamily Conopinae (Diptera: Conopidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica, 61, 103 - 145.","Bonsdorff, E. J. (1866) Finlands tvavingade insekter (Diptera) fortecknade, och i korthet beskrifne. Vol. II. Finska Litt. - Sallsk., Helsinki, vi + 306 pp.","Kahanpaa, J. & Stuke, J. - H. (2014) Checklist of the superfamilies Conopoidea, Diopsoidea and Nerioidea of Finland (Insecta, Diptera). Zookeys, 441, 251 - 257. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 441.7227"]}

D. apiarium Bosc d���Antic, 1812 Dipodium apiarium Bosc d���Antic, 1812: 72 ���73 + 1 plate; locus typicus not given; syntypes of unknown number of larvae [depository unknown] Bosc d���Antic (1812) described a species of ���intestinal worm��� found within the abdomen of a bee (���abeille���) from a beehive (���rucher���), not realising that he had the larva of a dipteran before him. His description of the morphology and biology of D. apiarum fits completely to the larva of a conopid, the host of which must have been the honeybee Apis mellifera L. Because Dipodium was stated to lack anterior spiracles, the genus Sicus can probably be excluded, but there are several other conopid species which have been reported to develop in Apis ���in central Europe, for example, conopid parasitoids of Apis are reported to include Merziella, Physocephala, Thecophora and Zodion. Therefore, it is not possible to come to any conclusion concerning the true identity of D. apiarium. The depository of the syntypes (which were larvae) is unknown, but even if these could be found it is unlikely that they could be identified reliably to genus level given the present state of our knowledge. Therefore, unfortunately, D. apiarium has to be treated as an unrecognised species of Conopidae for the time being, and Dipodium Bosc d���Antic, 1812 as an unrecognised genus of Conopidae., Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Taxonomic notes on Western Palaearctic Conopidae (Diptera), pp. 521-534 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on page 524, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/163589, {"references":["Bosc d'Antic, L. A. G. (1812) Description du Dipodion, genre nouveau de Vers intestinaux. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique, 3, 72 - 73 + 1 plate."]}

Key to colour morphs of Physocephala vittata (Fabricius, 1794) 1 Pleura with distinct areas of dense dusting................................................................ 2 - Pleura without distinct areas of dense dusting.............................................................. 4 2 Dusting on pleura restricted to a spot dorsally on the katepisternum, anepisternum without dense dusting................................................................................ vittata, colour morph maculigera Kr��ber, 1915 - Dusting on the pleura forming a band that reaches more or less up the anepisternum to close to the notopleuron........... 3 3 Darker specimens: male: with at least epandrium black, and usually the apical segments of abdomen mainly black coloured; female: tergite 3 with a black band............................................ colour morph truncata Loew, 1847 - Lighter specimens: male: epandrium orange-brown like the rest of the abdomen; female: tergite 3 with a pair of black markings......................................................... vittata, colour morph pseudomaculigera Kr��ber, 1915 4 Tergite 4 shining, without a distinctly dusted hind margin................... vittata, colour morph detecta Becker, 1913 - Tergite 4 with a distinct broad dusted hind margin........................................................... 5 5 Dark specimens with black postcoxal bridge and thorax more or less completely black with the exception of the postpronotum.................................................................. vittata, colour morph fraterna (Loew, 1847) - Lighter specimens with postcoxal bridge reddish orange and thorax paler with at most the mesoscutum black, and the pleura mostly reddish orange................................................................................. 6 6 Abdomen with distinct black markings; black colouration of mesoscutum not divided to three large black spots........................................................................................ vittata, typical colour morph - Abdomen more or less completely orange brown, at most with small pairs of black spots on tergites but not with black bands; black colouration of mesoscutum reduced and divided to three large black spots................................................................................................... vittata, colour morph abdominalis Kr��ber, 1915, Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Taxonomic notes on Western Palaearctic Conopidae (Diptera), pp. 521-534 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on pages 529-530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/163589, {"references":["Fabricius, J. C. (1794) Entomologica systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis observationibus, descriptionibus. Tome IV. C. G. Proft, fil et soc., Kopenhagen, [6] + 472 + [5] pp.","Loew, H. (1847) Dipterologische Beitrage. Dritter Theil. Ueber die italienischen Arten der Gattung Conops. Jahresbericht des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines zu Posen, 1846, 1 - 24."]}

Conops Linnaeus, 1758 Conops Linnaeus, 1758: 604 [name gender: masculine]; Type-species: Conops flavipes Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation (Curtis, 1831: 377), Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2016, Taxonomic notes on Western Palaearctic Conopidae (Diptera), pp. 521-534 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on page 522, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/163589, {"references":["Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, lociis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Stockholm, iv + 284 pp.","Curtis, J. (1831) British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. Volume 15. Published by Curtis, London, 277 plates."]}