New records of big-headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from the Mediterranean Basin

Despite great progress in Pipunculidae (Insecta: Diptera) systematics during the past decades, the Mediterrane-an fauna of big-headed flies remains largely unknown. Here, we present new faunistic and taxonomic data for 98 named species from Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, and Turkey, based on our own collecting efforts and museum specimens. Besides 56 first national records, the paper includes the description of Cephalops(Semicephalops) brachium Kehlmaier Withers sp. n. from France and Spain, and of TomosvaryellaositoKehlmaier, Gibbs Withers sp. n. and Tomosvaryella pugiunculus Kehlmaier Gibbs sp. n. from the Balear Islands (Spain). Furthermore, two new synonymies are proposed: Tomosvaryella lyneborgi (Coe, 1969) = Tomosvaryella cilitar-sis (Strobl, 1910); and Tomosvaryella glabrum (Adams, 1905) = Tomosvaryella pilosiventris (Becker, 1900). Lectotypes are designated for Tomosvaryella pilosiventris (Becker, 1900) and Tomosvaryella vicina (Becker, 1900). The following species need to be deleted from the Spanish checklist due to misidentifications: Cephalops subultimus Collin, 1956, Eu-dorylas montium (Becker, 1897), and Tomosvaryella nigronitida Collin, 1958.