New faunistic records of the genus Limonia Meigen (Limoniidae, Diptera, Insecta) from the Balkan region

Abstract

Europe to Anatolia, it is a poorly known species. Specimens have been collected mostly in semi-dry to dry habitats in warm deciduous forests and foreststeppes (Starý 2009) or dry pine forests (Starý and Oosterbroek 2008, Kolcsár et al. 2013). Ujvárosi et al. (2011) reported the species (a single specimen) from wetland (along marshy springs), but most probably the fly was a stray from nearby dryer habitats. We collected the species from dry sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) forest in Vevcani, and from pine (Pinus sp.) forest in Bratin Dol. This fly is on the Red List of threatened species in the Czech Republic (Starý and Barták 2005). The femora, wing and male genitalia are scarcely illustrated in literature and we present here the first photos of these features. (Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4A).

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“…The morphological characteristics of the male and female terminalia was examined after being macerated in 10% KOH. All collection data are available on the TransDiptera Online Database (Kolcsár et al 2018).…”

Description of a new species of Mediotipula from Albania, with consideration of the eastern Mediterranean as a diversity hotspot (Diptera, Tipulidae)

“…Altogether, 54 male and four female individuals of Mediotipula belonging to four species were examined (see Table 1 ). All collection data are available in the TransDiptera Online Database ( Kolcsár et al 2018 ). Male and female genitalia were examined after being cleared in 10% KOH.…”

New taxonomic and faunistic records of fungus gnats (Insecta, Diptera) from Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia

“…Only 2 articles have been specifically dealt with the Carpathian Sciaroidea (Pârvu 2002(Pârvu , 2004a, and they added no less than 67 species to the Romanian fauna. All faunistic data (Table 1) and the actual checklist of fungus gnats (Ditomyiidae, Diadocidiidae, Keroplatidae, Bolitophilidae, Mycetophilidae) of Romania (Table 2) and Montenegro and Serbia jointly (Table 3) are available on TransDiptera Online Database (Kolcsár et al 2017).…”