Contributions to the Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera) Fauna of Muğla Provinces with the Six New Records for Turkey

Abstract

In this study, we report the Turkey fauna of long-legged flies and new records of six species (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) collected from Muğla province during the 2018-2019 field trips. These newly recorded species are Acropsilus niger (Loew, 1869), Hercostomus kravchenkoi (Grichanov and Freidberg, 2018), Sybistroma leptocerca (Stackelberg, 1949), Oncopygius magnificus (Loew, 1873), Medetera glaucella (Kowarz, 1877), and Syntormon submonilis (Negrobov, 1975). In total, 107 species from 10 subfamilies and 35 genera of Dolichopodidae are known from Muğla. With these records, the number of the Turkey Dolichopodidae species has reached 224.

A new species of Medetera Fischer von Waldheim, 1819 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with a key to the species known from Iran

“…Four species were reported without precise localities [Kazerani et al, 2016]. In comparison, the Turkish fauna numbers 18 species [Tonguç et al, 2016;Tonguç, Yüzer, 2023]. The fauna of the Caucasus and East Mediterranean region as a whole includes about 60 species of the genus [Grichanov, 2007b;Negrobov, Naglis, 2016].…”