S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 34/2. (Budapest, 1981)
FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK XLII (XXXIV) 2 1981 p. 85-93 New Scenopinidae (Diptera) from the Palearctic By L. P. KELSEY (Received July 24, 1981) Abstract. - Five new species of Scenopinus are described S. goblensls, S. kaszabl . and S. maculosus from Mongolia; S. afghanistanens is from Afghanistan and S. mariensis from Turkmenia. The new species Metatrichia mongolica firmly establishes the worldwide distribution of the genus Metatrichia . The specimens from Mongolia represent a major addition to the scenopinid fauna of the eastern Palearctic. It has been my pleasure to examine the Scenopinid material from the Hungarian Natural History Museum including a long series of specimens collected by Dr. Z. KASZAB in Mongolia while on a series of collecting expeditions between 1964 and 1968. This latter material has yielded 3 new Scenopinus species and a new species of Metatrichia. The latter firmly establishes the world-wide distribution of genus Metatrichia. In the additional material examined was a new species of Scenopinid from Afghanistan which is described below. Also included is the description of a new species of Scenopinid from Turkmenia that Dr. N. KRIVOSHEINA of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow has kindly given permission to describe. All drawings are made with the aid of the binocular microscope. The terminalia are dissected, cleared with KOH and drawn under water. The scale marks represent one half millimeter, the shorter applies to the wing and head, the longer to the terminalia. Genus METATRICHIA Coquillett Metatrichia mongolica sp.n. (Fig. 1) The discovery of this species from Mongolia firmly establishes the world-wide distribution of this genus and establishes it, along with the genus Scenopinus . as one of the two oldest genera of the Family Scenopinidae. Female - body length 3.0-4.3 mm, wing 3.0-3.7 mm. Head with ground color light orange to orange; eyes black-brown; postocular rim moderately broad, the two sides meeting in a groove on the midline posterior ti the ocellar tubercle, a Published with the approval of the Director of the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station as Miscellaneous Paper. Contribution No. 510 of the Department of Entomology and Applied Ecology, University of Delaware, Newark DE. — Ergebnisse der zoologischen Forschungen von Dr. Z. KASZAB in der Mongolei. Nr. 464.
