S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 45/2. (Budapest, 1984)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK XLV. 2 1984 p. 27-41 Catalog of the types of Drosophilidae in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (Diptera) By G. BÄCHLI (Received October 25, 1983) Abstract: 819 types of 151 species of Drosophilidae deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum are listed. 117 species were described by DUDA, the remaining species by 13 other authors. The specimens were collected mainly in Costa Rica,Taiwan, Uganda, and New Guinea. Introduction DUDA, one of the leading specialists of Drosophilidae in the first half of this century, published, between 1923 and 1940, several papers describing some 300 new species. To a large degree these descriptions were based on the specimens of the collection of the Hungarian National Museum. Additional species based on this collection were described by BACHLI, BECKER, KERTÉSZ, LACHAISE, LASTOVKA, MÁCA, MEIJERE, OKADA, L. PAPP, POKORNY, STURTEVANT, TSACAS and WHEELER. A small part of the type specimens was revised by different authors, e.g. DUDA'

s Costa Rican specimens by WHEELER (1963). The Diptera collection in the Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum now contains 819 type specimens of 151 species in 24 genera of Drosophilidae. Of these, 54 species are represented by holotypes, 37 by lectotypes, 52 by 226 lectotypes or paralectotypes, and 44 by 402 syntypes. The type specimens were mainly collected in Costa Rica, Uganda,Taiwan and New Guinea. In the following list, the species are alphabetically arranged. Their systematic position is based on the catalogue of WHEELER (1981). For each species the original reference and genus are given, followed by a citation of the essential details regarding number and origin of the type material. This citation is omitted for species described after .1960. The type specimens recorded are listed with details of the labels, as far as needed. Of the following species though expected to be represented in the collection no type material was found: Hypselothyrea brevtscutellata Duda, 1928, Drosophila kerteszina Duda, 1925, Drosophi la longifrons Duda, 1923, Drosophila medioobscurata Duda, 1925, and Drosophila plctipennls Kertész, 1901. Of certain other species the number of type specimens were lower than expected.These missing specimens have to be considered as lost. I wish to express my thanks to my colleagues at the Diptera collection of the Budapest Museum, especially to Dr.L.PAPP, for the permission to work in the collection and for the warm hospitality I received.