S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 51. (Budapest, 1990)
FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LI 1990 p. 107-112 Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) of Hungary By L. PAPP (Received March 16, 1990) ABSTRACT: A list with 143 species of the Hungarian Sphaeroceridae is given with remarks. Four species are reported as new to the Hungarian fauna . In 1973 the present author published also the sphaerocer'id part in the series "Fauna Hungáriáé" (Papp 1973). That work had but a few antecedents only. Thalhammer (1899) published 28 species, 12 species of them were from areas other than the present Hungary; in addition, the identity of a number of the names he published is not clear. Aradi (1965) published 30 sphaerocerid species from materials collected on human feces. Almost all his specimens are still extant in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (below: HNHM), so one can check them: he misidentified three species and at least a part of the specimens of other five species. After all, less than 40 sphaerocerid species were represented by identified specimens in the collection prior to the intensive collecting and identification work for the Fauna Hungáriáé. Though the identification booklet is still usable, it is far from being free of mistakes and misinterpretations. In the Fauna Hungáriáé booklet 106 sphaerocerid species were reported from Hungary and 24 species as to be expected to occur here. The true numbers should have been 104 spp. + 26 spp. (e.g. the name Aptilotus paradoxus was published without square brackets, i.e. as if it were a species of the Hungarian fauna) . Since 1973 it has turned out that "Limosina glabrescens Vill." and "Limosina spinosa Coll." were included based on misidentif ied specimens. The survey of the Hungarian sphaerocerid fauna has been intensive also after 1973. Four species from the Hortobágy N. P., 14 species from the Kiskunság N. P. and four species from the Bükk N. P. were reported as new to Hungary (Papp 1983a, 1987, 1990); 11 species incl . new species were published in other papers (see References). Rohááek (1990) has recently described several new species in the subgenus Rachispoda Lioy and found some others in the collection of the HNHM; he added altogether eight species to the Hungarian list. Four species are reported below as new to the Hungarian fauna. The list below is based mainly on the collection of the Zoological Department, HNHM, Budapest, where more than 23 000 mounted (pinned) specimens of the sphaerocerid species are preserved (there is some material also in alcohol). All those materials were selected out from several hundreds of thousands of sphaerocerid specimens which have hitherto been collected and identified from Hungary . Limosina corrivalis (Villeneuve, 1918) and Limosina hungarica (Villeneuve, 1917) were included in the Fauna Hungáriáé as valid species (át least formally, since they had been described from Hungary) . Actually both are dubious species: corrivalis is probably a species of Spelobia (? p seudonivalis ) or Pteremis (? fenestralis "forma nivalis " ) ; hungarica may be a senior (l) synonym of villosa (Duda, 1918) or conspecific with one of the other Spelobia species. The types
