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ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LVII 1996 pp. 65-76 A check-list of the family Phoridae (Diptera) of Hungary L. Ádám and L. Papp A check-list of the family Phoridae (Diptera) of Hungary — A total of 207 species of Phoridae recorded hitherto in Hungary is listed with the names of the other species whose known occurrence data make probable their finding also in Hungary. The genera Aenigmatias, Plectanocnema and Woodiphora are new for the Hungarian fauna. An application for a grant for studies on insect guilds on "very small-sized feeding sources" (more concretely droppings of forest animals, dead snails, dead mice, decaying fungi, oozing sap of deciduous woods, etc.) was accepted by the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund in 1995. Early in the preparation for these studies it became obvious that phorid species are important members of all these guilds and during the first sampling in 1995 we obtained an abundant and rather various phorid material on these sources. In order to be prepared for the handling and identification of the Phoridae, last year a key was constructed (based on Schmitz's keys and on Disney's (1983) key, supplemented by Dr Disney's MS key for the Manual of Palaearctic/European Diptera) in Hungarian. In 1995-1996 the dry material in the Diptera collection of the Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (HNHM) (some 11 000 individuals, double mounted on minute pins) has been assigned to genera by the authors in order to facilitate the identification of the phorids in insect samples collected in our mountain forests. We did not encounter special difficulties in sorting them to genera but — of course — we did when we tried to identify species, particularly so for the species of Megaselia. After all, numerous interesting specimens were found: Representatives of 19 genera were found in the "new" materials (collected after 1957); no specimens of Dohrniphora, Menozziola and Tubicera were identified (which were recorded in Schmitz's works (1922 to 1953)) but specimens of Aenigmatias, Plectanocnema and Woodiphora were found, which genera had not been reported formerly. It seems probable that some species new to science are also included. Logically the next step in our preparation was a bibliographic search for the faunistical data on the species of the family Phoridae from our country. This work yielded the present paper. From the summary of the faunistic data, a total of 207 species belonging to the family Phoridae has been reported to occur in Hungary. Some species are mentioned in Schmitz's (1928, 1940, 1941a, 19416) and Disney's (1991) works merely as from "HunSupported by the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund, OTKA No. 16892: "Pontszerű táplálékforrások rovarguildjei középhegységi erdeinkben".