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ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LXII 2001 pp. 247-255 Contribution to the tabánid (horse- and deer-flies) fauna of Hungary. I. Pangoniinae and Chrysopsinae (Diptera: Tabanidae) J. Majer Contribution to the tabánid (horse- and deer-flies) fauna of Hungary. I. Pangoniinae and Chrysopsinae (Diptera: Tabanidae) — The Hungarian Pangoniinae and Chrysopsinae were revised. 1 Pangonius, 8 Chrysops and 1 Silvius species have been hitherto known from Hungary. One species Pangonius pyritosus (Loew, 1859) in the Pangoniinae and one Chrysops melicharii Mik, 1898 in the Chrysopsinae subfamily have proved recently to be new for our fauna, two rare species Chrysops italicus Meigen, 1804 and Silvius alpinus (Scopoli, 1763) are included into the complete Hungarian Crysopsinae species list. The references of their collecting data are given and their distribution is represented on the EIS UTM System international standard netmap. Key words: Tabanidae, Chrysopsinae, Pangoniinae, Hungary. Tabánid studies were conducted at several locations in Hungary. Most of the female horse- and deer-flies are blood feeding with mammalian host preferences. They are agricultural and human pests. Tabanids are of medical and veterinary importance in several ways, i.e. bites may cause serious annoyance to human and livestock. They may serve as mechanical vectors and biological hosts of human and animal pathogens (Krinsky 1976). The breeding habits of most species are scmiaquatic or aquatic, which accounts for some of them being common near wet grazing areas, meadows and pastures. They have more or less strong association with wet habitats, which may serve as indicator of the quality of wetland areas. In the spreading of the foot and mouth disease (having broken out in Great Britain and in some Western European countries in the beginning of 2001) they may play important roll on the European continent. Knowledge of tabánid fauna of Hungary: so far 61 tabánid (horse- and deer-flies) species have been shown from Hungary. There are several places wherefrom tabanids were reported due to systematic surveying of the Hungarian fauna in landscape protection areas and national parks created recently. The first list of these flies contained 48 species for the Hungarian Kingdom published by Thalhammer (1900). These old data covered the whole of the Carpathian Basin and Croatia, too. Aradi (1956, 1958) prepared a faunistic revision of the horse- and deer-flies, which includes 6 genera and 43 species, none of them proved to be synonyms.