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FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 64 2003 pp. 297-307. Foundations for the faunistics of Mycomya Rondani of Hungary (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)* L. PAPP Abstract: Fifteen species of Mycomya Rondani are recorded as new for the Hungarian fauna. M. vaisaneni sp. n. is described. Some corrections to the Hungarian checklist are also given. With five original figures. Key words: Mycetophilidae, Mycomya, taxonomy, new species, new records, faunistic survey, Hungary INTRODUCTION In December 2001 the Hungarian Natural History Museum (below: HNHM) published the "Checklist of the Diptera of Hungary". Having had this book, the further faunistic survey of the dipterous fauna of Hungary arrived into a new phase. That book is not only serving as a reference for all the former publications; but any further study may reveal failures, misprints, etc. in the "Checklist...", so corrections are to be made, particularly in the next couple of forthcoming years. We do hope that the Mycetophilidae part of Papp & Sevcík (2001: 128-142) is not the worst part of the checklist. However, there was a genus, Mycomya Rondani, where our (actually my) work was not more than just a compilation. The reason is rather simple: we had not enough time in 2000 to revise the entire collection of the HNHM, or rather, to identify the newly collected material. We were to stress the weakness of that part by omission of the subgeneric ordering, which otherwise we thought well substantiated for this huge genus. Actually, I made also mistakes, which cannot be excused by the time-shortage. Sevcík & Papp (2001) did not work with Mycomya species either. Papp & Sevcík (2001) listed 13 species of Mycomya from Hungary. Of them, I consider eleven species still validly recorded in the Hungarian fauna. They are by * This paper was written for the project of "Large blank spots in the Diptera fauna of Hungary", supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA, No. T 30242).