S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 64. (Budapest, 2003)

TABANIDAE Chrysops sepulchralis (Fabricius, 1794) - 3 maies: Zempléni TK, Nagyhuta, Kőkapu, virágokról, 2002. júl. 04./05, Szappanos A. - Though it had for long been expected to occur in the modern Hungary (Majer 1987), these are the first voucher specimens from our country. MYTHÍCOMYIIDAE Empidideicus hungaricus Thalhammer, 1911 - It was described from Vaskút, but the type specimens were annihilated in the HNHM in 1956. One female was collected in the nineties but we (A. Szappanos and L. Papp) captured (on small flowers, like Gypsophila) more than 1000 specimens in the last two years, of which 406 males and females were minuten pinned and preserved in the HNHM from Budapest, Pestszentlőrinc (Péterhalmi-erdő), Csévharaszt, Kecskemét (Borbás, Matkó), Nyárlőrinc, Hetényegyháza, Fülöpháza and Kerekegyháza. Glabellula arctica (Zetterstedt, 1838) - 1 male: Zempléni TK: Nagyhuta, Kőkapu, virágokról, 2002. júl. 5., Szappanos A. & Papp L. - The genus and the species are new for the Hungarian fauna. Platypygus bellus Loew, 1873 - 1 male: Kecskemét, Borbás, 2002.06.15, fátyolvirágról, leg. Szappanos. - The genus and the species are new for the Hungarian fauna. Actually I do not know any record of the genus Platypygus from the Caq?athian Basin. However, at least P. riclibundus (A. Costa, 1863), a widely distributed Mediterraneas species, is expected to occur. BOMBYLIIDAE Apolysis sp. n. - I male: 2001.05.21, Kerekegyháza, nagyerdő, hálózva [large forest, sweep netted], leg. Szappanos A. (genitalia are preserved in a plastic microvial with glycerol); 1 female: Fülöpháza, 2002.06.19, KNP [Kiskunság National Park], fátyolvirágról [on flowering Gypsophila], leg. Szappanos A. - They were studied in detail (it is really a new species with M-M cross-vein) but it is not described as new here. In Hungary Thalhammer (1900) recorded A. eremophila Loew from Kalocsa (also his handwritten collection catalogue contains this locality). Tóth (1977) in his Bombyliidae part of the Fauna Hungáriáé gave Deliblat (Yugoslavia, Vojvodina) as the only known locality in the Carpathian Basin. He gave the name in square brackets, which means that the species had not been recorded in Hungary but it was expected to occur. In the "Checklist of the Diptera of Hungary" (Tóth in Papp et al. 2001) gave its entry in a rather unfortunate way: "Thalhammer 1900: 29 (Kalocsa, QR, A56), Tóth 1911b: 12". It is true that Kalocsa was a published record, but that is a questionable record and the voucher specimen(s) was/were annihilated in the fire in the HNHM in 1956. The second part of the entry refers to its Fauna Hungáriáé work, but in the given way it means the first reliable record from Hungary. I am afraid that A. eremophila is indeed a Middle Asian species and all its European and North African records would need a revision/corroboration. In addition, one cannot definitely know anything on Thalhammer's record (even the generic relegation seems questionable). Consequently, we propose to delete A. eremophila Loew, 1973 from the Hungarian list.