O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 66. (Budapest, 2005)

Etymology - The new species was named after the late Dr. ALBERT SZAPPANOS, Sr., amateur coleopterist, and highly respected director of a primary school at Kecskemét. Apolysis sp. - A eremophila: THALHAMMER 1900, not A. eremophila LOEW, 1873. 1 male: K.N.P: Fülöpháza, 52. út 20. km mellett, virágokról, 2004. 06. 10., leg. SZAPPANOS A. In Hungary THALHAMMER (1900) recorded A. eremophila LOEW from Kalocsa (also his hand-written collection catalogue contains this locality). TÓTH (1977) in his Bombyliidae part of the Fauna Hungáriáé gave Deliblat (Serbia, 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 he (TÓTH 2001) gave its entry in a rather unfortunate way: "Thalhammer 1900: 29 (Kalocsa, QR, A56), Tóth 1977b: 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 (cf. abbreviations in the Checklist). The second part of the entry refers to its Fauna Hungáriáé work, but on the given way it means the first reliable record from Hungary. We think now that A. erenophila is indeed a Middle Asian species and all its European and North African records would need confirmation. In addition, one cannot know anything definitely on THALHAMMER'S record (even the generic relegation seems questionable). Consequently, I propose to delete A. eremophila LOEW, 1873 from the Hungarian list. It seems better to leave the above specimen unnamed until a revision of Apolysis. Figs 6-7. Apolysis species, male last two preabdominal sternites, ventral view. 6 = Apolysis sp. (Greece), 7 = A. szappanosi sp. n., holotype. Scale bar: 0.2 mm.