Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 89. (Budapest 1997)

Papp, L.: Three new species and a new subspecies of Meoneura from the Alps (Diptera, Carnidae)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume89. Budapest, 1997 pp. 151-156. Three new species and a new subspecies of Meoneura from the Alps (Diptera, Carnidae) L. PAPP Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary PAPP, L. (1997): Three new species and a new subspecies of Meoneura from the Alps (Diptera, Carnidae). - Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 89: 151-156. Abstract - Meoneura carpathica pseudoflavifacies ssp. n., M. falcata sp. n., M. helvetica sp. n., M. longifurca sp. n. are described from the Alps (Switzerland and Austria). With 7 figures. INTRODUCTION In the course of the work for a manuscript of a part of Fauna Helvetica, numerous specimens of Carnidae were also identified. Some material from the Otztaler Alps (Tirol, Austria) in the Diptera collection of the Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest was also studied now. Besides rare and interesting species, altogether three new species and a new subspecies of Meoneura were found. The Alps seem to have several endemic species of carnids (Meoneura). Three species (M. alpina HENNIG, 1937, M. atoma L. PAPP, 1981, M.flavifrons L. PAPP, 1981) were formerly described from the Austrian mountains (PAPP 1984), which are found also in the present materials. The new species in this paper are possibly not the last newly described from there. As for morphological terms, those in SAPJROSKY (1987) are used almost exclusively. The sclerites cranial to the true surstyli in the male genitalia are termed as "lamellae" since they must not be "process of hypoproct" (cf. HENNIG 1937, PAPP 1976, 1977, 1981). Male parameres are not studied in detail since shape and armature of surstylus and lamella give enough data to characterize species. The type specimens are deposited in three collections: Entomologische Sammlung, Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (ETHZ), Collection Bächli/Zoological Museum, Zürich (coli. Bächli/ZMZ) and the Diptera Collection, Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (HNHM). The specimens are double mounted on minuten-pins if not otherwise stated. The male genitalia (usually with the whole abdomen) are preserved in Andersson's plastic microvial with glycerine under the rest of the specimen on the same insect pin.