S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 32/2. (Budapest, 1979)
FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK (SERIES NOVA) XXXII. 2. p. 189-193 1979 Some Fungivorous Species of Sphaeroceridae and Drosophilidae (Diptera) from Karelia, USSR By L. PAPP (Received December 10, 1978) Abstract: The lists of the fungus host species for nine sphaerocerid and ten drosophilád species are given from materials collected in the Petrozavodsk region (Karelia, USSR). One species (Limosina karelica sp.n. ) is new to science, two sphaerocerid and one drosophilid species are new for the fauna of the USSR. Through the courtesy of Dr. E. B. JAKOVLEV (Institute of Forestry, Karelian Branch of the AN USSR, Petrozavodsk) I received a material of 49 vials with 89 specimens of Sphaeroceridae and 102 vials with 290 specimens of Drosophilidae, which had been reared by Dr. JAKOVLEV from fungi (Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes) in the Petrozavodsk region. (Thus, all the material below is labelled as USSR, Russian SFSR, Petrozavodsk region, leg. E. B. Jakovlev, 1977-78.) The fungivorous species of the family Sphaeroceridae are rather inadequately known. RICHARDS listed only nine species of the British Sphaeroceridae, which were found on fungi as imagos. The breeding records for fungivorous sphaerocerids are quite scattered (for references see PAPP, 1972), and only Limosina fungicol a Halid. and L. parapusio Dahl seem common fungivorous species in Europe. In this material nine species of Sphaeroceridae were found; one of them, Limosina karelica sp.n. is new to science, two species (Limosina czizeki Duda and Limosina schmitzi Duda) are new for the fauna of the USSR. The hitherto .unknown breeding medium for two species was ascertained and the mushrooms as breeding sites for other two species were established. Only one of the nine species ( Limosina parapusio Dahl) was reared from fungi also in Hungary. As regards the fungivorous species of the European Drosophilidae, numerous data are known (for detailed references see BURLA et BÄCHLI, 1968). The species of the phale- rata species-group of the subgenus Drosophila are restricted to fungi as breeding media for their larvae but also some other drosophilid species are known to be fungivorous. Ten drosophilid species were found now, eight of them were reared from mushrooms also in Hungary (DELY-DRASKOVITS and PAPP, 1973). Drosophila kuntzei Duda is new for the fauna of the USSR. It is the first time that the breeding medium of the larvae of Neoleucophenga quin- quemaculata was ascertained. My most sincere thanks are due to Dr. E.B. JAKOVLEV for giving me the opportunuty to elaborate this interesting material.
