Chloropidae

Chloropidae Rondani, 1856

Štěpán Kubík

Czech University of Agriculture, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Zoology and Fishery, CZ-165 21 Praha 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic; kubik@af.czu.cz

Adults are small flies, with body lengths from 1.5-5.0 mm, rarely larger, with reduced bristling. Body colour very variable, with most Central European species black, and often with a metallic sheen (subfamily Oscinellinae), and others yellow with black or brown longitudinal stripes on the mesonotum (subfamily Chloropinae). Frons broad in both sexes, usually with a large, strongly sclerotized, plate-like, sharply margined ocellar triangle; frons in profile usually only slightly projecting, face receding or slightly concave, and vibrissal angle obtusely rounded. Scutum usually longer than broad, convex, finely haired with hair often set in definite rows and sometimes with coarse, distinct, piliferous punctures. Scutellum short and rounded to elongate-conical, sometimes with marginal tubercles bearing bristles. The adults occur in various marshy habitats, in deciduous woods, in damp meadows and in fields. The larvae of chloropids have varied feeding habits. Many are phytophagous, with some damaging cereals and other grasses. Others are saprophagous, whilst a few species have been bred from fungi and some are predaceous.

Altogether 394 species are known to occur in Europe (Beshovski 1985, Kubík & Barták 2001); 218 are listed in the present checklist (203 in the Czech Republic, 156 in Slovakia). Many species occurring in the Czech Republic can be identified using the keys by Beshovski (1985), Dely-Draskovits (1978) and Duda (1933). The nomenclature in this checklist follows the Fauna Europaea (Nartshuk 2000).

References

[1] Beshovski V.L. 1985: Diptera, Chloropidae. In Fauna Bulgarica, Vol. 14. Aedibus Acad. Sci. Bulg., Sofia, 220 pp.

[2] Dely-Draskovits A. 1978: Chloropidae. In Fauna Hungariae. Vol. 15. No.9, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 61-194.

[3] Duda O. 1933: Chloropidae. In Lindner E. (ed.): Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region. Vol. 6 (1). Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 248 pp.

[4] Kubík Š. 1998: Chloropidae (Diptera) české strany Šumavy. Silva Gabreta 2: 233-237.

[5] Kubík Š. 1999: Chloropidae. In Rozkošný R & Vaňhara J. (eds): Diptera of the Pálava Biosphere Reserve of UNESCO, II. Folia Facultatis Scientiarium Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 100: 331-336.

[6] Kubík Š. 2001: The species of the family Chloropidae (Diptera, Acalyptrata) of the Rokytecká, Novohůrecká and Zhůřské peat-bogs in the Šumava Mts. (Czech Republic). Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Biologica 45: 79-88.

[7] Kubík Š. 2006: New records of Chloropidae (Diptera) from the Czech and Slovak republics. Entomofauna carpathica 18: 31-32.

[8] Kubík Š. & Barták M. 2001: Chloropidae. In Barták M. & Vaňhara J. (eds): Diptera in and Industrially Affected Region (North-Western Bohemia, Bílina and Duchcov Environs). Folia Facultatis Scientiarium Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 105: 395-400.

[9] Kubík Š. & Barták M. 2005: Chloropidae. In Kubík Š. & Barták M. (eds): Diptera of Podyjí National Park and its Environs. Česká zemědělská universita, Praha, pp. 318-325.

[10] Kubík Š., Roháček J. & Barták M. 1999: The species of the family Chloropidae (Diptera) of the six peat – bogs in the Šumava Mts. (Czech Republic. In Jedlička L. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca Vol. 9, Slovak Entomological Society, Bratislava, pp. 103-115.

[11] Nartshuk E.P. 1997: A revision of the Chloropidae (Insecta: Diptera) described by J.W.Meigen from the Winthem's Collection. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 99 B: 387-406.

[12] Nartshuk E.P. 2000: Holarctic grassflies of the genus Chloropsina Becker (Diptera, Chloropidae) with description of a new species. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 79: 254-261.

[13] Nartshuk E.P. 2005: Fauna Europaea: Chloropidae. In Pape T. (ed.): Fauna Europaea: Diptera, Brachycera. Fauna Europaea version 1.1, http://www.faunaeur.org.

[14] Nartshuk E.P. & Andersson H. 2002: New synonyms and overlooked species-group names in Palaearctic Chloropidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha). Zoosystematica Rossica 11: 187-191.

[15] Roháček J., Barták M. & Kubík Š. 1998: Diptera Acalyptrata of the Hraniční (Luzenská) slať peat-bog in the Šumava Mts. (Czech Republic). Časopis Slezského Muzea Opava (A) 47: 1-12.