Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
electronic version 2, 2009

Sphaeroceridae Macquart, 1835

Jindřich Roháček

Department of Entomology, Silesian Museum, Tyršova 1, CZ-746 01 Opava, Czech Republic; rohacek@szmo.cz

Minute to small (0.7-5.5 mm), rather robust, usually dull coloured flies, easily recognizable from other acalyptrates by the shortened and dilated hind basitarsus. Body brown to black, more rarely with yellow or reddish markings, also wing rarely dark spotted or legs variegated. Head with setae reduced (Sphaerocerinae) to rich and long (Limosininae). Interfrontalia and interfrontal setae well developed; gena high, eye relatively small; antenna small, with bare to long-plumose arista. Legs strong; mid tibia usually with a number of dorsal setae. Wing venation complete in Sphaerocerinae and Copromyzinae, reduced in Limosininae. Costa with two breaks, subcosta reduced. Alula and anal lobe well developed. Wing (and its venation) often reduced or absent. Fifth male sternum usually modified. Gonostylus disparate; hypandrium reduced, open posteriorly; male cercus usually fused with epandrium. Male genitalia with large postgonites, reduced pregonites and complex distiphallus. Female postabdomen variable. The larvae are generally saprophagous, feeding as microsaprophages on microorganisms, and developing in various decaying substrates, including dung, rotting vegetation, fungi or carrion. The adults occur in all habitats that contain the breeding media of the larvae, preferably in damp places. A few polysaprophagous species are synanthropic, living near human settlements; many coprophagous species are symbovilous and develop in dung heaps near stables or in pastures.

Altogether 41 genera and 257 species are known to occur in Europe and the adjacent island areas, as covered by Fauna Europaea (Roháček 2007a) but this number has recently been slightly changed because some subgenera were elevated to genera (Papp 2008) and one species has been added (Roháček 2009a). Altogether 172 species are listed in the present checklist: 160 in the Czech Republic (129 in Bohemia, 156 in Moravia), and 152 in Slovakia. Since the ECV1, the number of species in the Czech Republic has increased by one (none in Bohemia, two in Moravia) and in Slovakia by five. The family is slightly better known in the Czech Republic than in Slovakia. The Sphaeroceridae are characterised in detail by Roháček (1998), who also gave a key to all the Palaearctic genera, with references to specific papers for the identification of the species of particular genera. Identification tools for the Central European species are also referred to in Roháček and Barták (2001) and Roháček et al. (2001); these should be supplemented by papers by Carles-Tolrá (2001) and Roháček (2009a). The nomenclature in the present checklist follows Roháček et al. (2001), the Fauna Europaea (Roháček 2007a) and Papp (2008).

References

[1] Carles-Tolrá M. 2001: Two new Minilimosina Roháček species from Andorra (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae). Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 25(3-4): 9-15.

[2] Gatt P. 2000: The lesser dung flies (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) of the Maltese Islands. Studia dipterologica 7: 511-524.

[3] Papp L. 2008: New genera of the Old World Limosininae (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 54 (Suppl. 2): 47-209.

[4] Roháček J. 1998: 3.43. Family Sphaeroceridae. In Papp L. & Darvas B. (eds): Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 3., Higher Brachycera. Science Herald, Budapest, pp. 463-496.

[5] Roháček J. 1999a: Crumomyia tyrphophila sp.n., a new species of Copromyzinae (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) associated with peat-bogs in the Šumava Mts. (Czech Republic). Časopis Slezského zemského muzea, Opava (A) 48: 1-7.

[6] Roháček J. 1999b: Faunistic Notes: Sphaeroceridae. In Jedlička L. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca, Vol. 9, Slovak Entomological Society, Bratislava, p. 208.

[7] Roháček J. 2001a: The type material of Sphaeroceridae described by J. Villeneuve with lectotype designations and nomenclatural and taxonomic notes (Diptera). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 105 (2000): 467-478.

[8] Roháček J. 2001b: Faunistic records: Sphaeroceridae. In Chvála M. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca, Vol. 10. Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Biologica 45: 198.

[9] Roháček J. 2004: Sphaeroceridae. Faunistic records from the Czech and Slovak Republics: Diptera. In Kubík Š. & Barták M. (eds): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca 11. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 109: 344-345.

[10] Roháček J. 2006: Faunistic records from the Czech and Slovak Republics. Sphaeroceridae. In Kinkorová J. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca, Vol. 13. Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Biologica 50: 155-156.

[11] Roháček J. 2007a: Fauna Europaea: Sphaeroceridae. In Pape T. (ed.): Fauna Europaea: Diptera, Brachycera. Fauna Europaea version 1.3. <http://www.faunaeur.org>. Retrieved 15.10.2009.

[12] Roháček J. 2007b: Faunistic records from Czech Republic and Slovakia. Sphaeroceridae. In Stloukalová V. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca, Vol. 14. Acta Zoologica Universitatis Comenianae 47: 257-258.

[13] Roháček J. 2009a: West Palaearctic Minilimosina (Svarciella): a new species, new records, key and taxonomical notes (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae). Časopis Slezského zemského Muzea, Opava (A) 58: 97-114.

[14] Roháček J. 2009b: Sphaeroceridae. In Roháček J. & Ševčík J. (eds): Diptera of the Poľana Protected Landscape Area – Biosphere Reserve (Central Slovakia). SNC SR, Administration of the PLA – BR Poľana, Zvolen, pp. 260-271.

[15] Roháček J. & Barták M. 1999: Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) of peat-bogs in the Šumava Mts. (SW Bohemia, Czech Republic). Časopis Slezského zemského Muzea, Opava (A) 48: 9-32.

[16] Roháček J. & Barták M. 2001: Sphaeroceridae. In Barták M. & Vaňhara J. (eds): Diptera in an Industrially Affected Region (North-Western Bohemia, Bílina and Duchcov Environs), II. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 105: 415-423.

[17] Roháček J. & Košel V. 2003: Crumomyia glacialis (Meigen, 1830) in Slovakia, with description of the female and notes on variation and biology (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae). Časopis Slezského zemského Muzea, Opava (A) 51 (2002): 193-198.

[18] Roháček J., Kubík Š. & Barták M. 2005: Sphaeroceridae. In Barták M. & Kubík Š. (eds): Diptera of Podyjí National Park and its Environs. Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze, Praha, pp. 335-348.

[19] Roháček J., Marshall S.A., Norrbom A.L., Buck M., Quiros D.I. & Smith I. 2001: World catalog of Sphaeroceridae. Slezské zemské muzeum, Opava, 414 pp.

[20] Wheeler T.A. 1995: Systematics of the New World Rachispoda Lioy (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae): morphology, key to species-group, and revisions of the atra, fuscipennis, limosa and vespertina species groups. Journal of Natural History 29: 159-230.

COPROMYZINAE

Alloborborus Duda, 1923

pallifrons (Fallén, 1820)

)

Borborillus Duda, 1923

uncinatus (Duda, 1923)

(

)

vitripennis (Meigen, 1830)

(

)

Copromyza Fallén, 1809

equina Fallén, 1820

)

montana Roháček 1992

)

neglecta (Malloch, 1913)

)

nigrina (Gimmerthal, 1847)

)

stercoraria (Meigen, 1830)

)

Crumomyia Macquart, 1834

glabrifrons (Meigen, 1830)

)

glacialis (Meigen, 1830)

fimetaria (Meigen, 1830)

)

nigra (Meigen, 1830)

)

nitida (Meigen, 1830)

)

notabilis (Collin, 1902)

)

parentela alpicola Roháček in Troger & Roháček 1980

pedestris (Meigen, 1830)

)

pruinosa (Richards, 1932)

)

rohaceki Norrbom & Kim, 1985

)

setitibialis (Spuler, 1925)

)

tyrphophila Roháček 1999

)

zuskai (Roháček 1976)

)

Lotophila Lioy, 1864

atra (Meigen, 1830)

)

Norrbomia Papp 1988

costalis (Zetterstedt, 1847)

)

hispanica (Duda, 1923)

(

)

nilotica (Becker, 1903)

(

)

in PCV2 as N. nitidifrons (Duda, 1923) [19]

somogyii (Papp, 1973)

sordida (Zetterstedt, 1847)

)

SPHAEROCERINAE

Ischiolepta Lioy, 1864

crenata (Meigen, 1838)

)

denticulata (Meigen, 1830)

)

micropyga (Duda, 1938)

)

nitida (Duda, 1920)

)

pusilla (Fallén, 1820)

)

scabricula (Haliday, 1836)

)

vaporariorum (Haliday, 1836)

)

Lotobia Lioy, 1864

pallidiventris (Meigen, 1830)

(

)

Sphaerocera Latreille, 1804

curvipes Latreille, 1805

)

monilis Haliday, 1836

)

LIMOSININAE

Apteromyia Vimmer, 1929

claviventris (Strobl, 1909)

)

Aptilotus Mik, 1894

paradoxus Mik, 1894

)

Bifronsina Roháček 1983

in ECV1 as subgenus of Spelobia Spuler, 1924 [3]

bifrons (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

in ECV1 in genus Spelobia Spuler, 1924 [3]

Chaetopodella Duda, 1920

scutellaris (Haliday, 1836)

)

Coproica Rondani, 1861

acutangula (Zetterstedt, 1847)

)

digitata (Duda, 1918)

(

)

ferruginata (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

hirticula Collin, 1956

)

hirtula (Rondani, 1880)

)

lugubris (Haliday, 1836)

)

pappi Carles-Tolrá, 1990

pusio (Zetterstedt, 1847)

(

)

vagans (Haliday, 1833)

)

Elachisoma Rondani, 1880

aterrimum (Haliday, 1833)

)

bajzae Papp 1983

)

pilosum (Duda, 1924)

)

Eulimosina Roháček 1983

in ECV1 as subgenus of Spelobia Spuler, 1924 [3]

ochripes (Meigen, 1830)

)

in ECV1 in genus Spelobia Spuler, 1924 [3]

Gigalimosina Roháček 1983

flaviceps (Zetterstedt, 1847)

)

Gonioneura Rondani, 1880

spinipennis (Haliday, 1836)

)

Herniosina Roháček 1983

bequaerti (Villeneuve, 1917)

)

horrida (Roháček 1978)

)

pollex Roháček 1993

)

Leptocera Olivier, 1813

alpina Roháček 1982

)

caenosa (Rondani, 1880)

)

finalis (Collin, 1956)

(

)

fontinalis (Fallén, 1826)

)

nigra Olivier, 1813

)

oldenbergi (Duda, 1918)

)

Limosina Macquart, 1835

silvatica (Meigen, 1830)

)

Minilimosina Roháček 1983

Allolimosina Roháček 1983

albinervis (Duda, 1918)

(

)

alloneura (Richards, 1952)

(

)

secundaria (Duda, 1918)

(

)

Minilimosina s.str.

bicuspis Roháček 1993

)

curvispina Carles-Tolrá 2001

(

)

fungicola (Haliday, 1836)

)

gemella Roháček 1983

)

parvula (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

tenera Roháček 1983

(

)

trogeri Roháček 1983

Svarciella Roháček 1983

bartaki Roháček , 2009

(

)

floreni Roháček & Marshall 1988

(

)

v-atrum (Villeneuve, 1917)

)

in PCV2 as M. splendens (Duda, 1928) [7]

guestphalica (Duda, 1918)

)

in PCV2 erroneously as M. v-atrum (Villeneuve, 1917) [7]

pujadei Carles-Tolrá 2001

(

)

vitripennis (Zetterstedt, 1847)

)

Opacifrons Duda, 1918

coxata (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

maculifrons (Becker, 1907)

(

)

moravica (Roháček 1975)

(

)

Opalimosina Roháček 1983

Dentilimosina Roháček 1983

denticulata (Duda, 1924)

)

Hackmanina Roháček 1983

czernyi (Duda, 1918)

)

Opalimosina s.str.

calcarifera (Roháček 1975)

(

)

collini (Richards, 1929)

)

mirabilis (Collin, 1902)

)

simplex (Richards, 1929)

)

Pappiella Roháček 1983

liliputana (Rondani, 1880)

)

Paralimosina Papp 1973

in PCV2 erroneously as subgenus in Opalimosina

fucata (Rondani, 1880)

)

kaszabi Papp 1973

)

subcribrata (Roháček 1977)

)

trichopyga (Richards, 1952)

)

Philocoprella Richards, 1929

italica (Deeming, 1964)

quadrispina (Laurence, 1952)

(

)

Phthitia Enderlein 1938

Alimosina Roháček 1983

empirica (Hutton, 1901)

)

Collimosina Roháček 1983

spinosa (Collin, 1930)

)

Kimosina Roháček 1983

longisetosa (Dahl, 1909)

)

plumosula (Rondani, 1880)

)

Pseudocollinella Duda, 1924

humida (Haliday, 1836)

)

jorlii (Carles-Tolrá 1990)

Pteremis Rondani, 1856

fenestralis (Fallén, 1820)

)

Pullimosina Roháček 1983

Dahlimosina Roháček 1983

dahli (Duda, 1918)

)

Pullimosina s.str.

moesta (Villeneuve, 1918)

)

in PCV2 as P. antennata (Duda, 1918) [7]

heteroneura (Haliday, 1836)

)

meijerei (Duda, 1918)

)

vulgesta Roháček 2001

)

in PCV2 erroneously as P. moesta (Villeneuve, 1917) [7]

pullula (Zetterstedt, 1847)

)

Puncticorpus Duda, 1918

cribratum (Villeneuve, 1918)

)

Rachispoda Lioy, 1864

anceps (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

breviceps (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

brevior (Roháček 1991)

(

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [2]

cilifera (Rondani, 1880)

(

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

duplex (Roháček 1991)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

fuscipennis (Haliday, 1833)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [20]

gel (Papp 1978)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [2]

hostica (Villeneuve, 1917)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

intermedia (Duda, 1918)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

limosa (Fallén, 1820)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [20]

longior (Roháček 1991)

(

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

lugubrina (Zetterstedt, 1847)

(

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

lutosa (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

lutosoidea (Duda, 1938)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [2]

modesta (Duda, 1924)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

opinata (Roháček 1991)

(

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

pseudohostica (Duda, 1924)

(

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

segem (Roháček 1991)

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

tuberosa (Duda, 1938)

(

)

in PCV2 in genus Leptocera [19]

Rudolfina Roháček 1987

rozkosnyi (Roháček 1975)

(

)

Spelobia Spuler, 1924

belanica Roháček 1983

)

cambrica (Richards, 1929)

)

clunipes (Meigen, 1830)

)

czizeki (Duda, 1918)

)

faeroensis (Deeming, 1966)

ibrida Roháček 1983

)

luteilabris (Rondani, 1880)

)

manicata (Richards, 1927)

)

nana (Rondani, 1880)

)

palmata (Richards, 1927)

)

pappi Roháček 1983

)

parapusio (Dahl, 1909)

)

pseudonivalis (Dahl, 1909)

)

pseudosetaria (Duda, 1918)

)

rufilabris (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

simplicipes (Duda, 1925)

talis Roháček 1983

)

talparum (Richards, 1927)

)

Spinilimosina Roháček 1983

brevicostata (Duda, 1918)

(

)

Telomerina Roháček 1983

eburnea Roháček 1983

)

flavipes (Meigen, 1830)

)

levifrons (Spuler, 1925)

(

)

pseudoleucoptera (Duda, 1924)

)

ursina Roháček 1983

Terrilimosina Roháček 1983

racovitzai (Bezzi, 1911)

)

schmitzi (Duda, 1918)

)

corrivalis (Villeneuve, 1917)

)

in PCV2 as T. sudetica (Roháček, 1975) [7]

Thoracochaeta Duda, 1918

brachystoma (Stenhammar, 1855)

)

zosterae (Haliday, 1833)

)

Trachyopella Duda, 1918

Nudopella Roháček & Marshall 1986

hem Roháček & Marshall 1986

)

leucoptera (Haliday, 1836)

)

Trachyopella s.str.

artivena Roháček & Marshall 1986

)

in PCV2 in subgenus Insulomyia Papp, 1972 [19]

atomus (Rondani, 1880)

)

bovilla Collin, 1954

(

)

coprina (Duda, 1918)

)

kuntzei (Duda, 1918)

)

lineafrons (Spuler, 1925)

)

melania (Haliday, 1836)

)

minuscula Collin, 1956

)

in PCV2 in subgenus Minuscula Roháček & Marshall, 1986 [19]

straminea Roháček & Marshall 1986

)