EMPIDIDAE

Papp, L., Merz, B. & Földvári, M., 2006, DIPTERA OF THAILAND A summary of the families and genera with references to the species representations, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (2), No. 2, pp. 97-269 : 152

EMPIDIDAE – M. FÖLDVÁRI

In the CDO SMITH (1975) did not list any species of Empididae from Thailand.

GROOTAERT & KIATSOONTHORN (2001) reported the genus Hilara for the first time from Thailand and described 5 new species of the subgenus Hilara (Hilara) from Thailand. HORVAT (2002) described two new species of the genus Chelifera from Thailand: C. malicky and C. thaica . DAUGERON & GROOTAERT (2003) reviewed a part of the Empis (Coptophlebia) hyalea -group and described 12 new species from Thailand: Empis (Coptophlebia) atratata , E. (C.) kosametensis, E. (C.) lamruensis, E. (C.) miranda, E. (C.) nahaeoensis , E. (C.) nganga, E. (C.) pakensis, E. (C.) pseudospinotibialis, E. (C.) pulchra, E. (C.) ratburiensis, E. (C.) spinotibialis and E. (C.) thapensis.

Staff members of the HNHM collected 76 empidids in 2003 and 200 indiv. in 2004. They belong to nine genera as follow: Hilara spp. (17+7 indiv.), Empis spp. (8+14 indiv.), Rhamphomyia spp. (8+0 indiv.), Phyllodromia spp. (19+2 indiv.), Hemerodromia spp. (6+149 indiv.), Chelipoda spp. (18+16 indiv.), Clinocera sp. (0+3 indiv.), Dolichocephala spp. (0+8 indiv.), Trichopeza sp. (0+1 indiv.).