SPHAEROCERIDAE, Macquart, 1835

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 : 220-221

SPHAEROCERIDAE

The sphaerocerid fauna of Thailand was formerly little known. No concrete record for them was in the CDO ( HACKMAN 1977). As late as 1989 PAPP (1989 a, b) described one species each of two genera: Minocellina thaii (L. PAPP, 1989) (now Aptilotus thaii ) and Pterogrammoides thaii L. PAPP, 1989 . Later HAYASHI (1990) described Sphaerocera elephantis from Chiang Dao. Biroina burckhardti L. PAPP, 1995 was described from Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep . Six paratypes of Poecilosomella affinis HAYASHI, 2002 (p. 121) were described from Thailand. HAYASHI (2003) recorded Lotophila nepalensis HAYASHI, 1990 for the first time from Thailand. PAPP (2003) recorded Achaetothorax malayensis PAPP & NORRBOM, 1992 from Kaeng Krachan. HAYASHI & PAPP (2004) described three new species of Lotobia LIOY, 1864 also from Thailand (see below). The peculiar new genus of Copromyzinae , Immoderatus L. PAPP, 2004 was described most recently. The revision of the Oriental species of Chaetopodella DUDA, 1920 (actually the first record of the genus from the Oriental region) is published this year ( HAYASHI & PAPP 2006) with two new species from Thailand (142 individuals). Finally, Leptocera salatigae (DE MEIJERE, 1914) and L. sterniloba ROHÁČEK, 1983 are listed in the World catalog ( ROHÁČEK et al. 2001). All the other genera and species of Limosininae mentioned below are new for the fauna of Thailand.

Our new material is exceptionally rich. We selected and pinned 1988 sphaerocerid specimens in 2004. FÖLDVÁRI et al. collected nearly 700 specimens in 2003. All that material contains well over 100 species, about 70 of them seem to be new to science, incl. representatives of seven new genera .