NEUROCHAETIDAE, McAlpine, 1978

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 : 202-203

NEUROCHAETIDAE – B. MERZ

This peculiar family is also called “upside-down flies” because adults walk on leaves and stems always with the head directed downwards. Some 25 species in 4 genera are described, all from Old World Tropics (Afrotropical, Oriental and Australasian Regions). Only three named species of the genus Neurochaeta MCALPINE are known from the Oriental Region ( MCALPINE 1988). An unnamed species from “ Thailand ” was published by MCALPINE (1993, fig. 9 and Table 1) which seems to be associated with banana leaves. During field work a male of a probably described species was also swept on banana leaves in a wet forest near a small stream.

Neurochaeta capilo MCALPINE, 1988 – 1 m: N Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, above What Phrathat , 1100 m, 27.X.2000, leg. B. MERZ & P. SCHWENDINGER (MHNG).