Four new West Palaearctic species and new distributional records of Hybotidae (Diptera)

Liliana Kanavalová; Patrick Grootaert; Štěpán Kubík; Miroslav Barták

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1019.61496

Four new West Palaearctic species and new distributional records of Hybotidae (Diptera)

Zookeys. 2021 Feb 22:1019:141-162. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1019.61496. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Liliana Kanavalová¹, Patrick Grootaert², Štěpán Kubík¹, Miroslav Barták¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00, Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Czech Republic.
² Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, B - 1000, Brussels, Belgium Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Brussels Belgium.

Abstract

Megagrapha starki Barták & Grootaert, sp. nov. (Poland, Russia, Slovakia), Oedalea portugalica Barták & Grootaert, sp. nov. (Portugal), Hybos conicus Grootaert & Barták, sp. nov. (Greece, Turkey), and Platypalpus obscuroides Barták & Grootaert, sp. nov. (Slovakia) are described and illustrated. Diagnostic characters are discussed. The female of Syndyas merzi Shamshev & Grootaert, 2012 is described for the first time. New distributional records are presented: Megagrapha europaea Papp & Földvári, 2001 is first reported from Slovakia and Syndyas merzi Shamshev & Grootaert, 2012 is first reported from Turkey.

Keywords: Hybos; Megagrapha; Oedalea; Platypalpus; Syndyas; Descriptions; distribution; new species; re-description; taxonomy.

Liliana Kanavalová, Patrick Grootaert, Štěpán Kubík, Miroslav Barták.