| Abstract: | The 1997 check list of Dolichopodidae of the Czech Republic and Slovakia has recently been reviewed and updated. The new species
list includes 346 species with 22 species added as new to the fauna of the Czech Republic. While the check list itself is
published elsewhere, largely unpublished new records of Hercostomus argentifrons, H. nigrilamellatus, Medetera adjaniae, M. melancholica and M. setiventris are presented here, together with data on their distribution in Europe and their biology and ecology. The status of the newly
added Sympycnus desoutteri is discussed. H. argentifrons is recorded here for the first time from the Czech Republic (Bohemia; Moravia) and background information is given on its
discovery. While the Czech fauna with 324 species can be considered well known, the fauna of Slovakia is definitely much richer
than its current national list of 217 species suggests. In the latter country, in particular surveys of sandy habitats with
heathland or peatmoor, saltmarshes, reedmarshes, humid forests on loamy soils, and of rothole and saprun microhabitats on
trees might quickly yield new species records. |
