Contributions to the Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera) Fauna of Muğla provinces with the six new records for Türkiye

Abstract

In this study, we report the Turkey fauna of long-legged flies and new records of six species (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) collected from Muğla province during the 2018-2019 field trips. These species are Acropsilus niger (Loew, 1869), Hercostomus kravchenkoi (Grichanov ve Freidberg, 2018), Sybistroma leptocerca (Stackelberg, 1949), Oncopygius magnificus (Loew, 1873), Medetera glaucella (Kowarz, 1877), and Syntormon submonilis (Negrobov, 1975). Hercostomus kravchenkoi and Sybistroma leptocerca were collected for the first time after their identification. In total, 107 species from 10 subfamilies and 35 genera of Dolichopodidae are known from Muğla. With these records, the number of the Turkey Dolichopodidae species has reached 224.