New records of Sylvicola (Diptera: Anisopodidae) from Romania

Levente-Péter Kolcsár; Libor Dvořák; Paul Lt Beuk

doi:10.3897/BDJ.4.e7861

New records of Sylvicola (Diptera: Anisopodidae) from Romania

Biodivers Data J. 2016 Feb 8:(4):e7861. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7861. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Levente-Péter Kolcsár¹, Libor Dvořák², Paul Lt Beuk³

Affiliations

¹ Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
² Municipal Museum Mariánské Lázně, Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic.
³ Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht / Diptera.info, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Abstract

Background: Anisopodidae (window gnats or wood gnats) is a small family of nematocerous Diptera. Until now only Sylvicola (Anisopus) punctatus (Fabricius, 1787) and Sylvicola (Sylvicola) fenestralis (Scopoli, 1763) were reported from Romania.

New information: New faunistic records of Sylvicola (Diptera: Anisopodidae) are presented. Sylvicola (Sylvicola) cinctus (Fabricius, 1787) and S. (Anisopus) fuscatus (Fabricius, 1775) are recorded from Romania for the first time. An identification key and illustrations of Romanian Sylvicola species are presented.

Keywords: identification key; window gnats; wood gnats.