First record of the rare aquatic dance fly Chelifera aperticauda Collin, 1927 (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae) from Slovakia

Jozef Obona; Peter Manko; Beáta Baranová; Katarína Kisková; Ľuboš Ľuboš; Iwona Słowińska

doi:10.15560/12.3.1894

Check List 12(3): e19496, doi: 10.15560/12.3.1894

First record of the rare aquatic dance fly Chelifera aperticauda Collin, 1927 (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae) from Slovakia

Jozef Oboňa^‡, Beáta Baranová^‡, Ľuboš Hrivniak^§, Katarína Kisková^|, Peter Manko^‡, Iwona Słowińska^¶

‡ University of Prešov, Slovakia§ Institute of Entomology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic| The National Park of Pieniny, Slovakia¶ University of Łódź, Poland

Corresponding author: Jozef Oboňa ( jozef_oboňa@fake_email.org )

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Citation: Obona J, Manko P, Baranová B, Kisková K, Ľuboš Ľ, Słowińska I (2016) First record of the rare aquatic dance fly Chelifera aperticauda Collin, 1927 (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae) from Slovakia. Check List 12(3): 1894. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.3.1894

Abstract

The scarce European dance fly Chelifera aperticauda Collin, 1927 (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae) is recorded for the first time from Slovakia. One male was found in the Pieniny Mts. The distribution and habitats of this species are reviewed and briefly discussed.

Keywords

Diptera; Empididae; Hemerodromiinae; rare species; first report; Slovakia