Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Platypezidae

Seri obscuripennis (Oldenberg, 1916) Figure 12

Published records.

1 ♂, Herkulesbad [Băile Herculane, Caraș-Severin, Banat], 6.vi.1904, Kertész lgt. (Oldenberg 1916, Czerny 1930); Mehádia [Mehadia, Caraș-Severin, Banat] ( Szilády 1941).

Distribution.

Palaearctic species. Recorded in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and Russia (ER, FE).

Biology.

Rather rare in Europe but more common in the Far East of Russia (Shatalkin 1985, Chandler 2001). Its larvae develop in several species of Polyporus ( Ševčík 2010). Adults occur in VI–VII and IX.