SCATHOPHAGIDAE

Papp, L., Merz, B. & Földvári, M., 2006, DIPTERA OF THAILAND A summary of the families and genera with references to the species representations, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (2), No. 2, pp. 97-269 : 224

SCATHOPHAGIDAE – B. MERZ

This family of mainly Holarctic distribution has its highest diversity in the northernmost parts of the Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions. It is therefore not surprising that the Scathophagidae are very poorly represented in the Oriental Region. Only 11 species (and only 4 of them named) are recorded in the CDO (VOCKEROTH 1977). A nice specimen of Paralleloma BECKER (using the key of DE JONG 1998) is the first species of this family recorded from Thailand. It is characterised by the apically darkened wing.

Paralleloma sp. – 1 m: N Thailand, 1720 m, Chiang Mai Province, Huai Nam Dang National

Park , 18 km E of Pai, 22.X.2000, leg. B. MERZ & P. SCHWENDINGER (MHNG).