CLUSIIDAE

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 : 189

CLUSIIDAE

There are rather few records of Clusiidae from Thailand. In the CDO only Tranomeringia zosteriformis SASAKAWA, 1966 (STEYSKAL 1977: 236) was listed. Later SASAKAWA (1986) described Czernyola thaiensis from Khao Yai , Nakhon Nayok. However, the literature i.e. knowledge on the Oriental Clusiidae has been on a higher level, than in most acalyptrate families. FREY’ s (1960) comprehensive paper on the “Indo-Australian” Clusiidae is the classical item, but MCALPINE’ s (1960) paper on the Australian species and some other shorter papers are also useful aids, when studying Oriental species. However, Prof. M. SASAKAWA, who published modern revisions on Heteromeringia CZERNY , described the related genus Tranomeringia (1966), on Craspedochaeta CZERNY ( Czernyola BEZZI ) (1971), on Clusiodes COQUILLETT (1987) , and other smaller papers, is the most important author.

In 2004 we selected and pinned 85 individuals from our collectings and seven individuals were collected in 2003. We found representatives of 24 species, a number of them must be new to science. For lack of time and expertise, we identified only some of the species, but all of them, except Tranomeringia zosteriformis , are first records for Thailand.