Diagnosis. Very small to small flies (0.5-6.0 mm); general posture somewhat arched, body colour ranging from pale whitish, yellowish or greyish to velvety black. Head with large eyes; palpi prominent, even when small; third antennal segment often more or less cylindrical and arista directed sideways. Wings with characteristically reduced venation, C and radial sector well developed; remaining veins weak and emanating from close to radial sector. Legs typically with stout femora; hind femora often somewhat laterally flattened. The abdomen may have reduced tergites in some females.
Biology. The different life-strategies for the Phoridae belong to the most diverse for a single family among the insects. They are found in nearly all terrestrial habitats and some aquatic ones. Some recorded modes of life are saprophagy (including insect frass, bat dung, mammalian corpses [even buried ones], dead snails, etc.), fungivory, commensalism (refuse in nests of social Hymenoptera), parasitism (e.g., on earthworms, slug eggs, snails, millipedes, larvae and/or pupae of different insects orders) and phytophagy (leafmining, roots, seed capsules, flower buds, fruits). Adults are often found running on leaves but can be found on virtually any surface. In some species the males form swarms.
General references. Borgmeier (1968 [world catalogue]), Brown (1987 [Gymnophora], 1992 [classification, phylogeny]), Buck & Disney (2001 [M. giraudii and M. densior species complexes]), Disney (1983 [keys, excluding Megaselia], 1989 [Megaselia], 1991 [catalogue], 1994 [general], 1998 [general, key to genera], 1999a [Megaselia pulicaria-complex], 2000 [Pseudacteon]), Disney & Beuk (1997 [Phalacrotophora]), Mostovski & Mikhailovskaya (2003 [Gymnophora]), , Peterson (1987b [general, key to genera]), Schmitz (1918, 1919, and 1920 [species from Limburg, key], 1927 and 1928 [family revision], 1929b [family revision], 1940, 1941a, 1941b and 1941c [European revision], 1941e, 1943a, 1943b, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1958 [keys in Lindner]), Schmitz & Beyer (1965a and 1965b [keys in Lindner]), Schmitz & Delage (1981 [keys in Lindner]), Schmitz et al. (1974 [keys in Lindner]).
References to the local fauna. Anonymous (1928), Beuk & Zeegers (1992), Beuk et al. (1993, 1994), Borgmeier (1968), Disney (1991, 2000), Disney & Beuk (1997), Disney & Chapman (2001), De Meijere (1920a, 1928a, 1935), Schmitz (1916a, 1917, 1920, 1929b, 1933, 1934, 1939, 1941b, 1941c, 1941d, 1943a, 1943b, 1949, 1953, 1955), Schmitz & Beyer (1965a, 1965b), Schmitz et al. (1974).
Remarks. Dr R.H.L. Disney (Cambridge, U.K.) kindly reviewed the printed version of the checklist and made several very useful comments.
How to quote this page: Beuk, P.L.Th., 2022. Family Phoridae. In: Beuk, P.L.Th. (Ed.): Checklist of the Diptera of the Netherlands, https://diptera-info.nl/news.php?fam=Phoridae (date accessed: 17/05/2024).
NL: 260, 1?
B: 128
D: 259, 1?
UK: 341
World: 3000
PHORIDAE
AENIGMATIINAE
Aenigmatias Meinert, 1890
= Platyphora Verrall, 1877: preocc.
dorni (Enderlein, 1908)
= lubbocki (Verrall, 1871): misident. sensu Schmitz, 1916
Diplonevra Lioy, 1864
= Tristoechia Schmitz, 1927
= Diploneura Schmitz, 1929: emend.
abbreviata (von Roser, 1840)
= sordidipennis (Dufour, 1841)
concinna (Meigen, 1830)
= crassicornis (Meigen, 1830): misident. sensu Zetterstedt, 1848
florescens (Turton, 1801)
= florea (Fabricius, 1794): preocc.
= abdominalis (Fallén, 1823)
= palpina (Zetterstedt, 1848)
= flexuosa (Egger, 1862)
= sororcula (Van der Wulp, 1871)
T
= versicolor (Schmitz, 1920)
T?
funebris (Meigen, 1830)
= rostralis (Schmitz, 1918)
glabra Schmitz, 1927
T
Note 1
= parcepilosa Schmitz, 1927
nitidula (Meigen, 1830)
= concinna (Meigen, 1830): misident. sensu Becker, 1901
= distincta (Egger, 1862)
pachycera (Schmitz, 1918)
T; again added as zuijleni by Disney (2003: 87)
Note 2
= zuijleni Disney, 2003
T
pilosella Schmitz, 1927
T
Dohrniphora Dahl, 1898
cornuta (Bigot in De la Sagra, 1856)
= chlorogastra (Becker, 1901)
CONICERINAE
Conicera Meigen, 1830
= Hypocerina Malloch, 1913
= Tritoconicera Schmitz, 1952
dauci (Meigen, 1830)
= atra Meigen, 1830
floricola Schmitz, 1938
= similis (Haliday, 1833): misident. sensu Schmitz, 1920
= fulvipalpis Schmitz, 1920
T
Note 3
= minuscula Schmitz, 1953
T
schnittmanni Schmitz, 1926
similis (Haliday, 1833)
= pauxilla Schmitz, 1920
T
tarsalis Schmitz, 1920
T
tibialis Schmitz, 1925
= albipennis (Meigen, 1830)
Note 4
= fallens Schmitz, 1948
Gymnoptera Lioy, 1864
= Gymnophora Macquart, 1835: error
longicostalis Schmitz, 1933
= vitripennis (Meigen, 1830): misident. sensu Wood, 1906
vitripennis (Meigen, 1830)
= genitalis (Schmitz, 1927)
T
= genalis (Schmitz, 1927): misspelling in Disney, 1991
HYPOCERINAE
Borophaga Enderlein, 1924
femorata (Meigen, 1830)
= flavimana (Meigen, 1830)
subsultans (Linnaeus, 1767)
= okellyi (Schmitz, 1937)
Hypocera Lioy, 1864
mordellaria (Fallén, 1823)
= subsultans (Linnaeus, 1767): misident. sensu Schmitz, 1929b
Peromitra Enderlein, 1924
Note 5
= Borophaga Enderlein, 1924: misident. sensu auct., pro parte
agilis (Meigen, 1830)
carinifrons (Zetterstedt, 1848)
erythrocera (Meigen, 1830)
= bernuthi (Egger, 1862)
germanica (Schmitz, 1918)
incrassata (Meigen, 1830)
METOPININAE
Beckerina Malloch, 1910
umbrimargo (Becker, 1901)
Gymnophora Macquart, 1835
arcuata (Meigen, 1830)
nigripennis Schmitz, 1926
= fuliginosa (Macquart, 1835): misident. sensu Schmitz, 1920
quartomollis Schmitz, 1920
T
Megaselia Rondani, 1856
= Aphiochaeta Brues, 1903
= Plastophora Brues, 1905
subg. Kerophora Brown, 1988
Note 6
aristica (Schmitz, 1920)
Note 7
= mirifica Schmitz, 1934
T
subg. Megaselia Rondani, 1856
aculeata (Schmitz, 1919)
T
aequalis (Wood, 1909)
affinis (Wood, 1909)
= proxima (Lundbeck, 1920)
= ornatipes Schitz, 1926
albicans (Wood, 1908)
albicaudata (Wood, 1910)
albiclava (Schmitz, 1926)
T
alticolella (Wood, 1909)
altifrons (Wood, 1909)
analis (Lundbeck, 1920)
angelicae (Wood, 1910)
angusta (Wood, 1909)
Note 8
= pulicaria (Fallén, 1823): misident. sensu auct.
annulipes (Schmitz, 1921)
N; added by Beuk (2016b: 186)
armata (Wood, 1909)
added by Schmitz (1957: 434)
basispinata (Lundbeck, 1920)
beckeri (Wood, 1909)
berndseni (Schmitz, 1919)
T
= pygmaeoides (Lundbeck, 1921)
beyeri Schmitz, 1965
added by Schmitz in Schmitz & Beyer (1965b: 606)
bovista (Gimmerthal, 1848)
= exigua (Wood, 1910)
= cinerella (Lundbeck, 1920)
brevicornis Schmitz, 1938
T
brevicostalis (Wood, 1910)
breviseta (Wood, 1912)
breviterga (Lundbeck, 1920)
campestris (Wood, 1908)
ciliata (Zetterstedt, 1848)
cinerea Schmitz, 1938
T
cinereifrons (Strobl, 1910)
= anisodactyla (Schmitz, 1919)
T
citrinella Buck in Buck & Disney, 2001
added by Buck & Disney (2001: 112)
coacta (Lundbeck, 1920)
collini (Wood, 1909)
communiformis (Schmitz, 1918)
T
= armipes Schmitz, 1933
T
conformis (Wood, 1909)
= carpalis (Schmitz, 1919)
T
consetigera (Schmitz, 1925)
correlata (Schmitz, 1918)
T
costalis (von Roser, 1840)
cothurnata (Schmitz, 1919)
T
crassicosta (Strobl, 1892)
crassipes (Wood, 1909)
= dactylata (Lundbeck, 1920)
curvicapilla Schmitz, 1947
added by Schmitz (1958: 483)
dahli (Becker, 1901)
Note 9
= humilis (Wood, 1909)
= hibernica Schmitz, 1938
densior Schmitz, 1927
[T]
devia Schmitz, 1936
T
discreta (Wood, 1909)
= nudiventris (Wood, 1909)
= aperta (Schmitz, 1921)
diversa (Wood, 1909)
= sordescens Schmitz, 1927
T
dubitalis (Wood, 1908)
elongata (Wood, 1914)
= cuspidata (Schmitz, 1919)
T
= pungens (Lundbeck, 1920)
emarginata (Wood, 1908)
errata (Wood, 1912)
fenestralis (Schmitz, 1919)
T
feronia Schmitz, 1934
T
flava (Fallén, 1823)
flavescens (Wood, 1909)
flavicans Schmitz, 1935
T
flavicoxa (Zetterstedt, 1848)
frameata Schmitz, 1927
[T]
fumata (Malloch, 1909)
fungivora (Wood, 1909)
furcatipennis Schmitz, 1934
= furcatinervis Schmitz, 1934: incorrect spelling
fusca (Wood, 1909)
fuscinervis (Wood, 1908)
fuscovariana Schmitz, 1933
T
glabrifrons (Wood, 1909)
gregaria (Wood, 1910)
halterata (Wood, 1910)
= plurispinosa (Lundbeck, 1920)
hexanophila Buck in Buck & Disney, 2001
T; added by Buck & Disney (2001: 101)
hibernans Schmitz, 1935
T
Note 10
hilaris Schmitz, 1927
[T]
hirsuta (Wood, 1910)
= atrimana (Wood, 1912)
= egregia (Lundbeck, 1922)
= hastata (Schmitz, 1922)
T
hirticaudata (Wood, 1910)
hirticrus (Schmitz, 1918)
T
hirtiventris (Wood, 1909)
hortensis (Wood, 1909)
humeralis (Zetterstedt, 1838)
hyalipennis (Wood, 1912)
hypopygialis (Lundbeck, 1920)
ignobilis (Schmitz, 1919)
T
immodensior Disney in Buck & Disney, 2001
added by Buck & Disney (2001: 103)
indifferens (Lundbeck, 1920)
= perciliata (Lundbeck, 1920)
infraposita (Wood, 1909)
insons (Lundbeck, 1920)
intercostata (Lundbeck, 1921)
involuta (Wood, 1910)
largifrontalis Schmitz, 1939
= largifrontalis Schmitz, 1929: nomen nudum
lata (Wood, 1910)
latifemorata (Becker, 1901)
latifrons (Wood, 1910)
latipalpis (Schmitz, 1921)
limburgensis (Schmitz, 1918)
T
longicostalis (Wood, 1912)
longipalpis (Wood, 1910)
longiseta (Wood, 1909)
lucifrons (Schmitz, 1918)
T
Note 11
= subnitida (Lundbeck, 1920)
lutea (Meigen, 1830)
= sulphuripes (Meigen, 1830): misident. sensu Lundbeck, 1922
luteipes (Schmitz, 1918)
[T?]
lutescens (Wood, 1910)
major (Wood, 1912)
manicata (Wood, 1910)
= hirsuta (Wood, 1910): misident. sensu Schmitz, 1929b
manualis (Schmitz, 1919)
T
maura (Wood, 1910)
meconicera (Speiser, 1925)
= albipennis (Wood, 1909): preocc.
meigeni (Becker, 1901)
melanocephala (von Roser, 1840)
minor (Zetterstedt, 1848)
= angustifrons (Wood, 1912)
minuta (Aldrich, 1892)
= luminosa Schmitz, 1952
T
mixta (Schmitz, 1918)
T
nasoni (Malloch, 1914)
= coaequalis (Schmitz, 1919)
T
nigra (Meigen, 1830)
= albidihalteris (Felt in Lintner, 1896)
= albidohalteris (Felt in Lintner, 1896): incorrect spelling
= deflexa Schmitz, 1929: nomen nudum
nigrescens (Wood, 1910)
nigriceps (Loew, 1866)
= projecta (Becker, 1901)
= funesta De Meijere, 1928: nomen nudum
= funesta Schmitz, 1935
oblongifrons Schmitz, 1939
T; added by Schmitz (1939: 181)
obscuripennis (Wood, 1909)
offuscata (Schmitz, 1921)
T
= pseudorata (Schmitz, 1922)
T
paludosa (Wood, 1908)
parva (Wood, 1909)
pectoralis (Wood, 1910)
pedatella (Schmitz, 1926)
T
perdistans (Schmitz, 1924)
picta (Lehmann, 1822)
= interrupta (Zetterstedt, 1838)
pilifemur (Lundbeck, 1921)
pleuralis (Wood, 1909)
plurispinulosa (Zetterstedt, 1860)
posticata (Strobl, 1898)
praeacuta (Schmitz, 1919)
propinqua (Wood, 1909)
protarsalis Schmitz, 1927
[T?]
pseudogiraudii (Schmitz, 1920)
[T?]
pulicaria (Fallén, 1823)
Note 8
= sinuata Schmitz, 1926
pumila (Meigen, 1830)
= atripes (Brues, 1915)
pusilla (Meigen, 1830)
= clavipes (Wood, 1910)
pygmaea (Zetterstedt, 1848)
quadriseta (Schmitz, 1918)
T
= phoenicura (Schmitz, 1926)
rata (Collin in Wood, 1908)
Note 12
= giraudii (Egger, 1862): unavailable
= meigeni (Becker, 1901): misident. sensu Schmitz, 1920
rubella (Schmitz, 1920)
rufa (Wood, 1908)
= rubra (Schmitz, 1918)
ruficornis (Meigen, 1830)
rufifrons (Wood, 1910)
rufipes (Meigen, 1804)
= heracleellae (Bouché, 1834)
sanguinea (Schmitz, 1922)
T
schutti Schmitz, 1936
added by Schmitz (1958: 466)
scutellaris (Wood, 1909)
= scutellariformis (Schmitz, 1926)
T
sepulchralis (Lundbeck, 1920)
setulipalpis Schmitz, 1938
T
= setulipalpis Schmitz, 1929: nomen nudum
simplex (Wood, 1910)
simulans (Wood, 1912)
spinicincta (Wood, 1910)
stichata (Lundbeck, 1920)
stigmatica (Schmitz, 1920)
T
styloprocta (Schmitz, 1921)
T
Note 13
subcarpalis (Lundbeck, 1920)
subconvexa (Lundbeck, 1920)
subfraudulenta Schmitz, 1933
T
subnudipennis (Schmitz, 1919)
subpalpalis (Lundbeck, 1920)
added by Schmitz (1941b: 16)
subpleuralis (Wood, 1909)
subtumida (Wood, 1909)
sulphuripes (Meigen, 1830)
= fuscohalterata (Schmitz, 1919)
= xanthogastra Schmitz, 1940
[T]
superciliata (Wood, 1910)
= consimilis (Lundbeck, 1920)
= angustipennis (Lundbeck, 1920)
surdifrons (Wood, 1909)
= irregularifrons (Schmitz, 1921)
T
sylvatica (Wood, 1910)
= impolluta (Schmitz, 1920)
T
tama (Schmitz, 1926)
tarsalis (Wood, 1910)
tarsella (Lundbeck, 1921)
added by Schmitz (1941c: 34)
tergata (Lundbeck, 1920)
added by Schmitz et al. (1974: 631)
triquetra Schmitz, 1927
T
tumida (Wood, 1909)
uliginosa (Wood, 1909)
unguicularis (Wood, 1909)
unicolor (Schmitz, 1919)
T
ustulata (Schmitz, 1920)
T
= pallida (Lundbeck, 1921)
variana Schmitz, 1926
= variabilis (Wood, 1909): preocc.
verna Schmitz, 1932
T
= vernalis (Wood, 1909): misident. sensu Lundbeck, 1922
vernalis (Wood, 1909)
vestita (Wood, 1914)
virilis (Schmitz, 1919)
T
waagei Schmitz, 1935
T
zonata (Zetterstedt, 1838)
Metopina Macquart, 1835
= Leptophora Six, 1878
braueri (Strobl, 1880)
= cuneata Schmitz, 1924
T
crassinervis Schmitz, 1920
T
galeata (Haliday, 1833)
N
Note 14
heselhausi Schmitz, 1914
T
Note 15
perpusilla (Six, 1878)
T
= galeata (Haliday, 1833): misident. sensu auct.
Phalacrotophora Enderlein, 1912
berolinensis Schmitz, 1920
N
beuki Disney in Disney & Beuk, 1997
T; added by Disney & Beuk (1997: 185)
delageae Disney, 1979
N; added by Disney & Beuk (1997: 188)
fasciata (Fallén, 1823)
N
= nigrocincta (De Meijere, 1907)
T
Plectanocnema Schmitz, 1926
nudipes (Becker, 1901)
Pseudacteon Coquillett, 1907
formicarum (Verrall, 1877)
N
lundbecki Schmitz, 1924
T; type material probably lost (see Disney, 2000: 85)
Woodiphora Schmitz, 1926
retroversa (Wood, 1908)
PHORINAE
Anevrina Lioy, 1864
= Aneurina Lioy, 1864:
curvinervis (Becker, 1901)
thoracica (Meigen, 1804)
= claripennis (Becker, 1901)
unispinosa (Zetterstedt, 1860)
= fennica (Becker, 1901)
urbana (Meigen, 1830)
= caliginosa (Meigen, 1820): misident. sensu Malloch, 1912
Chaetopleurophora Schmitz, 1922
erythronota (Strobl, 1892)
= nigrodorsata (Strobl, 1910)
pygidialis Schmitz, 1941
T; added by Schmitz (1941d: 63)
= bohemanni (Becker, 1901): misident. sensu Schmitz, 1917
= pygidialis Schmitz, 1940: nomen nudum
spinosa Schmitz, 1935
T
spinosissima (Strobl, 1892)
added by Schmitz (1941e: 104)
Phora Latreille, 1796
= Trineura Meigen, 1803
artifrons Schmitz, 1920
added by Schmitz (1953: 318)
atra (Meigen, 1804)
= aterrima (Fabricius, 1794): preocc.
dubia (Zetterstedt, 1848)
= schineri (Becker, 1901)
edentata Schmitz, 1920
T
holosericea Schmitz, 1920
T
= velutina Meigen, 1830: misident. sensu De Meijere, 1920
pubipes Schmitz, 1920
added by Schmitz (1955: 337)
tincta Schmitz, 1920
T
velutina Meigen, 1830
= batava Schmitz, 1920
T
Spiniphora Malloch, 1909
bergenstammi (Mik, 1864)
= domestica (Wood, 1906)
dorsalis (Becker, 1901)
= immaculata (Strobl, 1894): preocc.
excisa (Becker, 1901)
= bergenstammi (Mik, 1864): misident. sensu Becker, 1901
maculata (Meigen, 1830)
= helicivora (Dufour, 1841)
Triphleba Rondani, 1856
aprilina (Schmitz, 1918)
T
= radiosetosa (Schmitz, 1918)
autumnalis (Becker, 1901)
bicornuta (Strobl, 1910)
= uncinata (Schmitz, 1918)
T
crassinervis (Strobl, 1910)
distinguenda (Strobl, 1892)
= unispinosa (Zetterstedt, 1860): misident. sensu Becker, 1901
= unicalcarata (Becker, 1901)
dudai (Schmitz, 1918)
= pauciseta (Schmitz, 1918)
Note 16
excisa (Lundbeck, 1921)
added by Schmitz (1943b: 163)
= octobris (Schmitz, 1921)
hentrichi Schmitz, 1934
T
hyalinata (Meigen, 1830)
= perennis (Meigen, 1838)
intempesta (Schmitz, 1918)
added by Schmitz (1943b: 172)
intermedia (Malloch, 1908)
lugubris (Meigen, 1830)
= sublugubris (Wood, 1906)
luteifemorata (Wood, 1906)
= similis (Lundbeck, 1921)
nivalis (Rondani, 1856)
added as novembrina by Schmitz (1943b: 180)
= novembrina Schmitz, 1943
T
nudipalpis (Becker, 1901)
opaca (Meigen, 1830)
= nigricornis (Egger, 1862)
papillata (Wingate, 1906)
= lugubris (Meigen, 1830): misident. sensu Wingate, 1906
renidens Schmitz, 1927
added by Schmitz (1943b: 187)
trinervis (Becker, 1901)
tumidula (Schmitz, 1918)
vitrea (Wood, 1906)
added as inaequalis by Schmitz (1943b: 172)
Note 17
= inaequalis Schmitz, 1943: pro parte, mixed type-series
Note 18
Doubtful species
Phora Latreille, 1796
stictica Meigen, 1830
Note 19
Deleted species
Gymnophora Macquart, 1835
integralis Schmitz, 1920
listed by Brown (1987: 285)
Note 20
Megaselia Rondani, 1856
subg. Megaselia Rondani, 1856
eisfelderae Schmitz, 1948
Note 21
indistincta De Meijere, 1929: nomen nudum
Note 22
rupestris Schmitz, 1934
Note 23
septentrionalis (Schmitz, 1919)
Note 24
transversalis De Meijere, 1929: nomen nudum
Note 25
Triphleba Rondani, 1856
dentata Schmitz, 1943
Note 26
inaequalis Schmitz, 1943
added by Schmitz (1943b: 172)
Note 18
Notes
Note 1
The name parcepilosa has page priority, but Schmitz (1949: 227) as first reviser adopted the name glabra.
Note 2
Synonymy by Disney (2012: 217).
Note 3
An ICZN opinion is required for suppression of fulvipalpis cf. Disney (1991: 149). Schmitz (1953: 288-289) states in a short discussion that the name fulvipalpis should not be considered as a taxonomic name but rather a description of specific variation (aberration).
Note 4
Questionable synonym cf. Disney (1991: 149).
Note 5
This former subgenus of Borophaga was elevated to generic status by Brown (1992: 37), who concluded that this group was related more closely to other genera than to Borophaga. Disney (1994: 269) rejected this proposal and was followed in several other recent catalogues (Chandler, 1998a; Presscher, 1999).
Note 6
Kerophora was reduced to subgeneric level by Disney (1994: 280).
Note 7
This synonym was not listed by Disney (1991: 156).
Note 8
Disney (1999a: 1172, 1201) states that most of the published records of M. pulicaria refer to M. angusta and that M. sinuata is the same species as the true M. pulicaria.
Note 9
Again added as hibernica by Schmitz & Beyer (1965b: 578).
Note 10
The year of description is corrected to 1935. Disney (1991: 167) seems to accept the publication by Schmitz (1934: lx) as valid description. However, no distinguishing characters are mentioned for this species: ’..., staat dicht bij M. angustipennis Lundbck. en superciliata Wood. Zij overwintert in konijnenholen, blijkbaar als imago, wat bij Phoriden zelden voorkomt.’ [’..., close to M. angustipennis Lundbck. and superciliata Wood. It hibernates in rabbit burrows, apparently as adult, which rarely occurs among phorids’.]
Note 11
Again added as subnitida by Schmitz & Beyer (1965a: 517).
Note 12
The name ’Phora giraudii Egger’ was fixed as a name in the Sciaridae by designation of a lectotype (see Menzel & Mohrig, 2000: 144). Thus the name is unavailable for the species known as Megaselia giraudii (Egger). Here the first available name, Megaselia rata (Collin in Wood, 1908) is introduced to the list.
Note 13
This species was transferred to Kerophora by Brown (1992) but Disney (1994: 280) argued that is should be considered premature because the male genitalia are very different from other Kerophora species.
Note 14
Material examined: LIMBURG: Herkenbosch (NP De Meinweg, N. of Lange Luier [205.7-353.1], 2 [m], 2 [f]: 20-31.viii.2012, leg. P. Thomas NHMM mt [NHMM ALC]), Maastricht (Natuurhistorisch Museum [1761-3172], indoors, 1 [m]: 1.viii.2013, leg. P.L.Th. Beuk [NHMM ALC]; 1 [m]: 6.vi.2014, leg. P.L.Th. Beuk [NHMM ALC]), Vlodrop (6 km E. of Herkenbosch: Crayhof[, N-rand broekbos bij Roode Beek] [208.75-351.35]: 1 [m]: 6-15.viii.2013, Leg. T. Lenders, Malaise trap [NHMM ALC]; 1 [m], 1 [f]: 4-15.x.2013, Leg. T. Lenders, Malaise trap [NHMM ALC]).
Note 15
Material examined: LIMBURG: Vlodrop (6 km E. of Herkenbosch: Crayhof[, N-rand broekbos bij Roode Beek] [208.75-351.35]: 1 [f]: 6-15.viii.2013, Leg. T. Lenders, Malaise trap [NHMM ALC]).
Note 16
The name pauciseta has page priority, but Schmitz (1929b: 200) as first reviser adopted the name dudai.
Note 17
Again added as vitrea by Schmitz (1949: 193).
Note 18
Disney & Chapman (2001) noted that females of inaequalis always seemed to be accompanied by males of vitrea. Their suspicion is that the females of inaequalis sensu Schmitz are in fact females of vitrea and that the true female of inaequalis was later described as M. chandleri Disney, 1987. Disney (pers. comm.) confirms that the material from Valkenburg illustrated by Schmitz is indeed identical to the female of vitrea.
Note 19
Schmitz (1955: 326) does not include the Netherlands in the distribution of stictica. Possibly this species should be removed from the Dutch list as he gives it as a boreo-montane species.
Note 20
This species was erroneously recorded from the Netherlands by Brown (1987: 285), who wrongly placed the type locality in the Netherlands. Schmitz (1920: 134) even specifically states 'Nicht in Limburg' ['Not in Limburg'].
Note 21
This species was recorded from the Netherlands in error by Borgmeier (1968: 122) and this record was repeated by Disney (1991: 164). Disney (pers. comm.) informed me of the error.
Note 22
Recorded as ’indistincta Schmitz in litt.’ by De Meijere (1928a: 29) and later deleted by Anonymous (1928: 309) and De Meijere (1935: 226), but without mentioning to which species the specimen(s) did belong.
Note 23
Schmitz (1933: 90) recorded this species as ? rupestris from the Netherlands, but did not include it as Dutch in his later lists.
Note 24
Recorded by De Meijere (1928a: 31) and later deleted by De Meijere (1935: 226), but without mentioning to which species the specimen did belong.
Note 25
Recorded as ’transversalis Schmitz in litt.’ by De Meijere (1928a: 31) and later deleted by Anonymous (1928: 309) and De Meijere (1935: 226), but without mentioning to which species the specimen(s) did belong.
Note 26
Schmitz (1943a: 158) clarified his previous interpretation of excisa, referring part of his material to dentata and the remaining part to excisa with octobris as synonym but without giving the Netherlands in the distribution of dentata. It was still listed by Disney (1991: 199).
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