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New records of Rhinophoridae are given for Cyprus, Gibraltar, Malta and Tunisia. Previous knowledge of this family from these countries was more limited. Some faunistic comparisons are made between the Rhinophoridae occurring in these countries and the Balearics, peer-reviewed

The Rhinophoridae are a small family with about 150 named species worldwide. Seventeen species of this family are known from the Neotropical Region: 14 species of Bezzimyia Townsend; the monotypic genera Shannoniella Townsend and Trypetidomima Townsend; and the Palaearctic immigrant Melanophora roralis (Linnaeus) (Pape & Arnaud 2001; Pape in press). Undescribed species of Bezzimyia and Shannoniella as well as species that cannot be assigned to any of the currently described genera are known (P. Cerretti, pers. comm., & TP, unpubl.), and the Neotropical rhinophorid fauna is still superficially known.

Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) (Fig. 1) Rhinophora deceptoria Loew, 1847: 266. Type locality: Italy, Sicily, Syracuse (= Siracusa) [���Sicilien, bei Syrakus���]. Neotropical distribution: Argentina, Buenos Aires (Fig. 1). Palaearctic distribution: Andorra, Croatia, France (mainland, Corsica), Italy (mainland, Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain (mainland, Balearic Is), Switzerland. Herewith recorded from Morocco for the first time. Material studied. Argentina, Buenos Aires province: 1 ♂ Magdalena, Estancia San Isidro, 28.XII. 1998, Basilio leg. (FAUBA); 1 ♂ Magdalena, Estancia El Carretero, 20.X. 1999, Basilio leg. (FAUBA); 3 ♂ same data except 03.XI. 1999; 1 ♂ same data except 05.I. 2000; 2 ♂ same data except 23.III. 2000; 2 ♂ Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, S 34 �� 32 ' 47 '' W 58 �� 26 ' 24 '', XII. 2002, Mulieri leg. (ANLIS); 1 ♂, 1 �� Instituto Malbr��n, Buenos Aires, S 34 �� 38 ' 35 '' W 58 �� 23 ' 28 '', XII. 2002, Mulieri leg. (ANLIS); 1 ♂, 1 �� Burzaco, S 34 �� 50 ' 15 '' W 58 �� 23 ' 53 '', IX. 2001, Mulieri leg. (ANLIS); 2 ♂ same data except X. 2001; 1 ♂, 1 �� same data except III. 2002; 2 �� same data except III. 2003; 1 ♂, 1 �� Reserva Ecol��gica Costanera Sur, Buenos Aires, S 34 �� 37 ' W 58 �� 21 ', III. 2003, Mulieri leg. (ANLIS); 1 ♂, 1 �� Magdalena, X. 2005, Torretta leg. (ANLIS); 1 ♂ Chascom��s, Laguna La Tablilla, 1.I. 2007, Torretta leg (ANLIS); 4 ♂, 1 �� Campana, Reserva Natural Estricta Otamendi, S 34 �� 14 '03'' W 58 �� 53 ' 10 '', 26.XI. 2009, on flowers of Sapium haematospermum, Patitucci & Mulieri leg. (ANLIS); 1 ♂, 1 �� Necochea, Quequ��n, S 38 �� 31 ' 60 '' W 58 �� 42 '00'', I. 2010, Patitucci leg. (ANLIS); 24 ♂, 4 �� Facultad de Agronom��a, Buenos Aires, X. 2009 and XI. 2009 on flowers of Coriandrum sativum, D. Ganly & J.P. Torretta leg. (FAUBA). Numerous males and females in the collections of ZMUC, mostly from Italy, Malta and Spain, but also the following: Morocco, Rabat, For��t de Mamora, 1 ♂, 2 �� 25���26.IV. 1989, Zool. Mus. Copenh. Exp. [new country record]. Stevenia deceptoria appears to be relatively common in gardens, even in densely populated urban areas (such as Buenos Aires City), as well as in both rural and relatively undisturbed areas (such as Otamendi Reserve). Several species of terrestrial isopods have become widespread by human activities. In the New World, nearly 40 Palaearctic or synanthropically cosmopolitan woodlice species have been recorded (Leistikow & W��gele 1999; Schmalfuss 2003). The presence in Argentina of several potential woodlice hosts of Palaearctic origin (Halophiloscia couchii (Kinahan), Halophilosciidae; Porcellio scaber Latreille, P. lamellatus Budde-Lund and Porcellionides pruinosus (Brandt), Porcellionidae; Leistikow & W��gele 1999) has probably been instrumental for the establishment of Stevenia deceptoria. The introduction itself may be hypothesised to have taken place with infected woodlice, although no host records are so far known for Stevenia deceptoria (Herting 1961)., Published as part of Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo, Patitucci, Luciano Dami��n, Mariluis, Juan Carlos & Pape, Thomas, 2010, Long-distance introduction: first New World record of Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) and a key to the genera of New World Rhinophoridae (Diptera), pp. 66-68 in Zootaxa 2524 on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293704, {"references":["Loew, H. (1847) Einige neue Tachinarien. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 8, 259 - 276.","Leistikow, A. & Wagele, J. W. (1999) Checklist of the terrestrial isopods of the New World (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 16, 1 - 72.","Schmalfuss, H. (2003) World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie A, 654, 1 - 341.","Herting, B. (1961) Rhinophorinae. In: Lindner, E. (ed.), Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region, 9, 1 - 36."]}

Key to genera of New World Rhinophoridae 1 Wing vein M complete and reaching costa at wing margin (cell r 4 + 5 open).................................................................. 2 - Wing vein M not reaching wing margin; either straight, incomplete and ending freely in wing membrane; or with distal part curving forwards and fused to vein R 4 + 5 thereby closing cell r 4 + 5................................................................. 3, Published as part of Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo, Patitucci, Luciano Dami��n, Mariluis, Juan Carlos & Pape, Thomas, 2010, Long-distance introduction: first New World record of Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) and a key to the genera of New World Rhinophoridae (Diptera), pp. 66-68 in Zootaxa 2524 on page 67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293704

404. Paykullia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 270. ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Paykullia rubricornis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Paykullia riparia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Paykullia fuliginosa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. TYPE SPECIES: Paykullia rubricornis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Ocyptera maculata Fallén, 1815], by subsequent designation (Coquillett, 1910: 585). CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Herting (1993: 114)]. FAMILY: RHINOPHORIDAE., Published as part of Evenhuis, Neal L., O'Hara, James E., Pape, Thomas & Pont, Adrian C., 2010, 2373, pp. 1-265 in Zootaxa 2373 on page 128, {"references":["Robineau-Desvoidy, J. - B. (1830) Essai sur les myodaires. Memoires presentes par divers savans a l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathematiques et Physiques), (2) 2, 813 pp. [6 June] [Date recorded as received in Bibliographie de la France.]","Coquillett, D. W. (1910) The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 37, 499 - 647. [4 August]"]}

519. Talmonia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863a: 704. ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Talmonia tibialis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863. TYPE SPECIES: Talmonia tibialis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 [= Tachina rubricosa Meigen, 1824], by original designation. CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Tricogena Rondani, 1856 [teste Herting (1993: 110)]. FAMILY: RHINOPHORIDAE., Published as part of Evenhuis, Neal L., O'Hara, James E., Pape, Thomas & Pont, Adrian C., 2010, 2373, pp. 1-265 in Zootaxa 2373 on page 156, {"references":["Robineau-Desvoidy, J. - B. (1863 a) Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris. Oeuvre posthume du D r Robineau-Desvoidy publiee par les soins de sa famille, sous la direction de M. H. Monceaux. Tome premier. Masson et fils, Paris, Wagner, Leipzig, and Williams & Norgate, London. xvi + 1143 pp. [11 January] [Announced as published by Monceaux at the 11 January meeting of the Societe.]","Meigen, J. W. (1824) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vierter Theil. Schultz-Wundermann, Hamm. xii + 428 pp. [after 24 September] [Date of preface.]","Rondani, C. (1856) Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol: I. Genera Italica ordinis dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata. A. Stoccih, Parmae [= Parma]. 226 + [2] pp. [10 September] [Dated from advertisement from publisher in Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung.]"]}

469. Rhinophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 258. ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Rhinophora nigripennis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Rhinophora gagatea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Rhinophora metallica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Rhinophora tessellata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Rhinophora hottentota Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Rhinophora pusilla Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. TYPE SPECIES: Rhinophora gagatea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, by subsequent designation (Townsend, 1916: 8). CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Herting (1993: 114)]. FAMILY: RHINOPHORIDAE. REMARKS: An earlier type-species designation by Robineau-Desvoidy (1863b: 5) of “ Rhinophora gagatina, Meig. ” [= Tachina gagatina Meigen, 1824] is invalid because it was not an originally included species and more than one originally included species were listed in synonymy with it. Herting (1993: 117) placed Tachina gagatina Meigen, 1824 in his list of “ Nomina dubia in Rhinophoridae ”., Published as part of Evenhuis, Neal L., O'Hara, James E., Pape, Thomas & Pont, Adrian C., 2010, 2373, pp. 1-265 in Zootaxa 2373 on page 144, {"references":["Robineau-Desvoidy, J. - B. (1830) Essai sur les myodaires. Memoires presentes par divers savans a l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathematiques et Physiques), (2) 2, 813 pp. [6 June] [Date recorded as received in Bibliographie de la France.]","Townsend, C. H. T. (1916) Designations of muscoid genotypes, with new genera and species. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 4, 4 - 12. [31 March]","Robineau-Desvoidy, J. - B. (1863 b) Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris. Oeuvre posthume du D r Robineau-Desvoidy publiee par les soins de sa famille, sous la direction de M. H. Monceaux. Tome second. Masson et fils, Paris, Wagner, Leipzig, and Williams & Norgate, London. 920 pp. [11 January] [Announced as published by Monceaux at the 11 January meeting of the Societe.]","Meigen, J. W. (1824) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vierter Theil. Schultz-Wundermann, Hamm. xii + 428 pp. [after 24 September] [Date of preface.]"]}

Stevenia etrusca sp. nov. Type material. Holotype ��: ITALY ��� Toscana (Grosseto prov.) / Scarlino, Cala di Terra Rossa [42 �� 52 ' 25.13 ''N 10 �� 46 ' 28.42 ''E] / 02.VI. 2004 (hand net) / P. Cerretti, D. Birtele, M. Tisato, D. Whitmore leg. [MZUR]. Paratypes: 3 ����, same data as holotype [CNBF, CPC]. Etymology. From the Latin ��� Etruscus, Etrusca, Etruscum ��� meaning Etruscan, the ancient people of Etruria (= Tyrrhēnia) an area that covered part of what now are Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria and Latium, and containing the type locality. The name should be treated as a Latin adjective. Diagnosis. Male frons relatively broad and with proclinate orbital setae (Fig. 11); three katepisternal setae; abdomen black with a very narrow brownish rim on posterior margin of tergites 1 + 2 and 3 in males (Figs. 12, 13); syntergite 1 + 2 with a pair of median marginal and median discal setae (Fig. 13). Abdominal tergites 1 + 2���4 with transverse bands of microtrichosity on anterior 1 / 2���5 / 6, interrupted medio-dorsally by a broad longitudinal black stripe; tergite 5 microtrichose on anterior 1 / 3 ��� 1 / 2 (Fig. 12). Description [character states shared by S. etrusca and S. palermitana are omitted in the following description] Male: Length: 10.4 mm. Colour. Head black with grey microtrichosity; area between gena and parafacial reddish-yellow; scape and pedicel black or dark brown, postpedicel black; palpus yellowish to dark-brown. Thorax and legs black; scutum with three broad longitudinal dark vittae. Upper and lower calypters whitish. Wing hyaline or slightly infuscate; tegula black, basicosta yellow, veins light brown to dark brown. Abdomen (Figs. 12, 13) black, brownish at most on posterior rim of tergites 2 and 3; tergites 2���4 with transverse bands of white microtrichosity on anterior 1 / 2���5 / 6, interrupted medio-dorsally by a broad longitudinal black stripe; tergite 5 microtrichose on anterior 1 / 3 ��� 1 / 2. Epandrium black. Sternite 5 black. Head (Figs. 10, 11). Postpedicel about 1.3 times as long as pedicel. Frons at its narrowest point 0.77 times as wide as an eye in dorsal view. Ocellar setae short and weak (much shorter than the posterior frontal setae). Lateral vertical setae not differentiated from the postocular setae. One reclinate and 1 lateroclinate upper orbital setae (Figs. 10, 11); 1 proclinate orbital seta (Figs. 10, 11). Frontal setae descending to the level of proximal third of pedicel or slightly lower. Fronto-orbital plate with a row of short and stout proclinate setulae. Lower half of parafacial with a row of 5���7 long and stout medioclinate setae and several short proclinate setulae (Fig. 10). Parafacial at its narrowest point about as wide as the postpedicel. Lower facial margin slightly visible in lateral view. Vibrissa well developed and differentiated from sub-vibrissal setae. Gena in profile 0.47 times the vertical height of eye (height measured in the same vertical plane as height of head). Prementum about 3.5 times as long as wide. Thorax. Three to 4 katepisternal setae. Scutellum with 3 pairs (basal, lateral and apical) of marginal setae; basal setae very short and weak, less than 1 / 2 as long as laterals; lateral setae longer than the crossed apicals. Legs. Fore leg: tibia with 3 anterodorsal setae. ��� Mid leg: tibia with 3���4 anterodorsal setae, 3���4 posterodorsal setae, usually 1 posterior seta; 1 ventral seta. ��� Hind leg: tibia with 3���4 long, robust anterodorsal and posterodorsal setae; with 3 dorsal preapical setae. Abdomen (Figs 12, 13). Syntergite 1 + 2 with 1 pair of median marginal and median discal setae and one or more lateral marginals. Tergite 3 with 1���2 pairs of median marginal and 1 pair of median discal setae. Tergite 4 with a row of marginal setae, 1���5 medio-discal setae. Tergite 5 with rows of marginal and discal setae. Terminalia. Epandrial complex, sternite 5 and aedeagus very similar to those of S. palermitana, the only remarkable difference being the more strongly sclerotized dorsal sclerite of distiphallus. Female, differs from male as follows: Length: 8.7���9.7 mm. Colour. Abdomen darker and with basal band of microtrichosity much weaker and sometimes indistinct and without a posterior rim. Head. Frons wider, at its narrowest point 0.86���0.92 times as wide as an eye in dorsal view. Fronto-orbital plate with 1���2 proclinate orbital setae (the posterior one usually lateroclinate). Parafacial (in lateral view) at its narrowest point 1.26���1.50 times as wide as the postpedicel. Gena in profile 0.41���0.51 times the vertical height of eye. Abdomen. Tergite 5 very short and triangular. Distribution. Palaearctic ��� mainland Italy. Biology. Unknown., Published as part of Cerretti, Pierfilippo & Pape, Thomas, 2007, Two new species of European Stevenia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Rhinophoridae) and a key to the Palaearctic species, pp. 31-41 in Zootaxa 1624 on pages 35-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273944

Stevenia palermitana sp. nov. Type material. Holotype ��: ITALY ��� Sicily (Palermo prov.) / Bosco della Ficuzza 600���1000 m / Torretta Torre / hand net on low vegetation / 18.V. 2004 / P. Cerretti, D. Birtele, G. Nardi, D. Whitmore leg. [MZUR]. Paratypes: ITALY ��� Sicily (Palermo prov.): 2 ���� 1 ��, same data as holotype [ZMUC]; 1 �� 1 ��, Bosco della Ficuzza 600���1000 m / Torretta Torre / hand net on low vegetation / 18.V. 2004 / P. Cerretti, D. Birtele, G. Nardi, D. Whitmore leg. [CPC, ZMUC]; 2 ���� Bosco della Ficuzza 600���1000 m / Torretta Torre / hand net on low vegetation / 05.V. 2004, [same collectors] [CPC]; 1 �� 2 ����, Bosco della Ficuzza 600���1000 m / (on Ferula communis) [Apiaceae] / 14.V. 2004, [same collectors] [CPC, ZMUC]; 1 ��, Bosco della Ficuzza 600���1000 m / (on Elaeoselinum asclepium) [Apiaceae] / 29.VII. 2003 (hand net) / P. Cerretti, M. Tisato leg. [CPC]; 1 ��, Bosco della Ficuzza 600���1000 m / Laghetti Coda di Riccio / N 37.52329 E 13.24032 / 19.V. 2004 (hand net), [same collectors] [CPC]; 5 ���� 7 ����, Bosco della Ficuzza 885 m / Pulpito del Re / N 37.53174 E 13.23768 / (on Ferula communis) / 15.V. 2004, [same collectors] [CNBF, CPC]; 1 ��, Madonie ��� Piano Zucchi 1238 m, 21.V. 2004, [same collectors] [ZMUC]. Etymology. The name refers to the province of the type locality (Palermo) and should be treated as a Latin adjective. Diagnosis. Male with narrow frons and without proclinate orbital setae. Body entirely black except for the reddish or orangish posterior 1 / 2 ��� 1 / 4 of abdominal tergite 5; all abdominal tergites with dense microtrichosity. Description. Male (measurements in square brackets refer to the holotype): Length: 6.3���7.7 mm. Colour. Head black with grey microtrichosity; area between gena and parafacial reddish; scape and pedicel black or dark brown, postpedicel black; palpus brown to dark-brown, sometimes yellowish apically. Thorax and legs black; presutural area with three broad longitudinal dark vittae. Upper and lower calypters whitish. Wing hyaline or slightly infuscate; tegula black, basicosta yellow, veins black or dark brown. Abdomen (Fig. 3) mainly black except for posterior 1 / 2 ��� 1 / 4 of tergite 5, which is red; tergites 2���4 each with a transverse band of white microtrichosity on anterior 1 / 2���3 / 4, interrupted medio-dorsally by a broad, longitudinal black stripe; tergite 5 with a non-interrupted band of microtrichosity on anterior 1 / 3 ��� 1 / 2. Epandrium black. Sternite 5 mainly yellow. Head (Figs. 1, 2). Eye bare. Arista, thickened on about basal 1 / 5, covered with hairs at most as long as its basal diameter. First and second aristomere not longer than wide. Postpedicel about 0.9 ���[1.2] times as long as pedicel. Frons at its narrowest point 0.56 ���[0.69] times as wide as an eye in dorsal view. Ocellar setae well developed (usually shorter than the posterior frontal setae), proclinate. Medial (= inner) vertical setae strong, reclinate, sub-parallel to each other. Lateral (= outer) vertical setae not differentiated from the postocular setae. One or 2 reclinate upper orbital setae; no proclinate orbital setae. Eight to 9 frontal setae descending to the level of the middle of pedicel or slightly lower. Fronto-orbital plate with scattered, short, proclinate setulae. Parafacial with a row of 5���7 long and stout medioclinate setae on lower 3 / 4 ��� 4 / 5, and several short proclinate setulae (Figs 1, 2). Parafacial at its narrowest point 1.15 ���[1.38] times as wide as the postpedicel. Face and lower facial margin not visible in lateral view. Vibrissa usually well developed (sometimes not differentiated from sub-vibrissal setae), arising at level of lower facial margin. Facial ridge concave with robust setulae on lower 1 / 6 ��� 1 / 5. Genal dilation well developed. Gena in profile about 0.28 ���[0.40] times the vertical height of eye (height measured in the same vertical plane as height of head). Postocular setae relatively short, slightly bent forwards. Occiput convex, only with black setulae behind the postocular row. Prementum about 2.0��� 2.5 times as long as wide. Palpus sub-cylindrical with some setulae ventrally, dorsally and apically. Thorax. Prosternum and proepisternum bare. Postpronotum with 4 (rarely 5) setae; the three strongest form a triangle. Scutum with 1���2 + 1���2 acrostichal, 2���3 + 3 dorsocentral, 0���1 + 2���3 intraalar, 2 posthumeral, 1 strong presutural, 2 notopleural, and 3 supraalar setae (first postsutural supraalar seta (= prealar) shorter than notopleural setae), postalar callus with 2 setae. Anatergite with a patch of setulae just below the base of lower calypter. Three katepisternal setae. One anepimeral seta well differentiated from adjacent setulae. Katepimeron bare. Scutellum with 3 pairs (basal, lateral and apical) of marginal setae; basal setae short, about 2 / 3 ��� 3 / 4 as long as laterals; lateral setae slightly longer than the crossed apicals. A pair of discal scutellar setae. Postmetacoxal area membranous. Legs. Fore leg: Coxa with bare medial surface; tibia with 3���4 anterodorsal setae, without posterodorsal setae, preapical anterodorsal setae shorter than preapical dorsal one (preapical posterodorsal seta not differentiated); claws longer than tarsomere 5. ��� Mid leg: tibia with 3���4 anterodorsal setae, 3���6 posterodorsal setae, usually 1 posterior seta; ventral seta on mid tibia present or absent. ��� Hind leg: Posterior coxal margin bare; tibia with several anterodorsal and posterodorsal setae of irregular length and thickness, with 3 dorsal preapical setae. Wing (Fig. 4). Costal spine very long, about 1.5 ���2.0 times as long as crossvein r-m. Second costal portion (CS 2) with short setulae ventrally. Base of R 4 + 5 with 1���4 setulae. Section of M between crossveins r-m and dmcu longer than the section between dm-cu and bend of M. Wing cell r 4 + 5 distinctly petiolate, petiole 0.81���1.12 times as long as post-angular portion of M. Abdomen. Middorsal depression on abdominal syntergite 1 + 2 confined to anterior 1 / 3 of that segment. Syntergite 1 + 2 with 1 pair of median marginal setae and one or more lateral marginals. Tergite 3 with a pair of median marginal and usually 1 pair of median discal setae (rarely absent). Tergite 4 with a row of marginal setae, 1���5 medio-discal setae. Tergite 5 with rows of marginal and discal setae. Terminalia (Figs. 5���8). Hind margin of sternite 5 with a deep cleft; lateral lobe large; medio-apical margin of lateral lobe with dense microtrichia (Fig. 5). Tergite 6 weakly sclerotized, divided into two hemitergites, joining segment 7 + 8 by a membrane. Sternite 6 asymmetrical, articulated to segment 7 + 8 on its left side and attached to it by a large membrane on its right side. Epandrium short and convex. Cerci (Figs. 7, 8) shorter than surstylus, with a dorso-medial suture, apically separated from each other. Surstylus (Figs 7, 8) pointed, long and curved forward in profile. Ejaculatory sclerite large and fan-shaped. Medial plate of hypandrium sub-rectangular in dorsal view; hypandrial arms long and sub-parallel (not encircling the base of the phallus). Bacilliform sclerites long. Pregonite sub-triangular. Postgonite long, narrow and hook-like with one long setula at mid-length. Epiphallus (Fig. 7) straight, well developed and weakly sclerotized. Distiphallus joining basiphallus by a dorsal sclerite and by a ventro-lateral membrane; lateroventral surface of distiphallus strongly sclerotized and covered with scale-like spinules (Fig. 6). Female, differs from male as follows: Length: 5.5���6.7 mm. Colour. Abdomen darker with basal band of microtrichosity much weaker and sometimes indistinct. Head. Frons slightly wider, at its narrowest point 0.79���0.95 times as wide as an eye in dorsal view. Fronto-orbital plate with 1���2 proclinate orbital setae. Parafacial (in lateral view) at its narrowest point 0.9���1.3 times as wide as the postpedicel. Gena in profile 0.3���0.4 times the vertical height of eye. Abdomen. Tergite 5 very short and triangular. Distribution. Palaearctic ��� Sicily [Italy]. Biology. Unknown., Published as part of Cerretti, Pierfilippo & Pape, Thomas, 2007, Two new species of European Stevenia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Rhinophoridae) and a key to the Palaearctic species, pp. 31-41 in Zootaxa 1624 on pages 32-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273944

Stevenia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Stevenia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 220 [original description]. Type species: Stevenia tomentosa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 220 [= Tachina atramentaria Meigen, 1824: 291], by designation of Desmarest in d���Orbigny (1848: 32) [see Evenhuis & Thompson 1990]. References. Belanovsky (1951) [Ukrainian species]; Herting (1961) [Palaearctic revision]; Crosskey (1977) [redescription, biogeography, bionomics, taxonomy]; Kugler (1978) [Israelian species]; B��ez (1979 a) [Canary Islands species]; Tschorsnig (1985) [male terminalia, taxonomic notes]; Pape (1986) [phylogenetic position]; Pape (1989) [revision of Rondani types]; Herting (1993) [Palaearctic catalogue]; Pape (1998) [key to Palaearctic genera]; Verves (2005) [Ukrainian species]., Published as part of Cerretti, Pierfilippo & Pape, Thomas, 2007, Two new species of European Stevenia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Rhinophoridae) and a key to the Palaearctic species, pp. 31-41 in Zootaxa 1624 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273944, {"references":["Robineau-Desvoidy, J. B. (1830) Essai sur les Myodaires. Memoires presentes par divers Savants a l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France, 2, Paris, 1 - 813.","Meigen, J. W. (1824) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten 4, Hamm, xii + 428 pp.","Evenhuis, N. L. & Thompson, F. C. (1990) Type designations of genus-group names of Diptera given in d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 30, 226 - 258.","Belanovsky, J. D. (1951) Takhiny Ukrainskoi SSR, Vol. 1. Kiev, 191 pp.","Herting, B. (1961) 64 e. Rhinophorinae. In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, 216. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, pp 1 - 36.","Crosskey, R. W. (1977) A review of the Rhinophoridae (Diptera) and a revision of the Afrotropical species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology series, 36 (1), 1 - 66.","Kugler, J. (1978) The Rhinophoridae (Diptera) of Israel. Israel Journal of Entomology, 12, 65 - 106.","Baez, M. (1979 a) Stevenia fernandezi n. sp. (Dipt. Rhinophoridae) de las Islas Canarias. Vieraea, 8, 23 - 26.","Tschorsnig, H. - P. (1985) Die Struktur des mannlichen Postabdomens der Rhinophoridae (Diptera). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde (A), 375, 1 - 18.","Pape, T. (1986) A phylogenetic analysis of the woodlouse-flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 129, 15 - 34.","Pape, T. (1989) A revision of the Rhinophoridae (Diptera) described by C. Rondani. Entomologica scandinavica, 19, 355 - 358.","Herting, B. (1993) Family Rhinophoridae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol. 13, Anthomyiidae - Tachinidae. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, pp. 102 - 117.","Pape, T. (1998) 3.53. Family Rhinophoridae. In: Papp, L. & Darvas, B. (Eds.), Contribution to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera (with special reference to flies of economic importance). Vol. 3. Higher Brachycera. Science Herald, Budapest, pp. 679 - 689.","Verves, Yu. G. 2005. A checklist of the Ukrainian Rhinophoridae (Diptera). Studia dipterologica, 11, 609 - 613."]}

Faunistic review of the Dutch woodlouse-flies (Diptera: Rhinophoridae) The faunistics of the seven Dutch species of Rhinophoridae are discussed. Of each species a short diagnosis , its distribution in the Netherlands, habitat and phenology are given. The larvae of all Rhinophoridae are endoparasites on woodlice (Isopoda: Oniscidae). In a separate paper information on associations with hosts and other ecological information will be discussed.

The Western Palaearctic genus Helicobosca Bezzi, 1906 is described in detail and its systematic position discussed. The monophyly of the calyptrate families Tachinidae, Rhinophoridae, Sarcophagidae and Calliphoridae is reviewed. Helicobosca is removed from its current position within the subfamily Paramacronychiinae of the Sarcophagidae and transferred to the Calliphoridae, where a new subfamily Helicoboscinae Verves, 1980, stat.n., is erected for its reception. The third stage larva of H. palpalis (Robineau-Desvoidy) is described for the first time.

The Rhinophoridae described by Camillo Rondani are revised and Iectotypes are designated where necessary. A synopsis listing all names treated is provided.

Melanophora roralis (L.), a rhinophorid fly, was reared from naturally infected sowbugs, Porcellionides pruinosus (Brandt) and Porcellio scaber Latreille, collected at several locations in the eastern United States, the majority from P. scaber. Aspects of the host-parasite interaction were studied in a large sample ofisopods from North Carolina. The flies were sexually dimorphic for body size, and varied in size as a function of individual host size. Differences between the fly sexes were due to their differential utilization of a common range of host sizes rather than to the use of different host sizes; this result was directly confirmed with laboratory rearings of full sibships. Two potential indicators of individual fitness, adult longevity, and female fecundity, were direct functions of parasite, and hence host, size. The size dimorphism in Melanophora roralis, and physiological features associated with it, may reflect adaptations in this parasite for population persistence at low population densities. The Rhinophoridae are dipteran flies largely, or exclusively, specialized as larval parasites of terrestrial isopod crustaceans (Crosskey, 1977). The family is small, with about 100 species currently recognized, and has had a long and confused history of affiliation with both the Calliphoridae and the Tachinidae (for review see Crosskey, 1977; Kugler, 1978). Despite the generalizations often made about rhinophorid natural history, relatively little is known.about these flies. Host records for most species are lacking, and very little information has been published on host-parasite interactions since Thompson's (1934) monograph on the British species. Only one rhinophorid, Melanophora roralis (L.), is widespread in North America. The species ranges from Michigan to Kansas and from New Hampshire to Florida and Louisiana (Sabrosky and Araud, 1965). Although this fly has been frequently collected, it is rarely very abundant (Brues, 1903). M. roralis is known to be a parasite of Porcellio scaber Latreille (Thompson, 1934) and Oniscus asellus L. (Jones, 1948), but details of the host-parasite interaction have received little attention due to the sporadic and rare occurrence of adequate samples. We have occasionally reared M. roralis from isopods collected for other experimental purposes. One of these collections, from North Carolina, had an incidence of parasitism high enough to prompt the present study.

Baniassa paucipila sp.n. is described from southern Kurdistan, Iraq and compared with the only other known species of the genus.

Two new species of Stevenia are described from Europe: Stevenia etrusca sp. nov. (Italian mainland: Toscana) and S. palermitana sp. nov. (Italy: Sicily, Palermo prov.). A key to all known Palaearctic species of the genus is provided.