PSEUDOPOMYZIDAE

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 : 163-165

PSEUDOPOMYZIDAE – B. MERZ

This small family is known from the Oriental Region according to the CDO (VOCKEROTH 1977) by one species from the Philippines, Tenuia nigripes MALLOCH, 1926 . Recently, Macalpinella brevifacies L. PAPP, 2005 was described from Taiwan. So far, the family has been unknown from Thailand. One female of an apparently undescribed species fitting the diagnosis of MCALPINE (1994) and MCALPINE & SHATALKIN (1998) of Pseudopomyza STROBL with a prominent facial tubercle was found at the following locality:

N-Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, Chiang Mai (near Zoological Garden), 24.X.2000, leg. B. MERZ & P. SCHWENDINGER ( MHNG). This female was swept from a broad leaf at the edge of a dry forest during a rainy day .