Medetera micacea Loew, 1857

Material examined. Bohemia: Štítary (6442), 49°33′53″N 12°49′15″E, 410–430 m, dry hillside above river, 17.vi.2021, 2 ♁♁ (MCH) . Pocinovice (6544), 49°20′16″N 13°7′14″E, wide stony path on dry hillside, 470–500 m, 7.viii.2021, 5 ♁♁ 7 ♀♀ (MCH) .

Moravia: Havraníky (7162), 26.vii.1995, no collector, 1 ♁ (NMPC). Hodonín (7168), Pánov NM, 48°53′09″N 17°08′18″E, 200 m, sandy steppe, 9.vii.2022, 1 ♁ (MCH) .

Distribution. Widespread in Europe.

Status in CZ. Previously recorded from both Bohemia and Moravia: Aš (Kowarz 1884), Františkovy Lázně (Vimmer 1913), Lanžhot-Ranšpurk (Rozkošný & Vaňhara 1995; Olejníček 1998), and Mohelno (Rozkošný & Vaňhara 1997). There are no specimens in the historical collection of NMPC. The occurrence in Bohemia is confirmed herein after more than 100 years.

Ecology. Medetera micacea is a typical representative of European dolichopodid communities that occur in open, bare to sparsely vegetated habitat types on sandy soils, like coastal dunes and heathlands (Pollet & Grootaert 1996; Pollet et al. 2011).