Checklist of hover flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) «Podilski Tovtry» NNP

Abstract

The collection Syrphid Flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) is stored in the Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park, has more than 3,500 specimens and is replenished with new specimens every year. From 2019 to 2021 the collection is supplemented by 349 specimens. The annotated list of Syrphid Flies in the collection includes 183 species. It is based on the meeting of 2005-2013. Out of more than 3,500,000 specimens, 1,753 were collected on the territory of the Podilski Tovtry National Park. A feature of the national park is its location in one of the most densely populated regions of Ukraine. At the same time, the national park combines unique natural landscapes and anthropogenically transformed areas, which are mainly involved in agriculture. Collections of Syrphid Flies are carried out according to the standard method of entomological net in the main types of biotopes of the national nature park - forest habitats and edges, meadow-steppe habitats and shrub xerothermic areas, mesophytic meadows, cultivated biotopes. As of 2012, the list of Syrphid Flies of the Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park included 109 species from 28 genera. An updated Checklist of hover flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) for the «Podilski Tovtry» national nature park since 2012 is provided. At the end of 2021 the fauna of hover flies has 125 species from 41 genera. The most diverse in species composition are the genera Cheilosia – 29 species; Eristalis – 10 species; Eupeodes – 7 species; Chrysotoxum – 7 species, other genera include only up to 5 species. For the first time since 2012, 16 species have been identified for the Park: Brachypalpus laphriformis (Fallen, 1816); Ceriana conopsoides Linnaeus, 1758; Chalcosyrphus nemorum (Fabricius, 1805); Cheilosia urbana (Meigen), 1822; Cheilosia semifasciata Becker, 1894; Cheilosia vicina (Zetterstedt), 1849; Chrysotoxum verralli (Collin), 1940; Epistrophe ochrostoma (Zetterstedt), 1849; Meliscaeva cinctella (Zetterstedt), 1843; Merodon analis Meigen, 1822; Microdon analysis (Maquart, 1842); Pipiza lugubris Fabricius, 1775; Pipizella vidiata (Linnaeus), 1758; Platycheirus ambiguus (Fallen), 1817; Spilomyia saltuum (Fabricius), 1794; Temnostoma bombylans (Fabricius), 1805; Temnostoma meridionale Krivosheina & Mamayev, 1962 (RedBook, 2021); Volucella inflata (Fabricius, 1775); Xanthogramma stackelbergi Violovitsh, 1975. One of the identified species is listed in the RedBook Ukraine (2009/2021) – Temnostoma meridionale Krivosheina & Mamayev, 1962.