14 1 125 ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES Check List 14 (1): 125–139 https://doi.org/10.15560/14.1.125 New records of phorid flies (Diptera, Phoridae) from Rio Grande do Sul, with five new records to Brazil Juliano L.P. Duarte,1, 2 Dayana B. Vaz,2 Rodrigo F. Krüger1, 2 1 Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Parasitologia, Campus Universitário Capão do Leão, s/nº, Caixa postal 354, 96010-900, Pelotas, RS, Brazil. 2 Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Laboratório de Ecologia de Parasitos e Vetores, Campus Universitário Capão do Leão, s/nº, Caixa postal 354, 96010-900, Pelotas, RS, Brazil. Corresponding author: Juliano L.P. Duarte,
[email protected] Abstract This compilation is the result of identification of material recently collected from Southern Brazil. Forty-one new records of Phoridae are recorded for the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the species Eibsfeldtphora cumsaltensis Disney 2009, Megaselia (M.) gracilipalpis Borgmeier 1969, Megaselia (Aphiochaeta) latimanus (Malloch, 1914), Melaloncha curvata Brown, 2005, and Trophodeinus vicinus (Borgmeier, 1963) are recorded for the first time in Brazil. Species are distributed in 18 genera and 3 subfamilies. The total known diversity of phorids in the state is augmented from 10 to 51 species. An updated distribution for Brazil is presented for each species. Key words Diversity; distribution; Neotropical region; Pampa biome; Scuttle flies. Academic editor: Fabio Laurindo da Silva | Received 9 October 2017 | Accepted 30 November 2017 | Published 12 January 2018 Citation: Duarte LP, Vaz DB, Krüger RF (2018) New records of phorid flies (Diptera, Phoridae) from Rio Grande do Sul, with five new records to Brazil.