ACTA ENTOMOLOGICA MUSEI NATIONALIS PRAGAE Published 30.vi.2011 Volume 51(1), pp. 299–347 ISSN 0374-1036 Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the vicinity of the Kerkini Lake with descriptions of eight new species from Greece Miloš ČERNÝ CZ-763 63 Halenkovice 1, Czech Republic; e-mail:
[email protected] Abstract. A report on the results of the Agromyzidae fauna of the Greek Nature Reserve associated with Kerkini Lake, known as Wetland Kerkini, is presented. During the survey, 176 species of mining fl ies of 18 genera were recorded here, including eight species new to science and 127 species representing new records for Greece. Eight new species of Agromyzidae from Greece are described and illustrated: Agromyza elladanensis sp. nov., Agromyza macedonica sp. nov., Melanagromyza kerkinica sp. nov., Ophiomyia krousianica sp. nov., Ophiomyia sigmoidea sp. nov., Ophiomyia tschirnhausi sp. nov., Amauromyza (Amauromyza) rameli sp. nov. and Phytobia graeca sp. nov. Key words. Diptera, Agromyzidae, taxonomy, faunistics, new species, new records, Greece, Macedonia, Kerkini Introduction The Greek fauna of agromyzids is only insuffi ciently investigated and thus also relevant literary sources on the distribution of individual species are comparatively rare. Several scattered data include only a few records documenting their occurrence in Greece (BRULLÉ 1832a,b, HENDEL 1920; 1931–1936; PAPP 1984; SPENCER 1966, 1973). Altogether 27 species (17 species from Greek mainland, 12 from Crete, 11 from Dodecanese Islands, 3 from Cyc- lades Islands and 1 species from North Aegean Islands) are recorded in the Fauna Europaea (MARTINEZ 2010). A limited new material was worked out only recently and some new faunistic data, contributing to the knowledge of the East-Mediterranean area, were published recently (ANAGNOU-VERONIKI et al.