ISSN 1211-3026 Čas. Slez. Muz. Opava (A), 62: 155-172, 2013 DOI: 10.2478/cszma-2013-0017

The fauna of Acalyptrate families Trixoscelididae, Chyromyidae and Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) in the Gemer area (Central Slovakia): supplement 2

Jindřich Roháček

The fauna of Acalyptrate families Trixoscelididae, Chyromyidae and Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) in the Gemer area (Central Slovakia): supplement 2. – Čas. Slez. Muz. Opava (A), 62: 155-172, 2013.

Abstract: In the second supplement to the fauna of the Diptera Acalyptrata of the Gemer area (Slovakia) new records from the Muránska planina National Park are given. Based on the material examined, records of 2 species of Trixoscelididae, 1 species of Chyromyidae and 68 species of Sphaeroceridae are presented, with comments about their general distribution, biology, faunistic and/or nature conservation importance. Chyromya miladae Andersson, 1976 (Chyromyidae) and six species of Sphaeroceridae, viz. Borborillus uncinatus (Duda, 1923), B. vitripennis (Meigen, 1830), Norrbomia hispanica (Duda, 1923), N. somogyii (Papp, 1973), Leptocera oldenbergi (Duda, 1918) and Minilimosina (Svarciella) guestphalica (Duda, 1918), are new additions to the fauna of the Gemer area; 31 other species of Sphaeroceridae are added to the fauna of the Muránska planina NP. All these seven faunal additions belong to significant species in the area due to their association with threatened habitats, general rarity or because occurring on new limits of areas of their distribution.

Keywords: Diptera, Trixoscelididae, Chyromyidae, Sphaeroceridae, faunistics, nature conservation, Slovakia, Gemer

Introduction

Of the three families treated in this further contribution to the dipterous fauna of the Gemer area only one, the Sphaeroceridae, has been dealt with recently by Roháček (2011), while the synopsis of the Trixoscelididae and Chyromyidae of this territory is presented here for the first time. Because the additional field research performed in the Muránska planina National Park in 2012-2013 revealed a number species formerly (for history of research of Sphaeroceridae in the region see Roháček 2011) unrecorded, not only in the latter national park but also the whole of the Gemer area, the faunal results are presented below to update the inventory of the biodiversity of these groups in the regions under study. While the species richness of Sphaeroceridae in the entire Gemer territory was already considered to be relatively high by Roháček (2011), the biodiversity of this family in the Muránska planina NP has hitherto not been satisfactorily studied. The same is also true for Trixoscelididae and Chyromyidae which were, however, under investigated not only in the three national parks forming the Gemer area but also in the whole of Slovakia. Consequently, the results presented here form not only a supplement to the study by Roháček (2011) but also give information about two additional families previously not or only partly studied in this part of Slovakia. This additional study on the three Heleomyzoid families belongs to a series of papers devoted to Diptera of the Gemer area (cf. Ševčík & Kurina 2011a,b; Roháček & Ševčík 2011; Roháček 2011, 2012b,c, 2013; Černý 2012; Ševčík 2011, 2012; Rudzinski & Ševčík 2012).

Material and methods

The account of species of Trixoscelididae, Chyromyidae and Sphaeroceridae recorded below from the Gemer area is exclusively based on material obtained during fieldwork performed in the Muránska planina NP in 2012-2013 by J. Roháček, J. Ševčík, D. Kaspřák and M. Mantič. In 2012-2013 five Malaise traps and one emergence trap were used to collect flies apart from the general and individual collecting by means of sweeping and sifting methods. The precise situations of the traps in the Muránska planina NP are given below in „Study area“. All specimens were identified by the author and are deposited in SMOC = Slezské zemské muzeum, Opava, Czech Republic. The nomenclature used here follows the Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, electronic version 2 (Jedlička et al. 2009), unless other sources are given. Species significant from the

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biogeographical, ecological or nature conservation point of view are marked by “*”. Other abbreviations used in text: ET = emergence trap, MT = Malaise trap. The species from the families listed below were identified using the keys and other determination tools cited in the introductory texts to these families in the above checklist (Jedlička et al. 2009) unless mentioned otherwise. Each newly recorded species is provided with information about general distribution, biology, faunistic and/or nature conservation importance; in taxa already known from the study area these comments can be found in Roháček (2011).

Study area

The Gemer area is here understood as the territory of three national parks in central Slovakia – Muránska planina National Park (= NP), Slovenský raj NP and Slovenský kras NP. All these national parks represent well- preserved karst areas with a rich mosaic of ecosystems, where both montane and thermophilous species of plants and animals, including several endemics, occur. In the Muránska planina NP the following traps were operated: in 2012 two Malaise traps, one at the top plateau of Šiance res. (48°46'11''N, 20°04'14''E, 1000 m), the other near Muránska Lehota, in the Lehotský potok valley (48°42'58''N, 20°00'16''E, 455 m).In 2013 three Malaise traps and one emergence trap: a Malaise trap and an emergence trap in the Hrdzavá dolina res. (48°44'52''N, 20°01'04''E, 540 m), another Malaise trap on the top plateau of the Poľudnica res. (48°45'48''N, 20°01'55''E, 920 m), and the remaining Malaise trap in the upper part of the Čertova dolina res. (48°44'20''N, 19°51'27''E, 715 m).

Synopsis of species

TRIXOSCELIDIDAE

This small acalyptrate group is here treated as a family following the Fauna Europaea (Woźnica 2011a) although it has been often considered a mere tribe or subfamily of the Heleomyzidae. Altogether 26 species belonging to the sole European genus Trixoscelis Rondani, 1856 have been recorded in Europe and adjacent areas, as included in the Fauna Europaea (Woźnica 2011a) but only five of them are known from Slovakia (Roháček 2009a, Woźnica 2011b). Two species of Trixoscelis are known from the Gemer area, one from the Slovenský kras NP (Martinek 1986), the other from the Muránska planina NP (Woźnica 2011b). Trixoscelis species probably have saprophagous larvae; two species are known to develop in blackbird's nests. Most Trixoscelis species are distinctly thermophilous with adults occuring in warm insolated sites, particularly sandy, steppe or forest steppe habitats. The nomenclature used here follows that in the Fauna Europaea (Woźnica 2011a).

*Trixoscelis canescens (Loew, 1865) (Fig. 1) Literature: see Woźnica (2011b: Muránska planina NP: Voniaca). Material: Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, MT, 9.viii.-18.ix.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: A generally rare European species, hitherto recorded from Spain, Andorra, ?Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic (Moravia), Slovakia, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania and NW part of European Russia species (Woźnica 2008, 2011a). The species has only recently been recorded from Slovakia (Wożnica 2011b), based on a single female swept in the Muránska planina NP. The second Slovak record (see above) also originates from this area. Based on records from the Italian Alps (Woźnica 2008) T. canescens seems to occur from submontane to subalpine situations and, consequently, the records from higher altitudes in the Muránska planina NP fall within this range. The species differs in this respect from most other members of the genus Trixoscelis (see above) which are markedly thermophilous.

Trixoscelis frontalis (Fallén, 1823) Literature: see Martinek (1986: Zádiel). Remarks: Although this widespread W. Palaearctic species is the most common representative of Trixoscelis in Central Europe and also Slovakia, there are only infrequent records from the latter country including the single one from the Gemer area originating from the Slovenský kras (Martinek 1986).

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Figs 1-3: Representatives of Trixoscelididae and Chyromyidae in the Muránska planina NP and their habitats. 1 – Trixoscelis canescens (Loew) (Trixoscelididae), female, dorsolaterally; 2 – Chyromya miladae Andersson, female, laterally; 3 – forest margin on southern limestone slope of the Poľudnica Mt., habitat of both these species. Photo by J. Roháček.

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CHYROMYIDAE

This is another family related to Heleomyzidae. A total of 59 species have been recorded in Europe and adjacent island areas (Ebejer 2004), but some additional species have since been added from this region (Ebejer 2005; Gibbs 2007); only five species are known from Slovakia (Roháček 2009b). The species from the latter country have been treated faunistically by Ebejer & Roháček (1995) but no species have hitherto been recorded from the Gemer territory. The nomenclature adopted here follows that in the Fauna Europaea (Ebejer 2004). Chyromyidae have saprophagous larvae, which have been found in the nests of birds and bat guano; a few species have been reared from wood debris. The majority of species are thermophilous. Adults of many species (particularly representatives of the genera Aphaniosoma and Gymnochiromyia) inhabit semi-arid habitats and saltmarshes and occur on flowering vegetation. Some Chyromya and Gymnochiromyia species seem to be associated with warm deciduous forests.

* Chyromya miladae Andersson, 1976 (Fig. 2) Material: Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, sweeping undergrowth of mixed forest, 18.ix.2013, 1♀, J. Roháček leg.; same locality, MT, 9.viii.-18.ix.2013, 2♀, 18.ix.-4.x.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: A rare European species, described from southern Moravia (Czech Republic) and hitherto only reported from Great Britain, Italy: Sicily, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Slovakia (Ebejer 2004). The only Slovak record (Roháček 1987) originated from the vicinity of Bratislava (Častá-Lindavský les). The above records from Muránska planina NP represent a new easternmost distribution limit of the species. Ch. miladae is distinctly thermophilous and associated with warm (mainly oak) forests and forest-steppe habitats (Roháček 1987; Ebejer 2005); it is considered to be a vulnerable (VU) species in the Czech Republic (Roháček 2005a). It was found at a surprisingly high altitude (960 m) in the Muránska planina NP but note that the site on the Poľudnica Mt. lies on a warm south-oriented limestone outlier. All four captured females have a very distinct pattern on the apical tarsomeres (cf. Gibbs 2007: Fig. 3), which is also visible on photographed specimen (Fig. X).

SPHAEROCERIDAE

The family Sphaeroceridae belongs to the best studied families of Diptera in the Gemer area. The regional fauna of the group has recently been reviewed in detail by Roháček (2011) and, therefore, for the history of research and all related literature is to be referred to the latter paper. Sphaeroceridae are a relatively rich group of acalyptrate Diptera, comprising more than 1550 species in the World (Marshall et al. 2011) and about 260 species in Europe (Roháček 2004). In Slovakia 152 species of the family are known (Roháček 2009c) and from the Gemer area a total of 106 species have been recorded (Roháček 2011). Virtually all European species are saprophagous and their larvae develop in various decaying organic matter, viz. rotten vegetation, dung, carrion and fungal sporocarps. The adults preferentially occur in damp habitats with a supply of food-media for the larvae, often in numbers. There are also some synanthropic species living in or near human settlements and many symbovilous coprophagous species developing in dung heaps near stables or in pastures. The new material obtained in 2012-2013 in the Muránska planina NP included a number of new records for this national park and added 6 species to the Gemer fauna of Sphaeroceridae. The nomenclature used here follows that in Roháček et al. (2001) and Marshall et al. (2011)

Copromyzinae

Alloborborus pallifrons (Fallén, 1820) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 1992). Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 1.8 km SW, Rejkovo, 48°40'08''N, 19°55'36''E, 400 m, sweeping over pasture meadow, 23.vi.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg.

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Remarks: Although A. pallifrons was formerly recorded from the Muránska planina NP (Roháček 1992: Hrdzavá dolina) the above recent records confirmed it is the member of the local pasture fauna.

*Borborillus uncinatus (Duda, 1923) Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 4♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A Palaearctic species restricted to the temperate and northern belt of the region. It is a very rare species in Slovakia: single specimens were recorded from only 3 localities (Kyslinky in Poľana BR, Bardejov, Ruské, see Roháček 2009d), thus hitherto unknown from the Gemer area. This also is a member of the community developing in horse and donkey dung on old pastures and is considered vulnerable (VU), both in Slovakia (Jedlička & Stloukalová 2001) and the Czech Republic (Roháček 2005b).

*Borborillus vitripennis (Meigen, 1830) Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 5♀; Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 26.vii.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A widespread Palaearctic species characteristic of old horse pastures. In the Czech Republic it is treated as a vulnerable (VU) species (Roháček 2005b) and, although it is more frequent in Slovakia (cf. Roháček 2009d), it seems to be also threatened in this country. First records from the Gemer area.

Copromyza equina Fallén, 1820 Literature: see Fritsch (1875), Thalhammer (1899), Roháček (1986, 1989). Material: Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 3♀, 26.vii.2012, 1♀, 4.ix.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Although this is relatively common and subcosmopolitan coprophagous species, the above records are surprisingly the first from the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011).

Copromyza stercoraria Fallén, 1820 Literature: see Roháček (2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, sweeping over pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno, Zlatnica res., 48°49'29''N, 20°05'22''E, 770 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 26.vii.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: The first record of this Holarctic species from the Gemer area has been published only recently (Roháček 2011). Two additional localities from the Muránska planina NP are given above.

Lotophila atra (Meigen, 1830) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 1989, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Nižná Kľaková saddle, 48°46'03''N, 19°57'46''E, 1200 m, sweeping over pasture meadow, 4.ix.2012, 2♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A very common Holarctic coprophagous species, but formerly recorded from a single locality in the Muránska planina NP.

Norrbomia costalis (Zetterstedt, 1847) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 1994). Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 11♂5♀; Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 10♂4♀, 26.vii.2012, 16♂9♀, 4.ix.2012, 4♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: The species is associated with (preferably horse) dung in pastures. In the Gemer area it was formerly only known from Slovenský raj NP. First records from the Muránska planina NP.

*Norrbomia hispanica (Duda, 1923) Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 6♂5♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This coprophagous species is restricted to the southern part of the West Palaearctic area. It is rare in Central Europe, occurring only in horse pastures in warm areas. There is only one recent record of a single male from Slovakia (Roháček 2009d: Poľana Mts-Kyslinky). The above finding (first from the Gemer area) of more specimens on donkey droppings again demonstrates the recent spreading of this thermophilous species from Hungary to the north.

*Norrbomia somogyii (Papp, 1973) Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 2♂, J. Roháček leg.

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Remarks: A Southern Palaearctic-Oriental species rarely recorded from Central Europe. Similarly to the foregoing species it lives in horse dung in pastures and has been first recorded from Slovakia from the Poľana Biosphere Reserve (Roháček 2009d). The above record represents a new northernmost distribution limit of this thermophilous species, which may be expanding its distribution northwards due to warming of climate.

Norrbomia sordida (Zetterstedt, 1847) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 1994). Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 4♂2♀; Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A widespread coprophagous species, known from the Holarctic but also (probably introduced) Neotropical, Oriental and Oceanian Regions. As other Norrbomia species it lives in pastures on droppings of hoofed animals (particularly horses). First records from the Muránska planina NP.

Sphaerocerinae

Ischiolepta micropyga (Duda, 1938) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 2.8 km WSW, Hlboký jarok res., 48°40'17''N, 19°54'27''E, 500 m, sweeping undergrowth of beech forest, 23.vi.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This Palaearctic species is restricted to northern and temperate belts of the region and seems to be associated with terricolous humid habitats. In the Gemer are it was formerly only recorded from the Slovenský kras NP (Roháček 1986). First record from the Muránska planina NP.

Ischiolepta nitida (Duda, 1920) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, on horse excrement, 21.vi.2013, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Another Palaearctic, coprophagous species associated with pasture habitats. Like the foregoing species, it was previously unknown from the Muránska planina NP, being recorded from the Gemer area from a single locality in the Slovenský kras NP (Zádiel) by Roháček (1986).

Ischiolepta pusilla (Fallén, 1820) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 5♂3♀; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♂2♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Additional localities of this common subcosmopolitan, mainly coprophagous, species.

Lotobia pallidiventris (Meigen, 1830) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 12♂7♀; same locality, on horse excrement, 20.vi.2013, 2♂2♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: The above findings confirm the occurrence of this thermophilous coprophagous species associated with pastures in the Muránska planina NP (for the only previous record see Roháček 2011).

Sphaerocera curvipes Latreille, 1805 Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 1♂, 4.ix.2012, 2♀; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, on horse excrement, 21.vi.2013, 1♂, J. Roháček leg.; same locality, MT, 9.viii.-18.ix.2013, 1♂, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: Further records of this common, cosmopolitan and predominantly coprophagous species.

Limosininae

Apteromyia claviventris (Strobl, 1909) Literature: see (Roháček 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Zlatno env., Havraník brook, 48°49'28''N, 20°04'28''E, 750 m, forest margin, 14.vii.2011, ex Brachypodium pinnatum, 6♂2♀ emerged 8.-22.viii.2011, 16♂13♀ emerged

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Figs 4-6: Typical pasture-inhabiting species of Sphaeroceridae and their habitat. 4 – Lotobia pallidiventris (Meigen), male, dorsally; 5 – Norrbomia costalis (Zetterstedt), female, laterally; 6 – pasture with donkeys at the Zbojská chalet nr. Pohronská Polhora in the Muránska planina NP, habitat of both above and a number of other coprophagous species of Sphaeroceridae. Photo by J. Roháček.

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22.viii.-14.ix.2011, 2♂ emerged 14.ix.-1.xi.2011 (B49); same data, ex Calamagrostis arundinacea, 1♀ emerged 8.-22.viii.2011, 2♂8♀ emerged 22.viii.-14.ix.2011, 1♂2♀ emerged 14.ix.-1.xi.2011 (B50); same data but boggy meadow at brook,, ex Carex paniculata, 1♀ emerged 8.-22.viii.2011, 3♂4♀ emerged 22.viii.-14.ix.2011, 4♂1♀ emerged 14.ix.-1.xi.2011 (B51); Muránska planina NP, Mokrá Poľana res., 48°47'67''N, 20°06'42''E, 890 m, clearing in forest, 25.vi.2012, ex Agrostis gigantea, 1♀ emerged 24.ix.- 8.x.2012(B53); same data, ex Calamagrostis epigejos, 1♀ emerged 24.ix.-8.x.2012 (B54); Muránska planina NP, Javorinka saddle, 48°47'46''N, 20°08'06''E, 950 m, clearing in forest, 25.vi.2012, ex Festuca pratensis, 1♀ emerged 18.vii.-9.viii.2013, 1♀ emerged 9.viii.-9.ix.2013 (B55), all J. Roháček leg.; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., beech forest, ET, 21.vi.-8.viii.2013, 2♂1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: All the former records of this terricolous/cavernicolous Holarctic species from the Gemer area were from the Slovenský kras NP (see Roháček 1986, 2011). First records of this polysaprophagous species from the Muránska planina are all based on reared specimens (see above).

Bifronsina bifrons (Stenhammar, 1855) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Interestingly, this widespread, almost cosmopolitan species has hitherto not been recorded from the Muránska planina NP; moreover, there was only a single record from the whole of the Gemer area (Slovenský kras NP: Brzotín).

Chaetopodella scutellaris (Haliday, 1836) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Čertova dolina res., 48°44'10''N, 19°51'31''E, 700 m, sweeping vegetation along brook in ravine, 20.vi.2013, 4♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, sweeping undergrowth of mixed forest, 21.vi.2013, 2♂2♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Additional records of this common Palaearctic, largely coprophagous, species.

Coproica acutangula (Zetterstedt, 1847) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 5♂2♀, 4.ix.2012, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 1.8 km SW, Rejkovo, 48°40'08''N, 19°55'36''E, 400 m, sweeping over pasture meadow, 23.vi.2012, 2♂; Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 4♂9♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This coprophagous species proved to be common on horse dung in pastures in the Muránska planina NP although it was formerly recorded from a single locality in the area (Roháček 2011).

Coproica ferruginata (Stenhammar, 1855) Literature: see (Roháček 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 2♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, on horse excrement, 21.vi.2013, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Additional records of this common and omnipresent species. Interestingly, the male found in Zlatno has only 2 stpl setae and resembles thus Coproica rohaceki Carles-Tolrá, 1990 (a thermophilous species also found recently in Hungary) but the examination of genitalia confirmed it is only a mutant C. ferruginata.

Coproica hirticula Collin, 1956 Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 2♂; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♂2♀; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., upper part, 48°45'50''N, 19°59'00''E, 820 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 4.ix.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg.; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., beech forest, ET, 17.ix.-4.x.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg.; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, on horse excrement, 21.vi.2013, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A very common subcosmopolitan species; interestingly, it was formerly unrecorded from the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011).

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Coproica hirtula (Rondani, 1880) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., beech forest, ET, 17.ix.-4.x.2013, 1♂, J. Ševčík et al. leg.; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, MT, 18.ix.- 4.x.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: C. hirtula is also a widespread synanthropic species, but seems to be less common than the foregoing species in Central Europe. First records from the Muránska planina NP.

Coproica lugubris (Haliday, 1836) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., upper part, 48°45'50''N, 19°59'00''E, 820 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 4.ix.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: An additional record of this coprophagous species which is often common on dung in pastures.

Coproica pusio (Zetterstedt, 1847) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 3♀; Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 2♂; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, on horse excrement, 21.vi.2013, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Additional records of the coprophagous species, associated with dung in pastures from the Muránska planina NP.

Coproica vagans (Haliday, 1833) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Although usually very common, this cosmopolitan species often occurring on dung has scarcely been recorded from the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011).

Elachisoma aterrimum (Haliday, 1833) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Zlatno env., Havraník brook, 48°49'28''N, 20°04'28''E, 750 m, boggy meadow at brook, 14.vii.2011, ex Carex paniculata, 1♂ emerged 14.ix.-1.xi.2011 (B51), J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Also this tiny Holarctic species has hitherto only been recorded from Slovenský kras NP in the Gemer area. The above records are the first from the Muránska planina NP.

Elachisoma pilosum (Duda, 1924) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This largely coprophagous species, occurring on pastures, has scarcely been recorded from the Gemer area. This is the second finding in the Muránska planina NP.

Eulimosina ochripes (Meigen, 1830) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 24.vi.2012, 1♂; Muránska Dlhá Lúka 2 km SE, 48°42'12''N, 20°05'51''E, 360 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 3.ix.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This Holarctic phytosaprophagous species has hitherto not been recorded from the Muránska planina NP (see Roháček 2011). It occurs mainly in open grassy habitats.

Gonioneura spinipennis (Haliday, 1836) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., beech forest, ET, 21.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♂, J. Ševčík et al. leg.; Muránska planina NP, Veľká lúka, 48°46'21''N, 20°03'41''E, 880 m, on horse excrement in pasture meadow, 24.vi.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 24.vi.2012, 3♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, on horse excrement, 21.vi.2013, 2♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Further records of this common mainly coprophagous species from the Muránska planina NP.

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Leptocera fontinalis (Fallén, 1826) Literature: see Roháček (1982, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska Dlhá Lúka 2 km SE, 48°42'12''N, 20°05'51''E, 360 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 27.vii.2012, 1♀, 3.ix.2012, 4♂2♀; Muránska planina NP, Stožky gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°49'14''N, 19°56'07''E, 870 m, sweeping Glyceria fluitans on pond shore, 24.vi.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 24.vi.2012, 2♂; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., upper part, 48°45'50''N, 19°59'00''E, 820 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 4.ix.2012, 2♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This Holarctic species is common in woodland in the Muránska planina NP.

Leptocera nigra Olivier, 1813 Literature: see Roháček (1982, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 24.vi.2012, 2♂; Muránska planina NP, Nižná Kľaková saddle, 48°46'03''N, 19°57'46''E, 1200 m, sweeping over pasture meadow, 4.ix.2012, 1♂1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A widespread Old World phytosaprophagous species, also frequently encountered in the Gemer area.

*Leptocera oldenbergi (Duda, 1918) Material: Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 3.6 km W, Suché doly res., 48°41'14''N, 19°53'44''E, 560 m, sweeping undergrowth of beech forest, 23.vi.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A generally rare European species, considered vulnerable (VU) in the Czech Republic (Roháček 2005b), is associated with undisturbed woodland habitats. It has also been rarely recorded from Slovakia where most records originate from the Poľana Biosphere Reserve (Roháček 2009d). First record from the Gemer area.

Minilimosina (Minilimosina) fungicola (Haliday, 1836) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., upper part, 48°45'50''N, 19°59'00''E, 820 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 4.ix.2012, 3♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno env., Havraník brook, 48°49'28''N, 20°04'28''E, 750 m, forest margin, 14.vii.2011, ex Brachypodium pinnatum, 6♂5♀ emerged 22.viii.-14.ix.2011, 1♀ emerged 14.ix.-1.xi.2011 (B49); Muránska planina NP, Mokrá Poľana res., 48°47'67''N, 20°06'42''E, 890 m, clearing in forest, 25.vi.2012, ex Agrostis gigantea, 1♀ emerged 15.iv.-28.v.2013 (B53); same data, ex Calamagrostis epigejos, 1♀ emerged 15.iv.-28.v.2013 (B54), J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A common polysaprophagous species but hitherto recorded from only a single locality in the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011). The majority of above recorded specimens were reared from tufts of grasses.

Minilimosina (Minilimosina) parvula (Stenhammar, 1855) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Zlatno env., Havraník brook, 48°49'28''N, 20°04'28''E, 750 m, forest margin, 14.vii.2011, ex Brachypodium pinnatum, 9♂7♀ emerged 22.viii.-14.ix.2011, 3♂5♀ emerged 14.ix.-1.xi.2011 (B49), J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Although being a common polysaprophagous species, M. parvula has hitherto not been known in the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011). All specimens listed above were reared from a clump of the grass Brachypodium pinnatum, surely developing in rotting parts of the plant.

Minilimosina (Svarciella) v-atrum (Villeneuve, 1917) Literature: see Roháček (1986, as M. splendens). Material: Muránska planina NP, Šiance res., top plateau, 48°46'11''N, 20°04'14''E, 1000 m, aspirated from tufts of grass, 26.vii.2012, 2♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Another polysaprophagous species which has formerly been unknown from the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011). It seems to be associated with deciduous woodland.

Minilimosina (Svarciella) guestphalica (Duda, 1918) Material: Muránska planina NP, Muránska Huta 1 km NW, Bobačka cave env., 48°46'49''N, 20°06'16''E, 780 m, sifting leaves in beech forest, 11.iv.2012, 1♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 3.6 km W, Suché doly res., 48°41'14''N, 19°53'44''E, 560 m, sweeping undergrowth of beech forest, 23.vi.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg.

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Remarks: A psychrophilous species of temperate and North Europe. In Central Europe it is restricted to higher altitude forests and peat-bog habitats. First records from the Gemer area. Note: previous records from Slovakia were published under the (misinterpreted) name M. (S.) v-atrum, while the true M. v-atrum was recorded as M. splendens (Duda, 1928).

Minilimosina (Svarciella) vitripennis (Zetterstedt, 1847) Literature: see Roháček (1983). Material: Muránska planina NP, Nižná Kľaková saddle, 48°46'03''N, 19°57'46''E, 1200 m, aspirated from tufts of grass, 4.ix.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: In the Gemer area this Holarctic species has hitherto only been known from the Slovenský raj NP. First record from the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011).

Opacifrons coxata (Stenhammar, 1855) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 1 km S, nr. pond, 48°39'56''N, 19°56'30''E, 385 m, sweeping Carex acuta in boggy meadow, 23.vi.2012, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 1 km S, Vachtové jazierko res., 48°39'58''N, 19°56'34''E, 386 m, sweeping over boggy meadow, 23.vi.2012, 1♂2♀; Muránska Dlhá Lúka 2 km SE, 48°42'12''N, 20°05'51''E, 360 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 3.ix.2012, 2♂4♀; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., upper part, 48°45'50''N, 19°59'00''E, 820 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 4.ix.2012, 1♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Stožky gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°49'14''N, 19°56'07''E, 870 m, sweeping Carex sp. on boggy shore of a pond, 24.vi.2012, 6♂2♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A common Palaearctic species also frequently encountered in the Muránska planina NP.

Opalimosina (Opalimosina) mirabilis (Collin, 1902) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., 48°44'49''N, 20°01'12''E, 500 m, on bones of red deer, 21.vi.2013, 1♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 3♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Additional records of this almost cosmopolitan polysaprophagous species.

Opalimosina (Pappiella) liliputana (Rondani, 1880) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, 27.vii.2012, ex rotting cut grass, 1♂ emerged 21.ix.-5.x.2012 (B56), J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Although common, habitat-tolerant and widespread, this species has hitherto not been recorded from the Muránska planina NP.

Paralimosina fucata (Rondani, 1880) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Čertova dolina, upper part, MT, 20.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg.; Muránska planina NP, Čertova dolina res., 48°44'10''N, 19°51'31''E, 700 m, sweeping vegetation along brook in ravine, 20.vi.2013, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 4.7 km NW, Rimava valley, 48°43'02''N, 19°54'25''E, 570 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 5.ix.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res, top plateau, MT, 21.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg.. Remarks: In the Gemer area this West Palaearctic woodland species has only been known from Slovenský kras NP (cf. Roháček 1986). First records from the Muránska planina NP.

*Paralimosina kaszabi Papp, 1973 Literature: see Roháček (2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 3.6 km W, Suché doly res., 48°41'14''N, 19°53'44''E, 560 m, sweeping undergrowth of beech forest, 23.vi.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: An additional record of this uncommon terricolous and microcavernicolous species. In the Gemer area it is only known from the Muránska planina NP (Roháček 2011).

Philocoprella quadrispina (Laurence, 1952) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 11♂5♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: In the Gemer area this West Palaearctic coprophagous pasture species has previously only been recorded from Slovenský kras NP (see Roháček 2011). First record from the Muránska planina NP.

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Phthitia (Kimosina) plumosula (Rondani, 1880) Literature: see Roháček (1986, as Kimosina). Material: Muránska Lehota, Lehotský potok (brook), 48°42'58''N, 20°00'16''E, 455 m, sweeping over cut deciduous trees, 25.vii.2012, 1♂1♀; Muránska Dlhá Lúka 2 km SE, 48°42'12''N, 20°05'51''E, 360 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 3.ix.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., upper part, 48°45'50''N, 19°59'00''E, 820 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 4.ix.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Confirmed occurrence of this Holarctic phytosaprophagous species in the Muránska planina NP.

Pseudocollinella humida (Haliday, 1836) Literature: see Roháček (1986, as Opacifrons), Roháček (2011). Material: Muránska Dlhá Lúka 2 km SE, 48°42'12''N, 20°05'51''E, 360 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 27.vii.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Čertova dolina res., 48°44'10''N, 19°51'31''E, 700 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Muránska Huta 0.3 km W, Šiance res., 48°46'01''N, 20°06'29''E, 760 m, sweeping undergrowth of beech forest, 18.ix.2013, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Additional records of this common Palaearctic paludicolous species.

Pteremis fenestralis (Fallén, 1820) Literature: see Roháček (2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Šiance res., top plateau, 48°46'11''N, 20°04'14''E, 1000 m, aspirated from tufts of grass, 26.vii.2012, 4♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This West Palaearctic terricolous species is here recorded for the second time from the Gemer area (cf. Roháček 2011).

Pullimosina (Pullimosina) heteroneura (Haliday, 1836) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Despite being a cosmopolitan and polysaprophagous species, P. heteroneura has formerly not been recorded from the Muránska planina NP. In the Gemer area there is only a single previous record from the Slovenský kras NP (Roháček 1986).

Pullimosina (Pullimosina) meijerei (Duda, 1918) Literature: see Roháček (1978, as Limosina), Roháček (1986, 2012). Material: Muránska planina NP, Šarkanica res., 48°42'45''N, 19°59'19''E, 580 m, sifting leaves in deciduous forest, 12.iv.2012, 1♀ f. brach., 1♀ f. macropt.; Muránska planina NP, Muránska Huta 1 km NW, Bobačka cave env., 48°46'49''N, 20°06'16''E, 780 m, sifting leaves in beech forest, 11.iv.2012, 1♂ with unevenly developed wings (see Roháček 2012a: Fig. 4), all J. Roháček leg. Remarks: In the Gemer territory this wing-polymorphic, terricolous and phytosaprophagous species has only been known from single locality in the Slovenský kras NP (Roháček 1986: Zádielská planina). Among specimens collected in the Muránska planina NP, there was also a male with one wing reduced and the other normal. This is the first case of such a specimen ever found in Sphaeroceridae (see Roháček 2012a).

Pullimosina (Pullimosina) pullula (Zetterstedt, 1847) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Zlatno env., Havraník brook, 48°49'28''N, 20°04'28''E, 750 m, forest margin, 14.vii.2011, ex Calamagrostis arundinacea, 3♀ emerged 22.viii.-14.ix.2011, 14♀ emerged 14.ix.-1.xi.2011 (B50), all J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Also this Holarctic terricolous species, parthenogenetic in Central Europe, is here recorded from the Muránska planina NP for the first time, based on specimens reared from a tuft of grass (see above).

Pullimosina (Pullimosina) vulgesta Roháček, 2001 Literature: see Roháček (1978, as Limosina moesta), Roháček (1986, as Pullimosina moesta). Material: Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 3.6 km W, Suché doly res., 48°41'14''N, 19°53'44''E, 560 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 20.vi.2013, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno, Zlatnica res., 48°49'29''N, 20°05'22''E, 770 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 26.vii.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♂; Muránska Lehota, Lehotský potok (brook), 48°42'58''N, 20°00'16''E, 455 m, sweeping over cut deciduous trees, 25.vii.2012, 2♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This West Palaearctic species, common in grassland habitats, has hitherto been unrecorded from the Muránska planina NP.

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Puncticorpus cribratum (Villeneuve, 1917) Literature: see Roháček & Marshall (1982), Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Muránska Huta 1 km NW, Bobačka cave env., 48°46'49''N, 20°06'16''E, 780 m, sifting leaves in beech forest, 2♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: In the Gemer territory P. cribratum was only known from the Slovenský kras NP. The above record confirmed the occurrence of this West Palaearctic terricolous species in the Muránska planina NP.

Rachispoda limosa (Fallén, 1820) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 1991, both as Leptocera (Rachispoda)). Material: Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, on horse excrement, 21.vi.2013, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: First record of this common and widespread paludicolous species in the Muránska planina NP.

Rachispoda lutosa (Stenhammar, 1855) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 1991, both as Leptocera (Rachispoda)). Material: Muránska Dlhá Lúka 2 km SE, 48°42'12''N, 20°05'51''E, 360 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 27.vii.2012, 1♀; Muránska planina NP, Stožky gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°49'14''N, 19°56'07''E, 870 m, sweeping Carex sp. in boggy shore of a pond, 24.vi.2012, 3♂1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Also this very common species living on shores of water bodies and other boggy habitats is here recorded from the Muránska planina NP for the first time.

*Spelobia cambrica (Richards, 1929) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Muránska Huta 1 km NW, Bobačka cave env., 48°46'49''N, 20°06'16''E, 780 m, sifting leaves in beech forest, 11.iv.2012, 2♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: An additional record of this uncommon species associated with well-preserved montane forests from the Muránska planina NP.

Spelobia clunipes (Meigen, 1830) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Čertova dolina, upper part, MT, 20.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♂, J. Ševčík et al. leg.; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., upper part, 48°45'50''N, 19°59'00''E, 820 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 4.ix.2012, 2♂3♀; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., 48°44'49''N, 20°01'12''E, 500 m, on bones of red deer, 21.vi.2013, 1♂1♀; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, on horse excrement, 21.vi.2013, 1♂3♀, J. Roháček leg; same locality, MT, 21.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♂, 8.viii.-18.ix.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: A Holarctic polysaprophagous species, also common in the Muránska planina NP.

Spelobia ibrida Roháček, 1983 Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Muránska Huta 1 km NW, Bobačka cave env., 48°46'49''N, 20°06'16''E, 780 m, sweeping undergrowth of beech forest, 11.iv.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This uncommon phytosaprophagous species is associated with montane forests of Central and South Europe. In the Gemer area it remains to be known only from the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011).

Spelobia luteilabris (Rondani, 1880) Literature: see Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., 48°44'49''N, 20°01'12''E, 500 m, on bones of red deer, 21.vi.2013, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: A Holarctic polysaprophagous species. It is here recorded from the Muránska planina NP for the first time.

Spelobia manicata (Richards, 1927) Literature: see Roháček (2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 3.6 km W, Suché doly res., 48°41'14''N, 19°53'44''E, 560 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 20.vi.2013, 1♂; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., 48°44'49''N, 20°01'12''E, 500 m, on bones of red deer, 21.vi.2013, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: In the Gemer area this European microcavernicolous species is only known from the Muránska planina NP (Roháček 2011).

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Spelobia palmata (Richards, 1927) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., 48°44'49''N, 20°01'12''E, 500 m, on bones of red deer, 21.vi.2013, 1♂, J. Roháček leg.; same locality, beech forest, MT, 21.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♂, 8.viii.- 17.ix.2012, 2♂, J. Ševčík et al. leg., Remarks: Additional records of this West Palaearctic, largely necrophagous, species.

Spelobia parapusio (Dahl, 1909) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Čertova dolina, upper part, MT, 20.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg.; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., 48°44'49''N, 20°01'12''E, 500 m, on bones of red deer, 21.vi.2013, 1♀, J. Roháček leg.; same locality, beech forest, ET, 8.viii.-17.ix.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: In the Muránska planina NP this Palaearctic species is common on decaying fungi (cf. also Roháček 2011).

Spelobia rufilabris (Stenhammar, 1855) Literature: Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Nižná Kľaková saddle, 48°46'03''N, 19°57'46''E, 1200 m, aspirated from tufts of grass, 4.ix.2012, 1♂; same locality, sweeping over pasture meadow, 4.ix.2012, 1♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: First records of this otherwise widespread Palaearctic species from the Muránska planina NP.

Spelobia talparum (Richards, 1927) Literature: see Roháček (1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Tisovec 1 km S, nr. pond, 48°39'56''N, 19°56'30''E, 385 m, sweeping Carex acuta in boggy meadow, 23.vi.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: An additional record of this subterranean Palaearctic species from the Muránska planina NP.

Telomerina flavipes (Meigen, 1830) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res, top plateau, MT, 21.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♂, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: This subcosmopolitan, predominantly necrophagous, species has hitherto not been recorded from the Muránska planina NP (cf. Roháček 2011).

Terrilimosina schmitzi (Duda, 1918) Literature: see Roháček (1983, 1986, 2011). Material: Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., beech forest, ET, 21.vi.-8.viii.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg.; Muránska planina NP, Hrdzavá dolina res., upper part, 48°45'50''N, 19°59'00''E, 820 m, sweeping vegetation along brook, 4.ix.2012, 2♂; Muránska planina NP, Muránska Huta 1 km NW, Bobačka cave env., 48°46'49''N, 20°06'16''E, 780 m, sweeping undergrowth of beech forest, 11.iv.2012, 2♂1♀; Muránska Lehota, Lehotský potok (brook), 48°42'58''N, 20°00'16''E, 455 m, sweeping over cut deciduous trees, 25.vii.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg.; Muránska planina NP, Poľudnica res., top plateau, 48°45'50''N, 20°01'54''E, 960 m, MT, 18.ix.-4.x.2013, 1♀, J. Ševčík et al. leg. Remarks: This Holarctic woodland species is common in the Muránska planina NP.

Trachyopella (Nudopella) leucoptera (Haliday, 1836) Literature: see Roháček & Marshall (1986), Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Zlatno E margin, 48°49'40''N, 20°05'17''E, 745 m, 27.vii.2012, ex rotting cut grass, 3♂3♀ emerged 5.-21.ix.2012 (B56), J. Roháček leg. Remarks: Formerly, T. (N.) leucoptera has only been known from the Slovenský kras NP in the Gemer area. Its first record from the Muránska planina NP is given above. The same is true for the next three species of Trachyopella (s.str.).

Trachyopella (Trachyopella) kuntzei (Duda, 1918) Literature: see Roháček & Marshall (1986), Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 2♂, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This West Palaearctic species is known to develop in rotting vegetation.

Trachyopella (Trachyopella) lineafrons (Spuler, 1925) Literature: see Roháček & Marshall (1986), Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Patina gamekeeper’s lodge, 48°47'10''N, 19°56'11''E, 800 m, on heap of cut grass, 26.vii.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: An originally probably Nearctic, now subcosmopolitan, species. It displays some degree of synanthropy and can develop in various decaying matter.

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Trachyopella (Trachyopella) melania (Haliday, 1836) Literature: see Roháček & Marshall (1986), Roháček (1986). Material: Muránska planina NP, Pohronská Polhora 4.2 km E, Zbojská chalet, 48°44'39''N, 19°51'11''E, 735 m, on donkey dung, 5.ix.2012, 1♀, J. Roháček leg. Remarks: This uncommon (in Slovakia) species may also occur in settlement vicinity and is polysaprophagous like the foregoing species.

Discussion and conclusions

The families Trixoscelididae and Chyromyidae are represented by two and a single species respectively in the Gemer area. Of these Trixoscelis canescens and Chyromya miladae are considered important and probably threatened members of the regional dipterous communities because both are rare in Central Europe and these records from the Muránska planina NP are only the second in Slovakia. However, these two families remain under investigated in the Gemer territory; at least a few additional species of each are expected to be found there, particularly in warm forest-steppe habitats in the limestone karst of the Slovenský kras NP. On the other hand the recent review of Sphaeroceridae (Roháček 2011) included as many as 106 species in the Gemer area, which seems to demonstrate a very high diversity of Sphaeroceridae in the region. However, the above results from additional field research (2012-2013) in the Muránska planina NP clearly showed that this number is probably far from being definitive. Altogether 6 species are here added to the Sphaeroceridae fauna of the Gemer area, viz. Borborillus incinatus, B. vitripennis, Norrbomia hispanica, N. somogyii (all associated with old horse pastures), Leptocera oldenbergi and Minilimosina guestphalica (both members of communities in well-preserved submontane and montane forests), so that the current number of species of this family reached 112 in this territory. Because the majority of important species of Sphaeroceridae in the Gemer area were commented upon in the foregoing paper (Roháček 2011) it would be purposeless to repeat these facts here despite some of these species have now been recorded (for the first time) also from the Muránska planina NP. More importantly, the present study demonstrated that also in the latter national park the diversity of the local fauna is at least as rich as those in both neighbouring parks (Slovenský raj NP, Slovenský kras NP) and that it also includes rare, ecologically or biogeographically important or endangered species. A total of 37 species are added to the dipterous fauna of the Muránska planina NP which now comprises 87 species of Sphaeroceridae. Interestingly, of the six species encountered as new members of the Gemer fauna four belong to jeopardized species of the pasture fly communities (see above) and two (Norrbomia hispanica, N. somogyii) are thermophilous species that only recently penetrated to Slovakia (cf. Roháček 2009d), so expanding their distribution area northerly. The remaining two species, Leptocera oldenbergi and Minilimosina guestphalica, are characteristic members of undisturbed woodland communities, and L. oldenbergi also belongs to the threatened taxa in Central Europe (classified as vulnerable in the Czech Republic, see Roháček 2005b).

Acknowledgements: I should like acknowledge the contribution of J. Ševčík, D. Kapřák and M. Mantič (Ostrava, Czech Republic) who accompanied me in the fieldwork in the Muránska planina and cared for traps installed in 2012 and 2013 there. My sincere gratitude are also due to P. J. Chandler (Melksham, U. K.) for all corrections, comments, and the language revision of the text of this paper. The study was financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic by institutional financing of long-term conceptual development of the research institution (the Silesian Museum, MK000100595), internal grant of the Silesian Museum No. IGS201303/2013.

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Fauna akalyptrátních čeledí Trixoscelididae, Chyromyidae a Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) v Gemerské oblasti (střední Slovensko): 2. doplněk

Ve druhém doplňku fauny akalyptrátních dvoukřídlých v Gemerské oblasti (Slovensko) jsou prezentovány nové nálezy druhů z Národního parku Muránska planina získané terénním výzkumem v r. 2012-2013. Na základě nově prostudovaného materiálu jsou z této oblasti uvedeny údaje o výskytu 2 druhů čeledi Trixoscelididae, 1 druhu čeledi Chyromyidae and 68 druhů čeledi Sphaeroceridae. Každý z prezentovaných druhů je pojednán s informacemi o jeho celkovém rozšíření, faunistice na Slovensku, bionomii a případném významu pro ochranu přírody. Chyromya miladae Andersson, 1976 z čeledi Chyromyidae a 6 druhů z čeledi Sphaeroceridae, viz Borborillus uncinatus (Duda, 1923), B. vitripennis (Meigen, 1830), Norrbomia hispanica

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(Duda, 1923), N. somogyii (Papp, 1973), Leptocera oldenbergi (Duda, 1918) a Minilimosina (Svarciella) guestphalica (Duda, 1918), je nových pro faunu celé Gemerské oblasti a dalších 31 druhů čeledi Sphaeroceridae je poprvé hlášeno z Národního parku Muránska planina. Nálezy druhů Trixoscelis canescens (Loew, 1865), Chyromya miladae Andersson, 1976, Norrbomia hispanica (Duda, 1923) a N. somogyii (Papp, 1973) jsou druhými na Slovensku. Všechny výše jmenované druhy patří k významných zástupcům lokální dipterofauny a to předevší kvůli své vazbě na ohrožené biotopy, celkové vzácnosti nebo proto, že se v oblasti Gemeru (zde na Muránské planině) vyskytují na hranici svého areálu rozšíření.

Author’s address: Jindřich Roháček, Slezské zemské muzeum, Tyršova 1, CZ – 746 01 Opava, Czech Republic; e-mail: [email protected]

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