Russian Entomol. J. 13(12): 8589 © RUSSIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 2004 On Chloropidae (Diptera: Muscomorpha) from Tunisia Î çëàêîâûõ ìóõàõ Chloropidae (Diptera: Muscomorpha) èç Òóíèñà Emilia P. Nartshuk Ý.Ï. Íàð÷óê Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1. St.-Petersburg, 199034 Russia. Çîîëîãè÷åñêèé èíñòèòóò Ðîññèéñêîé Àêàäåìèè íàóê, Óíèâåðñèòåòñêàÿ íàá. 1. Ñàíêò-Ïåòåðáóðã 199034 Ðîññèÿ. E-mail:
[email protected] KEY WORDS: Diptera, Chloropidae, Tunisia, North Africa. ÊËÞ×ÅÂÛÅ ÑËÎÂÀ: äâóêðûëûå, çëàêîâûå ìóõè, Òóíèñ, Ñåâ. Àôðèêà ABSTRACT. A collection of Chloropidae made by I have an opportunity to examine a small collection R. Danielsson in Tinisia in April of 1994 contains 25 of Chloropidae from Tunisia collected on 712.04. species, from them 3 species are referred only to genus 1984 by R. Danielsson (Zoological Museum of the Lund because of insufficient material. In the collection exam- University, Sweden). Tunisia is a small country on area ined, 6 species and 3 genera are recorded for the first of 163 610 km2 liying at the eastern end of Maghreb. It time for North Africa, whereas 14 species are new for the comprises a considerable diversity of habitats from fauna of Tunisia. In total, 39 species of Chloropidae are woody mountains to the aridity of the dunal system of the known now in Tunisia. The most abundant species in the Grand Erg. Three main geographical regions can be examined collection are Thaumatomyia notata (Meigen, distinguished: Tunisian Tell, semiarid steppe and desert. 1830), Oscinella frit (Linnaeus, 1758) and Tricimba Material was collected in 16 localities situated in Tuni- humeralis (Loew, 1858).