九州総合博物館研究報告第14号 Bulletin of the Kyushu University Museum No.14, 2016, pp.1-36 Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of Saitama Prefecture 1) 2) Hiroshi SHIMA & Katsushi HARA 1)Kyushu University Museum, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan. E-mail:
[email protected] 2)327-1 Sakurazawa, Yorii-machi, Osato-gun, Saitama 369-1201, Japan. Abstract: A total of 341 species of the Tachinidae (Diptera) are recorded from Saitama Prefecture, central Japan (Honshu). Seventeen species are newly recorded from Japan (Billaea brevicauda Zhang & Shima, B. kolomietzi (Mesnil), Istocheta rufipes (Villeneuve), Carcelia townsendi Crosskey, C. delicatula Mesnil, Catagonia aberrans (Mesnil), Senometopia longie- pandriuma (Chao & Liang), S. mimoexcisa (Chao & Liang), Blepharipa tibialis (Chao), Onychogonia flaviceps (Zetterstedt), Pales peregrina Herting, Cylindromyia arator Reinhard, Hemyda hertingi Ziegler & Shima, Perigymnosoma globulum Villeneuve, Panzeria vagans (Meigen), Glaurocara lucidula Richter, and Peleteria sphyricera (Macquaert)) and five genera each with an undetermined species are newly known from Japan (Admontia, Ligeria, Medinodexia, Hapalioloemus, and Phytomyptera). Exorista (Adenia) tubigera Mesnil and Exorista (Spixomyia) lepis Chao, which were mistakenly omitted in the Catalog of the Insects of Japan (Shima, 2014), are noted. Key Word: Tachinid fauna, Saitama Prefecture, Japanese Tachinidae, parasitoids, systematics. 1. Introduction Prefecture in Honshu based on material donated to the Kyushu University Museum together with material reported by Hara The Tachinidae are one of the largest families of the (1978). Seventeen species are newly recorded from Japan. Five Diptera and are known from some 8500 species in the world genera are also newly recorded from Japan, although the (O’Hara, 2013: 1). All members of the family develop as endo- species are not yet determined.