Ecologica Montenegrina 29: 34-39 (2020) This journal is available online at: www.biotaxa.org/em http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.29.4 https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:16001712-EB4E-410C-B2C4-152545C25F84 A new species of Triphleba Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Kyrgyzstan with some other scuttle flies from the region MARIO LANGOUROV National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria. E-mail:
[email protected] Received 21 February 2020 │ Accepted by V. Pešić: 13 March 2020 │ Published online 14 March 2020. Abstract A new species of Triphleba Rondani is described and illustrated from Kyrgyzstan. We provide data on the sampling site, photos of the new species and brief differential diagnosis to separate from related species. Additionally, another ten species from Kyrgyzstan are reported and shortly discussed. All they are recorded for the first time for Kyrgyzstan and respectively Central Asia. Key words: Diptera, Phoridae, Triphleba, new species, Kyrgyzstan, new records. Introduction Genus Triphleba Rondani, 1856 includes about 66 species in the Palaearctic Region. They are basically covered by Schmitz (1943, 1949, 1955), supplemented and with additions by Delage & Lauraire (1970), Gotô & Takeno (1983), Disney (1983, 1987, 1994, 2011), Michailovskaya (1986, 1999), Gori (1999, 2000), Liu (2001), Disney & Chapman (2001), Disney & Michailovskaya (2002), Mostovski & Disney (2002), Disney & Brenner (2003), Carles-Tolrá & García-Romera (2011), Liu & Liu (2012), Disney & Winqvist (2018), Disney & Haarto (2019). In this paper, a new species, Triphleba simovi sp. nov., from Middle Asia is described and illustrated. Material and methods The scuttle flies were collected by Nikolay Simov fixed in 75% ethanol.