Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
electronic version 2, 2009

Psychodidae Newman, 1834

Jan Ježek

Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; jan_jezek@nm.cz

Small nematocerous flies (1.0-5.0 mm), thickly clothed with hairs and scales ("moth flies"), the colour of the vestiture mainly greyish-white or blackish-brown; rather broad, lancet-shaped and often patterned wings, with ten or eleven veins mostly reaching the wing margin, radial and medial forks usually developed, wing membrane bare or haired; ocelli absent, number of antennomeres 14-16, flagellomeres with characteristic sensory filaments (ascoids); hypopygium of the inverse type, with gonopods (gonocoxite and gonostyle), aedeagal complex, epandrium and hypandrium, surstyli with different numbers of retinaculi. Sexual dimorphism often developed. Shape of female subgenital plate and cerci occasionally useful for identification. Adult Psychodinae are found in a wide range of wet habitats, including rotting organic material and manure. Females of Sycoracinae suck the blood of some Amphibia. The larvae of non-phlebotomine moth flies are saprophagous, coprophilous, urinophilic, cochliothelmic, mycobiontic, psammobiontic, petrimadicolous, limimadicolous, bryomadicolous and bryofluicolous, and are also found in phyto- and dendrotelmes or actively tunnel the rotting wood of fallen trees (Trichomyinae). The larvae of non-biting moth flies are mainly semiaquatic and are probably all shredders of detritus (decaying organic matter). In general, the adults have not been observed feeding in nature, but sweet solutions were successfully used in the laboratory (Jung 1956).

Of the world subfamilies Phlebotominae, Bruchomyinae, Horaiellinae, Sycoracinae, Trichomyinae and Psychodinae, only the last three occur in Central Europe. Altogether almost 500 species are known to occur in Europe and the adjacent island areas (Wagner 2007), and 172 are listed in the present checklist: 166 in the Czech Republic (139 in Bohemia, 145 in Moravia) and 97 in Slovakia. Since the ECV1, the number of species in the Czech Republic has increased by 17 (11 in Bohemia, 21 in Moravia) and in Slovakia by 7. The species-richness of the psychodid fauna in the Czech Republic is continualy increasing, and our knowledge of the moth flies in Slovakia is comparable but there are fewer species.

The basic characteristics of the family and useful keys have been given by Freeman (1950), Ježek (2007), Ježek and van Harten (2005), Jung (1956), Rozkošný (1980), Szabó (1983), Tanasijchuk (1969), Vaillant (1971-1983), Wagner (1997) and Withers (1989). Some faunistic data from the Czech Republic and Slovakia were summarized by Ježek (2003) and completed by Bulánková (2003). The nomenclature used in the present checklist agrees only in some respects with the Fauna Europaea (Wagner 2007): there are differing and controversial taxonomic and nomenclatural views on this family currently being published, and it is not appropriate to discuss them in this very brief introduction.

This study was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (grant No. MK00002327201).

References

[1] Bulánková E. 1999: Výskyt vybraných skupín vodných dvojkrídlovcov v BR Poľana (Slovakia). Folia Faunistica Slovaca 4: 151-156.

[2] Bulánková E. 2003: Súpis druhov vodných bezstavovcov (makroevertebrát) Slovenska, Kapitola 2 – iné Diptera. In Šporka F. (ed.): Vodné bezstavovce (makroevertebráta) Slovenska. Súpis druhov a autekologické charakteristiky. Slovenský hydrometeorologický ústav, Bratislava, pp. 70-74.

[3] Bulánková E., Halgoš J., Krno I., Bitušík P., Illéšová D., Lukáš J., Derka T. & Šporka F. 2002: The influence of different thermal regime on the structure of coenoses of sternothermal hydrobionts in mountain streams. Acta Zoologica Universitatis Comenianae 44: 95-101.

[4] Freeman P. 1950: British Psychodidae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9, 2. Royal Entomological Society, London, pp. 77-96.

[5] Helešic J., Kubíček F., Losos B., Sedlák E. & Zahrádková S. 2001: Aquatic invertebrates and hydrobiology of the Dyje (Thaya) river in National Park Podyjí. Thayensia 4: 53-65.

[6] Ježek J. 1997: New and interesting taxa of moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from different moist biotopes of the Palaearctic region. Časopis Národního Muzea, Řada přírodovědná 166: 105-122.

[7] Ježek J. 1998: Psychodidae. In Rozkošný R. & Vaňhara J. (eds): Diptera of the Pálava Biosphere Reserve of UNESCO, I. Folia Facultatis Scientarium Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 99: 71-77.

[8] Ježek J. 1999: Moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) inhabiting wet extreme biotopes of the Sokolov open-cast coal mines and dumps, with descriptions of three new species from the western Bohemia. Acta Musei Nationlis Pragae, Series B, Historia Naturalis 54: 45−60.

[9] Ježek J. 2001: New Palaearctic taxa of moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from very small accidental spirituous samples of insects. In Chvála M. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca Vol 10. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Biologica 45: 53-66.

[10] Ježek J. 2002: The first account of Slovenian moth flies (Psychodidae, Diptera). Časopis Národního Muzea, Řada přírodovědná 171: 89-116.

[11] Ježek J. 2003: New faunistic data and check list of non phlebotomine moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Czech and Slovak Republics. Časopis Národního Muzea, Řada přírodovědná 172: 121-132.

[12] Ježek J. 2004: New and interesting moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from protected and underestimated natural areas of the Czech Republic. Časopis Národního Muzea, Řada přírodovědná 173: 113-128.

[13] Ježek J. 2006a: Psychodidae (Diptera) of the Jeseníky Protected Landscape Area and its environs with descriptions of two new Berdeniella species from the Czech Republic. Acta entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 46: 151-192.

[14] Ježek J. 2006b: Faunistic records, Psychodidae. In Kinkorová J. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca Vol. 13. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Biologica 50: 139-141.

[15] Ježek J. 2006c: Koutulovití (Psychodidae, Diptera) CHKO Kokořínsko. In Beran L. (ed.): Bezobratlí Kokořínska. Bohemia centralis 27: 423-430.

[16] Ježek J. 2006d: New faunistic records of moth flies (Insecta, Diptera, Psychodidae) from Slovakia. Entomofauna carpathica, 18: 34-36.

[17] Ježek J. 2007: New records of moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Poland with description of Apsycha gen. nov. In Stloukalová V. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca, Vol. 14. Acta Zoologica Universitatis Comenianae 47: 145-160.

[18] Ježek J. 2009a: Further new faunistic records of moth flies (Insecta, Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Psychodidae. Folia faunistica Slovaca 14: 101-105.

[19] Ježek J. 2009b: Psychodidae. In Roháček J. & Ševčík J. (eds): Diptera of the Poľana Protected Landscape Area – Biosphere Reserve (Central Slovakia). SNC SR, Administration of the PLA – BR Poľana, Zvolen, pp. 89-92.

[20] Ježek J. & Barták M. 2000: Psychodidae. In Barták M. & Vaňhara J. (eds): Diptera in an industrially affected region (North-Western Bohemia, Bílina and Duchcov Environs), I. Folia Facultatis Scientarium Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 104: 93-100.

[21] Ježek J. & Hájek J. 2007: Psychodidae (Diptera) of the Orlické hory Protected Landscape Area and neighbouring areas with descriptions of two new species from the Czech Republic. Acta entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47: 237-285.

[22] Ježek J. & van Harten A. 2005: Further new taxa and little-known species of non-biting moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Yemen. Acta entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45: 199-220.

[23] Ježek J., Kubík Š. & Barták M. 2005: Psychodidae. In Barták M. & Kubík Š. (eds): Diptera of Podyjí National Park and its environs. Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze, PowerPrint, Praha 6 – Suchdol, pp. 78-85.

[24] Ježek J. & Omelková M. 2007: New faunistic records of moth flies (Insecta, Diptera) from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Psychodidae. In Stloukalová V. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca, Vol. 14. Acta Zoologica Universitatis Comenianae 47: 250-253.

[25] Ježek J., Vonička P. & Preisler J. 2008: Psychodidae (Diptera) of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic). Sborník Severočeského Muzea, Přírodní Vědy, Liberec 26: 129-151.

[26] Jung H.F. 1956: Beiträge zur Biologie, Morphologie und Systematik der Europäischen Psychodiden (Diptera). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift (Berlin), N.F. 3: 97-257.

[27] Rozkošný R. 1980: Čeleď Koutulovití – Psychodidae. In Rozkošný R. (ed.): Klíč vodních larev hmyzu. Academia, Praha, pp. 261-272.

[28] Szabó J. 1983: 10. család: Psychodidae – Lepkeszúnyogok. Vol. 14 (4/C), In Szabó J. & Delyné Draskovits Á. (eds): Magyarország Állatvilága. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 1-78.

[29] Ševčík J. 2004: Diptera associated with fungi in the Poloniny National Park (Bukovské vrchy Mts, East Slovakia). In Barták M. & Kubík Š. (eds): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca, Vol. 11. Folia Facultatis Scientarium Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 109: 293-304.

[30] Tanasijchuk V.N. 1969: [Family Psychodidae – moth flies.] In Bey-Bienko G.Y. (ed.): [Key to the identification of insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 5(1).] Nauka, Leningrad, p. 113-134. (In Russian).

[31] Vaillant F. 1971-1983: 9d. Psychodidae – Psychodinae. In Lindner E. (ed.): Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 287 (1971), pp. 1-48; 291 (1972), pp. 49-78; 292 (1972), pp. 79-108; 305 (1974), pp. 109-142; 310 (1975), pp. 143-182; 317 (1978), pp. 183-238; 320 (1979), pp. 239-270; 326 (1981), pp. 271-310; 328 (1983), pp. 311-358.

[32] Wagner R. 1997: Family Psychodidae. In Papp L. & Darvas B. (eds): Contributions to a manual of Palaearctic Diptera (with special reference to flies of economic importance). Science Herald, Budapest, Vol. 2, p. 205-226.

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[34] Withers P. 1989: Moth flies, Diptera: Psychodidae. Dipterists Digest 4: 1-83.

SYCORACINAE

Sycorax Curtis, 1839

bicornua Krek, 1970

)

popovi Ježek, 1990

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silacea Curtis, 1839

)

similis (Müller, 1927)

)

slovaca Halgoš, 1975

tonnoiri Jung, 1954

)

TRICHOMYIINAE

Trichomyia Curtis, 1839

parvula Szabó, 1960

(

)

urbica Curtis, 1839

)

PSYCHODINAE

MORMIINI

BRUNETTIINA

Atrichobrunettia Satchell, 1953

Mirousiella Vaillant, 1974

graeca Ježek & Goutner, 1993

(

)

ionica Wagner, 1984

(

)

MORMIINA

Jovamormia Ježek, 1983

caliginosa (Eaton, 1893)

(

)

Katamormia Ježek, 1984

strobli Ježek, 1986

)

Lepimormia Enderlein, 1936

palposa (Tonnoir, 1919)

Mormia Enderlein, 1935

revisenda (Eaton, 1893)

(

)

Oomormia Ježek, 1984

andrenipes (Strobl, 1910)

)

Promormia Ježek, 1983

eatoni (Tonnoir, 1940)

)

silesiensis Ježek, 1983

(

)

Psychomormia Ježek, 1983

incerta (Eaton, 1893)

)

vaillanti (Wagner, 1977)

)

Taramormia Ježek, 1984

caspersi (Wagner, 1977)

(

)

pulcherrima (Wagner, 1979)

)

tatrica Ježek, 1984

(

)

Yomormia Ježek, 1984

furva (Tonnoir, 1940)

(

)

PARAMORMIINI

PARAMORMIINA

Jungiella Vaillant, 1972

Jungiella s. str.

hygrophila Ježek, 1987

)

jadarica Krek, 1979

(

)

laetabilis Krek, 1979

(

)

septentrionalis Krek, 1979

)

soleata (Walker, 1856)

)

valachica (Vaillant, 1963)

)

Psychocha Ježek, 1983

acuminata (Szabó, 1960)

)

aquatica Ježek, 1983

)

hassiaca Wagner, 1993

)

laminata (Szabó, 1960)

)

procera Krek, 1971

)

ripicola (Bellier, 1967)

)

Psychogella Ježek, 1984

bohemica Ježek, 1979

)

inundationum Ježek, 1997

)

Krivosheinoscopus Ježek, 2001

bartai Ježek, 2004

)

Lepiseodina Enderlein, 1936

rothschildi (Eaton, 1912)

)

tristis (Meigen, 1830)

)

Panimerus Eaton, 1913

albifacies (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

denticulatus Krek, 1971

)

falcariformis Wagner, 1977

)

goetghebueri (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

kreki Vaillant, 1972

)

maynei (Tonnoir, 1920)

)

notabilis (Eaton, 1893)

)

unae Krek, 1977

(

)

verneysicus Vaillant, 1972

)

Parajungiella Vaillant, 1972

bohdanecensis Ježek & Hájek, 2007

)

consors (Eaton, 1893)

)

ellisi (Withers, 1987)

)

longicornis (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

prikryli Ježek, 1999

)

pseudolongicornis (Wagner, 1975)

)

serbica (Krek, 1985)

)

Paramormia Enderlein, 1935

Duckhousiella Vaillant, 1972

cornuta Nielsen, 1964

)

ustulata (Walker, 1856)

)

Paramormia s. str.

polyascoidea (Krek, 1971)

)

Phyllotelmatoscopus Vaillant, 1982

acuta (Krek, 1971)

)

Peripsychoda Enderlein, 1935

auriculata (Curtis, 1839)

)

fusca (Macquart, 1826)

)

zbytka Ježek, 2004

)

Psycmera Ježek, 1984

integella (Jung, 1956)

)

Sciria Enderlein, 1935

advena (Eaton, 1893)

)

Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904

britteni Tonnoir, 1940

)

carpathicus Ježek, 1988

(

)

carthusianus (Vaillant, 1972)

)

gressicus (Vaillant, 1972)

)

hajeki Ježek, 1997

)

labeculosus (Eaton, 1893)

)

TRICHOPSYCHODINA

Feuerborniella Vaillant, 1971

obscura (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

Philosepedon Eaton, 1904

austriacum Vaillant, 1974

)

balkanicum Krek, 1971

)

hrudkai Ježek, 1999

)

humerale (Meigen, 1818)

)

kowarzi Ježek, 1997

)

nickerli Ježek, 1997

)

pragense Ježek, 1997

)

Threticus Eaton, 1904

arvernicus Vaillant, 1972

(

)

balkaneoalpinus Krek, 1972

(

)

incurvus Krek, 1972

)

lucifugus (Walker, 1856)

)

negrobovi Vaillant, 1972

silvaticus Ježek, 1985

)

Trichopsychoda Tonnoir, 1922

hirtella (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

PSYCHODINI

Apsycha Ježek, 2007

pusilla (Tonnoir, 1922)

)

Chodopsycha Ježek, 1984

buxtoni (Withers, 1988)

)

lobata (Tonnoir, 1940)

)

Copropsychoda Vaillant, 1971

brevicornis (Tonnoir, 1940)

)

Logima Eaton, 1904

albipennis (Zetterstedt, 1850)

)

erminea (Eaton, 1893)

)

satchelli (Quate, 1955)

)

sigma (Kincaid, 1899)

)

zetterstedti Ježek, 1983

)

Psycha Ježek, 1984

grisescens (Tonnoir, 1922)

)

Psychoda Latreille, 1796

alticola Vaillant, 1973

)

crassipennis Tonnoir, 1940

)

phalaenoides (Linnaeus, 1758)

)

uniformata Haseman, 1907

)

Psychodocha Ježek, 1984

cinerea (Banks, 1894)

)

elegans (Kincaid, 1897)

)

gemina (Eaton, 1904)

)

itoco (Tokunaga & Komyo, 1955)

)

Psychodula Ježek, 1984

minuta (Banks, 1894)

)

Psychomora Ježek, 1984

mycophila (Vaillant, 1988)

)

in ECV1 as P. vanharai Ježek, 1995 [25]

trinodulosa (Tonnoir, 1922)

)

Tinearia Schellenberg, 1803

alternata (Say, 1824)

)

lativentris (Berdén, 1952)

)

Ypsydocha Ježek, 1984

setigera (Tonnoir, 1922)

)

PERICOMINI

Berdeniella Vaillant, 1976

chvojkai Ježek, 1999

)

desnensis Ježek, 2006

(

)

gardinii Salamanna & Raggio, 1984

helvetica (Sarà, 1957)

(

)

illiesi Wagner, 1973

)

kocii Ježek, 2006

)

longispinosa (Vaillant, 1958)

(

)

manicata (Tonnoir, 1920)

)

matthesi (Jung, 1954)

)

pyrenaica Vaillant, 1976

)

stavniensis (Krek, 1969)

)

unispinosa (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

vimmeri Ježek, 1997

)

Clytocerus Eaton, 1904

Boreoclytocerus Duckhouse, 1978

dalii (Eaton, 1893)

)

longicorniculatus Krek, 1987

)

ocellaris (Meigen, 1804)

)

rivosus (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

splendidus Ježek & Hájek, 2007

)

tetracorniculatus Wagner, 1977

)

Parabazarella Vaillant, 1983

in PCV2 as genus Bazarella [9]

subneglecta (Tonnoir, 1922)

)

Pericoma Walker, 1856

Pachypericoma Vaillant, 1978

blandula Eaton, 1893

)

fallax Eaton, 1893

)

formosa Nielsen, 1964

)

Pericoma s. str.

calcilega Feuerborn, 1923

)

diversa Tonnoir, 1919

(

)

exquisita Eaton, 1893

)

ljubiniensis Krek, 1969

(

)

pallida Vaillant, 1978

)

pannonica Szabó, 1960

(

)

pingarestica Vaillant, 1978

)

pseudoexquisita Tonnoir, 1940

)

rivularis Berdén, 1954

)

tatrica Szabó, 1960

tonnoiri Vaillant, 1978

(

)

trifasciata (Meigen, 1804)

)

vestita Vaillant & Withers, 1993

(

)

Pneumia Enderlein, 1935

canescens (Meigen, 1804)

)

compta (Eaton, 1893)

(

)

crispi (Freeman, 1953)

)

cubitospinosa (Jung, 1954)

)

fonticola (Szabó, 1960)

gracilis gracilis (Eaton, 1893)

)

mutua (Eaton, 1893)

)

nubila (Meigen, 1818)

)

palustris (Meigen, 1804)

)

pilularia (Tonnoir, 1940)

)

plumicornis (Tonnoir, 1922)

)

stammeri (Jung, 1956)

)

tjentistensis Krek, 1969

(

)

trivialis (Eaton, 1893)

)

Saraiella Vaillant, 1973

parva (Vaillant, 1963)

)

rotunda (Krek, 1970)

)

Szaboiella Vaillant, 1979

hibernica (Tonnoir, 1940)

)

Tonnoiriella Vaillant, 1972

nigricauda (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

pulchra (Eaton, 1893)

)

sieberti Wagner, 1993

(

)

Ulomyia Walker, 1856

annulata annulata (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

not as a subspecies in PCV2 [6]

cognata (Eaton, 1893)

)

fuliginosa (Meigen, 1804)

)

plumata (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

undulata (Tonnoir, 1919)

)

vaseki Ježek, 2002

)