New records of big-headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from the Mediterranean Basin

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Kehlmaier, Christian, Gibbs, David J., Withers, Phil (2019): New records of big-headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from the Mediterranean Basin. Bonn zoological Bulletin 68 (1): 31-60, DOI: 10.20363/BZB-2019.68.1.031, URL: dx.doi.org/10.20363/bzb-2019.68.1.031 Abstract. Despite great progress in Pipunculidae (Insecta: Diptera) systematics during the past decades, the Mediterranean fauna of big-headed flies remains largely unknown.

Here, we present new faunistic and taxonomic data for 98 named species from Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, and Turkey, based on our own collecting efforts and museum specimens. Besides 56 first national records, the paper includes the description of Cephalops (Semicephalops) brachium Kehlmaier & Withers sp. n. from France and Spain, and of Tomosvaryella osito Kehlmaier, Gibbs & Withers sp. n. and Tomosvaryella pugiunculus Kehlmaier & Gibbs sp. n. from the Balear Islands (Spain).