New data about hoverflies diversity (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) on the Fruška Gora mountain, Serbia

Abstract

The hoverflies fauna of the Fruška Gora Mountain is well known on account of long-term investigations conducted on the location (1956-2002). Previously, the list of hoverflies had included 203 species (Vujić and Glumac, 1994). Based on new investigations, nomenclature changes and recently published data, the following results were obtained: three species have been recorded for the first time for southeastern Europe, one species for FR Yugoslavia and seven species for the Fruška Gora; seven previously published species have been replaced and seven excluded from the list of the hoverflies fauna of the Fruška Gora; 16 species with recently established junior synonyms and 12 species with new generic names have been noted According to these results,the revised list of hoverflies of the Fruška Gora Mountain now consists of 210 species.

Keywords

• Diptera
• Syrphidae
• hoverflies fauna
• the Fruška Gora Mountain