Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 4() 1959
The Syrphidae of the Polish Tatra Mts. (Diptera)
Abstract:
INTRODUCTION. The southern part of Poland — thanks to the investigations of Воbеk (1890, 1892, 1894), Nowicki (1867, 1869a, 1869b, 1873), Grzegorzek (1872), and Loew (1870) — is comparatively well described in its dipterological aspect. The first faunistic list of the Tatran flies was published in 1867 by Nowicki. His list of Diptera was made according to the zones of vegetation (see next page). The species from the forest („Regle“) zone, from the alpine pasture zone, and from the subnivean zone were quoted separately. The investigations were continued in later years by Nowicki (1868, 1869a, 1869b, 1873), as well as by Loew (1870) and Воbеk (1890). A basic faunistic complete flies-list for the area of former Austrian Galicia (as well as for the Tatra Mts.) was compiled by Nowicki (1873). Nowicki, however, does not take into account the time of appearance of the separate species, and quotes the place of their appearance rather vaguely (e. g. Tatra Mts., Podolia, etc.). The state of knowledge on the Tatran fauna of the Dipteran family Syrphidae is based till now on the material of data supplied by the research workers named above. In 1954 Moucha and Štys published a paper on the vertical distribution of the Dipteran family Syrphidae in Czechoslovakia. Their paper also takes into account the materials collected in the Slovak Tatra Mts. (……..) The present paper is based on scientific materials collected by the author in the years 1956 and 1957 in the Tatra National Park; his investigations formed a part of those made by the Kraków Branch of the Institute of Zoology, Polish Akademy of Science. The present paper also takes into account the material of Diptera collected in the Tatra Mts. in the years 1950-1954 by Professor R. Wojtusiak and a team of his collaborators. These materials were collected according to a definite oecological notation and some data from the latter were used by the author.
