European Phalacrotophora ( Diptera : Phoridae )

Hitherto six species of scuttle fly of the cosmopolitan genus Phalacrotophora Enderlein were known from Europe, of which only two were recorded from Britain and the Netherlands (Disney, 1991). The larvae of these two species, P. berolinensis Schmitz and P. fasciata (Fallén), are parasitoids of the pupae of Coccinellidae (ladybird beetles) (Disney, Majerus & Walpole, 1994). The larval habits ofthe other four European species have remained unknown. However, we can now report on one of these species from the Netherlands,P. delageae Disney, and th at it also parasitizes ladybird pupae. lts hitherto unknown male very c10sely resembles that of P. berolinensis. We present these new data below, add the description of a further new species from the N etherlands, and provide a new key to the European Phalacrotophora.