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The Albanian Diptera fauna is one of the least studied areas in Europe; only 932 species and subspecies have been reported from the country (Pape & Beuk 2013). The Xylomyidae are a small family of Stratiomyomorpha comprised of four genera and 138 described species. The family is found in all zoogeographic regions but is somewhat more dominant in tropical forests. Only two genera occur in the Palaearctic region, Solva Walker, 1859 and Xylomya Rondani, 1861 (Woodley 2011). Solva contains six species in Europe, but four of them (Solva cabrerae, S. nigritibialis, S. palmensis, S. varicolor) are endemic to the Canary Islands and Madeira. Xylomya contains three species in Europe (Woodley 2011; Pape & Beuk 2013), but two of them are Nordic. However, two Caucasian species were found in the East Mediterranean Region by Üstüner & Hasbenli (2011); we also considered these species in our work. Based on the distribution data the species expected to be found in Albania are Solva marginata (Meigen), S. varia (Meigen), Xylomya ciscaucasica (Pleske), X. maculata (Meigen) and X. mlokosiewczi (Pleske). We present a key to the species expected to occur in Albania. The specimen was collected during a field trip to Albania. We observed the fly on a rocky wall and caught by net at a surprisingly high altitude (1630m a.s.l.). The specimen was preserved in a polyethylene tube after killed by chloroform. It was identified using a BTC STM-4 stereoscopic microscope based on keys provided by Lindner (1938), Majer (1977) and Nagatomi & Rozkosny (1997). The voucher specimen will be deposited in the Diptera Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary.

SOLVA MARGINATA (DIPTERA: XYLOMYIDAE) REPRESENT A FAMILY NEW TO ALBANIA