Historie a současnost české a slovenské dipterologie

Abstrakt: This paper provides a short history of the development of dipterology as a branch of entomology in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Four Checklists of Diptera were published from 1987 to 2009. The number of Diptera recorded in both countries increased from 6498 in 1987 to 8764 species in 2009. Five bibliographies including 5500 articles by Czech and Slovak dipterists cover the period 1758–2000. Fourteen volumes of the proceedings of Dipterologica bohemoslovaca, including 350 original papers, were published from 1978 to 2007. Since the end of the 18th century, 608 new species of Diptera of various families have been described from the Czech Republic. The period 1995–2011 has been the most productive for dipterists in the Czech and Slovak Republics: Czech and Slovak dipterists published 1986 articles.

Klíčová slova: Diptera, bibliography, checklist, faunistics, applied research, species richness, biodiversity, threatened and alien species, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Europe, Palaearctic region