A review of scuttle fly genera of Israel (Diptera: Phoridae), with new records and an identification key Author Mostovski, Mike B. text Zootaxa 2016 4137 1 61 72 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.1.4 1c6ab101-fab1-442b-aa9a-93f1824f298d 1175-5326 264841 722D15D8-4320-4034-A587-034A589DAA8F Metopina formicomendicula Schmitz, 1927 Material. Israel : 1♀ Efrat [ 31°39'59"N 35°09'45"E ], 4–5.iv.2016 , M. Mostovski, pine forest, yellow pan trap. Remarks. This rare European species was originally described from Germany and recently recorded in Czech Republic ( Šindlar, 2003 ) and north-eastern Italy ( Latella & Zanetti, 2004 ). Adults of this species were reported soliciting food from Solenopsis fugax worker ants ( Disney, 1994 ), which are also recorded in Israel ( Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009 ). In the key to Israeli Metopina ( Mostovski, 2016 ) , females of M. formicomendicula run to M. ulrichi , from which they readily differ in having a considerably longer posterior portion of the abdominal tergite 5, as well as in non-elongated setae along the posterior margin of the abdominal tergite 4 and in lacking membranous evaginations with longish setulae in the posterior dorsolateral position on the fifth abdominal segment in fresh specimens.