New finds of tephritoid diptera (Diptera Tephritoidea) in the south-east of Ukraine

Based on the materials from the collection of the I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, a number of species of the families Ulidiidae and Tephritidae were recorded for the first time for the Luhansk Region of Ukraine and the checklist of species known from the region (including few finds from the neighbouring Donetsk and Kharkiv Regions) was updated. Currently, 63 species of Tephritidae and 8 species of Ulidiidae are known from Luhansk oblast. Urophora vera Korneyev & White, 1996 previously known only from Armenia and Iran is recorded from Ukraine and Europe for the first time.