Towards filling a major gap in the knowledge of Southeastern European Diptera biodiversity: new faunistic records of Brachycera from Albania with description of a new species of Hilara Meigen (Empididae)

Sixteen genera, one subgenus and 44 species of Brachycera (Diptera) are recorded from Albania for the first time, highlighting the country's significantly under-researched dipteran fauna. Among the reported species, the second known specimen of Phyto brevipila Herting, 1961, since the holotype is presented. A new species, Hilara serotina sp. nov. (Diptera: Empididae), is described and compared with its congeners.