ATTEMPT FOR COMPARISON BETWEEN SARCAPHAGI NAE-TAXOCOENOSES OF THE DALMATIAN ADRIATIC SEA COAST, THE BULGARIAN BLACK-SEA COAST AND THE GREEKAEGEAN AND IONIAN SEA COAST, AND RESPECTIVELY ADJACENT INLAND-LANDSCAPES (DIPTERA, SARCOPHAGIDAE, SARCOPHAGINAE)

An attempt is made to compare the taxocoenoses (associations) of(hillt opping) Sarcophaginae visiting organic substrates, mainly offal and sm all marine carcasses on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea near M akarska, on the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea and on the Greek Aege an and partly on Ionian Sea coast including the adjacent habitats, esp ecially mountain ranges. The long-term study basing on the statistic e valuation of several thousand specimens representing about 80 taxa ind icates general ecological disintegration mainly of the coastal habitat s due to the recreation, tourism etc. This disintegration shows, howev er, various trends and intensity depending on the level of the communa l hygiene and care devoted to the centres of recreation. The legally p rotected habitats in the adjacent inland habitats of the mountain rang es are obviously less disintegrated, their disintegration showing dire ct dependence on pasture and deforestation. The hypsometrical differen tiation of the sarcophagine taxocenoses revealed the possibility of di scerning groups of species characteristic of the individual vegetation tiers confirming or clearing little known or unknown ecological niche s of several little known taxa. The endemic taxa and the endemism degr ee of their habitats was cleared. The maximum ecological stability was observed in the limited but preserved remnants of the surviving fores t stands (e.g. in the Pindos Mountains of the Greek Macedonia or of th e Olymp Mountains in N' Greece), but partly also in the secondary macc hia coastal formations following the former forest stands destroyed gr adually during many centuries. The macchia zone shows also differentia ted ecological equilibrium according to its human disintegration by pa sture, fire, road construction etc. It appears that especially the mar ine coastal habitats with their dense human settlement and recreation are totally disintegrated. Groups of synanthropes, culturophiles and o f sarcophagine taxa inhabiting natural habitats were redefined and thi s their synecological classification made it possible to use especiall y the hilltopping aggregations of the flesh-flies as a model group for synecological studies.