[Dipteran fauna of zoological preparation and veterinary postmortem rooms]

Zoological preparation rooms (P) and post-mortem rooms (S) constitute an environment for the spread of infection in areas of human habitation. In the absence of fly screens on the windows they are often invaded by Diptera which after landing on the frequently infested animal material leave again and become potential transmitters of disease in adjoining human living quarters. A large number of the 241 species of Diptera from 37 families identified in the P/S are regarded as potential transmitters. But suitability as transmitter is also potentially possible for an appreciable part of the remaining species. Field investigations over 20 years with various bait traps, e. g. fresh and decaying meat, excrements, human and animal food, have shown that many of these species observe sequences of substrate visitations similar to those Diptera identified in the literature as transmitters of disease. Should this assumption be confirmed the number of Diptera species which have to be considered as agents for the spread of disease would be enlarged within the environment of contamination P/S.--The results obtained in P/S constitutes an addition to the material so far worked out for the dipterology of human habitation. This should serve as background for further selective, microbiological and medical research on the role of Diptera as transmitters of disease.