A revision of the shore-fly genus Lamproclasiopa Hendel (Diptera, Ephydridae)

Costa, Daniel N. R.; Mathis, Wayne N.; Marinoni, Luciane

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“…Here, all species were identified to named species or morphospecies (Appendix 1), nearly all of which require further taxonomic study and interpretation (but see papers generated by our project: Bickel 2015;Brown 2014;Brown & Porras 2016;Costa et al 2016;Epler 2017;Grimaldi 2016;Hartop & Brown 2014a, b, c;Jaschhof 2014Jaschhof , 2016Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2014, Kvifte et al 2016, 2018Marshall 2015;Michelsen 2017;Santarém et al in press). ZADBI specimens will undoubtedly form the basis for many more taxonomic papers over the coming decades.…”

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Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science

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Study of all flies (Diptera) collected for one year from a four-hectare (150 x 266 meter) patch of cloud forest at 1,600 meters above sea level at Zurquí de Moravia, San José Province, Costa Rica (hereafter referred to as Zurquí), revealed an astounding 4,332 species. This amounts to more than half the number of named species of flies for all of Central America. Specimens were collected with two Malaise traps running continuously and with a wide array of supplementary collecting methods for three days of each month. All morphospecies from all 73 families recorded were fully curated by technicians before submission to an international team of 59 taxonomic experts for identification.Overall, a Malaise trap on the forest edge captured 1,988 species or 51% of all collected dipteran taxa (other than of Phoridae, subsampled only from this and one other Malaise trap). A Malaise trap in the forest sampled 906 species. Of other sampling methods, the combination of four other Malaise traps and an intercept trap, aerial/hand collecting, 10 emergence traps, and four CDC light traps added the greatest number of species to our inventory. This complement of sampling methods was an effective combination for retrieving substantial numbers of species of Diptera. Comparison of select sampling methods (considering 3,487 species of non-phorid Diptera) provided further details regarding how many species were sampled by various methods.Comparison of species numbers from each of two permanent Malaise traps from Zurquí with those of single Malaise traps at each of Tapantí and Las Alturas, 40 and 180 km distant from Zurquí respectively, suggested significant species turnover. Comparison of the greater number of species collected in all traps from Zurquí did not markedly change the degree of similarity between the three sites, although the actual number of species shared did increase.Comparisons of the total number of named and unnamed species of Diptera from four hectares at Zurquí is equivalent to 51% of all flies named from Central America, greater than all the named fly fauna of Colombia, equivalent to 14% of named Neotropical species and equal to about 2.7% of all named Diptera worldwide. Clearly the number of species of Diptera in tropical regions has been severely underestimated and the actual number may surpass the number of species of Coleoptera.Various published extrapolations from limited data to estimate total numbers of species of larger taxonomic categories (e.g., Hexapoda, Arthropoda, Eukaryota, etc.) are highly questionable, and certainly will remain uncertain until we have more exhaustive surveys of all and diverse taxa (like Diptera) from multiple tropical sites.Morphological characterization of species in inventories provides identifications placed in the context of taxonomy, phylogeny, form, and ecology. DNA barcoding species is a valuable tool to estimate species numbers but used alone fails to provide a broader context for the species identified.

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Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science

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“…Both Drosophilidae and Ephydridae have seen numbers of species reported in Canada increase by approximately 30% since JF McAlpine et al (1979), to 79 and 197 species, respectively, and more unreported and undescribed species are likely to be found (Table 1). Nearctic Drosophilidae have been the subject of considerable phylogenetic, taxonomic, and faunistic research (e.g., Remsen and O’Grady 2002, Brake and Bächli 2008, Miller et al 2017) and many of the genera and subgroups of Nearctic Ephydridae have been revised recently (e.g., Mathis and Zatwarnicki 1995, Costa et al 2016). Most species of Ephydroidea are suspected to be saprophagous as larvae, although there have been records of leaf-mining and predaceous species.…”

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Diptera of Canada

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The Canadian Diptera fauna is updated. Numbers of species currently known from Canada, total Barcode Index Numbers (BINs), and estimated numbers of undescribed or unrecorded species are provided for each family. An overview of recent changes in the systematics and Canadian faunistics of major groups is provided as well as some general information on biology and life history. A total of 116 families and 9620 described species of Canadian Diptera are reported, representing more than a 36% increase in species numbers since the last comparable assessment by JF McAlpine et al. (1979). Almost 30,000 BINs have so far been obtained from flies in Canada. Estimates of additional number of species remaining to be documented in the country range from 5200 to 20,400.

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A revision of the shore-fly genus Lamproclasiopa Hendel (Diptera, Ephydridae)

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Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science

Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science

Diptera of Canada

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