Checklist of the fungus gnats of Finland: Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae (Diptera)

Abstract

A checklist of the ’fungus gnat’ group of families in Sciaroidea: Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland. At present, the known Finnish fauna comprises 767 recognized species in 78 genera; 21 species of the family Bolitophilidae, 5 of the family Diadocidiidae, 2 of the family Ditomyiidae, 47 of the family Keroplatidae and 692 of the family Mycetophilidae. The unassigned genus Sciarosoma Chandler, 2002 is not included in this paper because it is listed with Sciaridae.The most relevant synonyms, on which species were ever listed from Finland in Hackman (1980) and subsequent authors are indicated in the checklist. Eighteen species names of wrong records were removed.

The Mycetophila ruficollis Meigen (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) group in Europe: elucidating species delimitation with COI and ITS2 sequence data

“…The species is widely distributed in Europe extending also to the Eastern Palearctic (Laštovka 1972, Chandler 2013, Jakovlev 2014). The material from Estonia represents a new country record.…”

“…Our records reveal saprotrophic members of the Agaricales as the host of this species. The species is widely distributed in Europe (Chandler 2013, Jakovlev 2014, Kjærandsen 2012) extending also to the Middle East and Eastern Palaearctic (Chandler 2013). The material from Georgia represents a new country record.…”

New taxonomic and faunistic records of fungus gnats (Insecta, Diptera) from Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia

“…This rare and poorly known European species was described from Great Britain (Edwards 1941, as Rhymosia) and was later recorded only from Poland (Zatwarnicki 2001, as Allodiopsis), Germany (Ševčík 2001), Finland (Jakovlev 2014), Sweden (Kjaerandsen et al 2007), Russian Karelia, Ukraine and Siberia (Zaitzev 2003); it is here reported for the first time from Romania. Immature stages are unknown, but most likely it is a forest associated species.…”

“…The species has a wide range, extending from Great Britain (Chandler 2000) and Portugal (Ribeiro 2003) to the Russian Far East (Zaitzev 2003). In Europe the species is also known from France (Chandler 2013), Finland (Jakovlev 2014), and Russian Karelia (Zaitzev 2003). This species is very close to M. gratiosa Winnertz, and some of the records published as M. gratiosa may actually belong to M. deflexa (e.g., Polevoi 2001) from eastern Finland).…”

“…The species has a European range, known from southern and Central Europe (Chandler 2013), including Great Britain (Edwards 1925), Spain (Mederos and Chandler 2014), Ukraine (Zaitzev 2003), and is here reported from Montenegro. The species was recently removed from the list of Finnish fungus gnats (Jakovlev 2014). Note that E. unguiculata has not been recorded from Japan, as was mentioned by Jakovlev (Lundström, 1911), male hypopygium.…”