The arthropod community of Scots pine (<i>Pinus sylvestris</i> L.) canopies in Norway

Abstract

We summarise the findings of arthropods collected by fogging the canopy of 24 pine trees in two sites in Eastern and Western Norway. From the samples, taken in 1998 and in 1999, almost 30,000 specimens were determined to 512 species,with Diptera being most species rich (210 species), followed by Coleoptera (76 species) and Araneae (49 species). Of the 96 new species records, nine were new to science (5 Diptera and 4 Oribatida), two were new to the European, three to the Scandinavian and 82 to the Norwegian faunas. The paper demonstrates the need for detailed faunistical inventories of European forests.

The Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Sciaridae) of Norway – Part I: species records published until December 2019, with an updated checklist

“…Some of these early records, but not all, were later treated in a modern review of the family (Menzel and Mohrig 2000). Relatively few recent studies exist, but notably Thunes et al (2004), Hippa et al (2010), Köhler et al (2014), Figures 1-3. Habitus of Norwegian Sciaridae 1 winged male of Bradysia fenestralis (Zetterstedt, 1838) 2 brachypterous female of Corynoptera minima (Meigen, 1818) 3 apterous female of Epidapus gracilis (Walker, 1848).…”