@article {60585, title = {A Peculiar New Genus of Bibionomorpha (Diptera) with Brachycera-Like Modification of Antennae from Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar}, volume = {12}, year = {2021}, month = {Apr-20-2021}, pages = {364}, abstract = {

A new fossil genus of Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha), Burmahesperinus gen. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, is described and illustrated (type species Burmahesperinus antennatus sp. nov., the other two species included are B. conicus sp. nov. and B. pedicellatus sp. nov.). The new genus is tentatively placed in a new subfamily, Burmahesperininae subfam. nov. of the family Bibionidae. Its possible phylogenetic position is briefly discussed. The new genus, as well as the subfamily, possesses the wing venation similar to the recent genus Hesperinus Walker, 1848, in combination with Brachycera-like modification of both the male and female antenna and the overall habitus typical of fungus gnats (Sciaroidea).

}, issn = {2075-4450}, doi = {10.3390/insects12040364}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12040364}, author = {{\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan and Skartveit, John and Krzemi{\'n}ski, Wies{\l}aw and Skibi{\'n}ska, Kornelia} } @article {60147, title = {Five new Palaearctic species of Docosia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with updated molecular phylogeny of the genus}, journal = {European Journal of Taxonomy}, volume = {717}, year = {2020}, month = {May-09-2021}, pages = {3 - 26}, abstract = {

A new phylogenetic hypothesis is proposed for the relationships among the species within the genus Docosia Winnertz, 1863, based on a combined analysis of five DNA markers (28S, ITS2, COI, COII and CytB). Five new species are described, Docosia anatolica \Šev{\v c}\ík sp. nov. from Turkey, D. japonica Kurina sp. nov. from Japan, D. peloponnensis \Šev{\v c}\ík sp. nov. from Greece, D. svanetica Kurina sp. nov. from Caucasus and D. polyspina Kurina sp. nov. from the Russian Far East. New country records of the following species are presented: D. diutina Plassmann, 1996 (Turkey), D. flavicoxa Strobl, 1900 (Georgia), D. gilvipes (Haliday in Walker, 1856) (Georgia), D. kerkini Kurina \& \Šev{\v c}\ík, 2011 (Bulgaria), D. moravica Landrock, 1916 (Georgia), D. pannonica Lastovka \& \Šev{\v c}\ík 2006 (Georgia) and D. rameli Kurina \& \Šev{\v c}\ík, 2011 (Slovakia).

}, doi = {10.5852/ejt.2020.717.1095}, url = {https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/1095/2793}, author = {{\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan and Burd{\'\i}kov{\'a}, Nikola and Kasp{\v r}{\'a}k, David and Kurina, Olavi} } @article {60141, title = {Intriguing and Beautiful: Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar Represents a New Subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)}, journal = {Insects}, volume = {11}, year = {2020}, month = {Jan-09-2020}, pages = {552}, abstract = {

Simple Summary: The Upper Cretaceous amber of Myanmar (also known as Burmese amber) is almost 100 Mya old and represents invaluable source of information about the evolution of life in the late Mesozoic. Various groups of fossil flies (Diptera) belong to the most abundant insects found in these fossil resins indicating that it was the Mesozoic when the early evolution and radiation of Diptera took place. Here we describe a remarkable fossil fly which combines characters of various other related flies from different families (both extant and fossil) in a very unusual way. This new genus is tentatively placed in the family Keroplatidae (the so called predaceous fungus gnats) pending and stimulating further research into the evolution of lower Diptera.

Abstract: A new fossil genus and species of Keroplatidae (Diptera, Bibionomorpha, Sciaroidea), Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber is described and illustrated. Based on morphological evidence, it is placed in a new subfamily Adamacrocerinae subfam. nov. The new genus, as well as the subfamily, possesses the wing venation characteristic of the genera of some Sciaroidea incertae sedis, as well as that of the fossil families Archizelmiridae, Antefungivoridae and Mesosciophilidae, in combination with macrocerine-like habitus and male terminalia.

}, doi = {10.3390/insects11090552}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/9/552https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/9/552/pdf}, author = {{\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan and Krzemi{\'n}ski, Wies{\l}aw and Skibi{\'n}ska, Kornelia} } @article {60123, title = {Hidden in Plain Sight: Comprehensive Molecular Phylogeny of Keroplatidae and Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera) Reveals Parallel Evolution and Leads to a Revised Family Classification}, journal = {Insects}, volume = {11}, year = {2020}, pages = {1-16}, abstract = {

We provide the first molecular phylogeny of Keroplatidae and Lygistorrhinidae, families of fungus gnats (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea). Phylogenies reconstructed by Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian methods, based on four nuclear and four mitochondrial gene markers (5106 base pairs) sequenced for 75 genera and 105 species, show Keroplatidae as monophyletic only with the family Lygistorrhinidae included, herewith treated as the subfamily Lygistorrhininae stat. nov. The subfamily Arachnocampinae is retained in the family, although lowering its overall support. An early branching clade, comprising species of Platyura Meigen, 1803 and Paleoplatyura melanderi Fisher, 1941, forms subfamily Platyurinae Loew, 1850 stat. nov. The subfamilies Sciarokeroplatinae and Macrocerinae grouped together with three genera considered here as Keroplatidae incertae sedis. Subfamily Lygistorrhininae forms a sister clade to subfamily Keroplatinae, both retained monophyletic with high support. The traditional division of the subfamily Keroplatinae into the tribes Orfeliini and Keroplatini appears as outdated, resting largely on adaptive characters prone to parallel evolution. We find support for an alternative tribe corresponding to the Cloeophoromyia\–Asindulum genus group, but a tribal reclassification of the Keroplatinae is left for future studies. The genus Heteropterna Skuse, 1888 is considered as identical with Ctenoceridion Matile, 1972 syn. nov.

}, doi = {10.3390/insects11060348}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/6/348}, author = {Manti{\v c}, Michal and Sikora, Tom{\'a}{\v s} and Burd{\'\i}kov{\'a}, Nikola and Blagoderov, Vladimir and Kj{\ae}randsen, Jostein and Kurina, Olavi and {\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan} } @article {57303, title = {Molecular phylogeny of the Paleogene fungus gnat tribe Exechiini (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) revisited: Monophyly of genera established and rapid radiation confirmed}, journal = {Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research}, volume = {57}, year = {2019}, month = {Apr-04-2019}, pages = {806-821}, issn = {0947-5745}, doi = {10.1111/jzs.12287}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jzs.12287}, author = {Burd{\'\i}kov{\'a}, Nikola and Kj{\ae}randsen, Jostein and Lindemann, Jon Peder and Kasp{\v r}{\'a}k, David and T{\'o}thov{\'a}, Andrea and {\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan} } @article {57296, title = {Cabamofa orientalis sp. nov. from Thailand, congeneric with C. mira Jaschhof from Costa Rica (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea incertae sedis)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = { 4576}, year = {2019}, pages = {392{\textendash}394 }, abstract = {

The genus Cabamofa, previously containing only C. mira from Costa Rica (Jaschhof 2005), is shown here to have a second species in Thailand, which is described and named C. orientalis\ sp. nov. The new species is known from a single male collected by the TIGER Project (Thailand Inventory Group for Entomological Research), a mass-sampling program to\  inventory\  insect\  diversity\  in\  Southeast\  Asia\  (Plant\  et\  al.\  2011;\  http://sharkeylab.org/tiger,\  accessed\  14\  December\  2018). As the circumstances of finding indicate, C. orientalis is a decidedly rare species, an attribute applying to perhaps one third of all tropical arthropods (Lim et al. 2012) and most Sciaroidea incertae sedis (Jaschhof 2017), including the Costa Rican C. mira. The latter species was originally described from two females, which were Malaise trapped in 2003 in lowland rain forest (Jaschhof 2005), while a conspecific male, a museum specimen collected in 1922 in an unknown habitat, was detected and described subsequently (Amorim \& Rindal 2007). Cabamofa is one of nearly 20 sciaroid genera\  whose\  family\  affiliation\  has\  not\  yet\  been\  resolved\  (Jaschhof\  2017),\  but\  there\  is\  morphological\  evidence\  suggesting its close affinity to other Sciaroidea incertae sedis, such as Rogambara Jaschhof, 2005, Ohakunea Tonnoir \& Edwards,\  1927,\  and\  Colonomyia\  Colless,\  1963.\  These\  four\  genera\  together\  form\  the\  Ohakunea\  group\  of\  Jaschhof\  (2005), or the Ohakuneinae (as a subfamily of the broadly conceived family Rangomaramidae) of Amorim \& Rindal (2007). Recent molecular work (\Šev{\v c}\ík et al. 2016, Kasp{\v r}\ák et al. 2019) suggests a more distant phylogenetic position of Ohakunea to other Sciaroidea incertae sedis. The obvious conflict here between morphological and molecular evidence is stimulating fresh interest in the \“incertae sedis issue\”, as proven by the present contribution. The morphology of C. orientalis\  provides\  no\  new\  clues\  as\  to\  the\  systematic\  position\  of\  Cabamofa,\  or\  the\  Ohakunea\  group,\  but\  reveals\  characters that were previously not known to occur in Cabamofa. The delimitation of this genus is briefly reviewed below. Our finding of C. orientalis extends the geographic distribution of Cabamofa from the New World to the Old World (Oriental) tropics, which consorts with the disjunct (Neotropical-Australasian) areas found in both Colonomyia and Ohakunea. Morphological terminology used here is in accordance with that by Cumming \& Wood (2017).

}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4576.210.11646/zootaxa.4576.2.12}, url = {https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4576.2https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4576.2.12}, author = {Jaschhof, Mathias and {\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan} } @article {56653, title = {Macrocera rohaceki sp. nov. and other interesting records of Keroplatidae (Diptera) from southern and central Europe, with DNA sequence data}, journal = {Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae}, volume = {57}, year = {2017}, pages = {751{\textendash}764}, abstract = {

A new species of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea), Macrocera rohaceki sp. nov., is described from the island of Mallorca (Spain). A further remarkable species, Paleoplatyura johnsoni Johannsen, 1910, hitherto only known from the Nearctic Region, is recorded from Sicily (Italy). New records of Isoneuromyia czernyi (Strobl, 1909) and I. pseudochracea (Landrock, 1925) from Slovakia are provided, including figures of the male terminalia. Their relationships to the widely distributed European species, I. semirufa (Meigen, 1818), are reconstructed using three mitochondrial DNA markers (12S, COI, cytb). A key to the European species of Isoneuromyia Brunetti, 1912 is also provided.

}, doi = {10.1515/aemnp-2017-0098}, author = {Manti{\v c}, Michal and {\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan} } @article {56515, title = {A remarkable new genus of Keroplatidae (Insecta, Diptera) from the Afrotropical region, with DNA sequence data}, journal = {African Invertebrates}, volume = {58}, year = {2017}, month = {11/05/2017}, pages = {93 - 105}, issn = {1681-5556}, doi = {10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.12655}, url = {http://africaninvertebrates.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=12655}, author = {Kurina, Olavi and Manti{\v c}, Michal and {\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan} } @article {56507, title = {Two new Oriental species of Paramanota Tuomikoski (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with DNA sequence data}, journal = {Raffles Bulletin of Zoology}, volume = {64}, year = {2016}, pages = {360{\textendash}367}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Sevcik2/publication/311455719_Two_new_Oriental_species_of_Paramanota_Tuomikoski_Diptera_Mycetophilidae_with_DNA_sequence_data/links/58486ab508aeda696825e5fa.pdf}, author = {Hippa, Heikki and Kasp{\v r}{\'a}k, David and Kahar, Siti Rafhiah Haji Abd and {\v S}ev{\v c}{\'\i}k, Jan} }