@article {57397, title = {New and poorly known Palaearctic fungus gnats (Diptera, Sciaroidea)}, journal = {Biodiversity Data Journal}, volume = {5}, year = {2017}, month = {Jun-03-2017}, pages = {1-48}, abstract = {

Background
Fungus gnats (Sciaroidea) are a globally species rich group of lower Diptera. In Europe, Fennoscandian peninsula in particular holds a notable diversity, ca. 1000 species, of which 10 \% are still unnamed. Fungus gnats are predominantly terrestrial insects, but some species dwell in wetland habitats.
New information
Eight new fungus gnat species, belonging to the families Keroplatidae (Orfelia boreoalpina Salmela sp.n.) and Mycetophilidae (Sciophila holopaineni Salmela sp.n., S. curvata Salmela sp.n., Boletina sasakawai Salmela \& Kolcsár sp.n., B. norokorpii Salmela \& Kolcsár sp.n., Phronia sompio Salmela sp.n., P. reducta Salmela sp.n., P. prolongata Salmela sp.n.), are described. Four of the species are known from Fennoscandia only whilst two are supposed to have boreo-alpine disjunct ranges, i.e. having populations in Fennoscandia and the Central European Alps. One of the species probably has a boreal\ range (Finnish Lapland and Central Siberia). Type material of Boletina curta Sasakawa \& Kimura from Japan was found to consist of two species, and a further species close to these taxa is described from Finland. Phronia elegantula Hackman is redescribed and reported for the first time from Norway. DNA barcodes are provided for the first time for five species.

}, issn = {1314-2836}, doi = {10.3897/BDJ.5.e11760}, url = {http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=11760}, author = {Salmela, Jukka and Kolcs{\'a}r, Levente-P{\'e}ter} } @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} }