@article {213, title = {Megaselia kaarinaensis {\textendash} a new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Finland}, journal = {Entomologist{\textquoteright}s Monthly Magazine}, volume = {159}, year = {2023}, pages = {29{\textendash}32}, chapter = {29}, abstract = {

A new species of phorid fly in the genus Megaselia, collected by Malaise trap in southwestern Finland, is described.

}, doi = {10.31184/M00138908.1591.4166}, author = {Disney, R Henry L and Haarto, Antti} } @article {211, title = {Lonchaea xylophila Kovalev, 1978 (Diptera, Lonchaeidae) new to Finland, with description of the female}, journal = {w-album}, year = {2023}, month = {01/2023}, pages = {3{\textendash}7}, abstract = {

The rare Palearctic Lonchaea species, Lonchaea xylophila Kovalev, 1978 (Diptera, Lonchaeidae), is reported as new to the Finnish fauna and its female is described for the first time. The Finnish fauna of Lonchaeidae is discussed.

}, issn = {1795-6668; 1795-665X}, url = {https://blogit.utu.fi/teks/wp-content/uploads/sites/74/2023/02/w_album_25.pdf}, author = {Haarto, Antti} } @article {207, title = {Suomen Diptera-faunaan 51 uutta lajia [51 new species to the Finnish Diptera fauna]}, journal = {w-album}, year = {2022}, month = {2022-11}, pages = {3-19}, chapter = {3}, abstract = {

In this paper 51 species of Diptera are reported as new to the Finnish fauna and two of these, Platycheirus sigiktae Mutin, 1999 and Spilogona costalis (Stein, 1907), are also new to Europe. In addition, previously unknown females of the species Triphleba sunnmorkensis Disney \& Jonassen, 2021 and Conioscinella tornensis Nartshuk \& Andersson, 2013 are described.

}, issn = {1795-6668}, url = {https://blogit.utu.fi/teks/w-album/}, author = {Haarto, Antti} } @article {202, title = {A new species of Triphleba Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Finland}, journal = {Entomologist{\textquoteright}s Gazette}, volume = {70}, year = {2019}, pages = {194{\textendash}196}, author = {Disney, Ronald Henry Lambert and Haarto, Antti} } @article {198, title = {Sicus ogumae (Matsumura, 1916) recorded from Finland, new to Europe (Diptera: Conopidae)}, journal = {Entomologist{\textquoteright}s Monthly Magazine}, volume = {156}, year = {2020}, pages = {117{\textendash}125}, abstract = {

Sicus ogumae is recorded in Europe for the first time, with 58 locations reported from Finland. Its worldwide distribution is described and new records are added from China, Japan, Mongolia and Russia. The identification, distribution, taxonomy and known biology of S. ogumae are summarised.

}, keywords = {China, Conopidae, diptera, Finland, identification, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, Sicus ogumae}, doi = {10.31184/M00138908.1562.4022}, author = {Stuke, Jens-Hermann and Kahanp{\"a}{\"a}, Jere and Haarto, Antti and Kakko, Iiro} } @article {196, title = {Scenopinus jerei, a new species of window fly (Diptera, Scenopinidae) from Finland}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {1059}, year = {2021}, month = {Sep-10-2021}, pages = {135-156}, abstract = {

A new species of window fly (Diptera: Scenopinidae), Scenopinus jerei sp. nov., with characteristic bicoloured legs and completely black halteres, is described from Finland. To exclude potential previously named species, a survey of the relevant type specimens as well as original descriptions of the Palearctic and Nearctic Scenopinus species has been conducted, including old Scenopinus fenestralis (Linnaeus) synonyms. Scenopinus jerei sp. nov. is likely to be an overlooked, boreal forest specialist living in the nests of cavity-nesting birds. An identification key to the European species is provided.

}, keywords = {DNA barcoding, synonyms, taxonomy}, issn = {1313-2970, 1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.1059.70085}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1059.70085}, author = {Pohjoism{\"a}ki, Jaakko and Haarto, Antti} } @article {186, title = {Scenopinus jerei, a new species of window fly (Diptera, Scenopinidae) from Finland}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {156}, year = {2021}, pages = {135{\textendash}156}, abstract = {

A new species of window fly (Diptera: Scenopinidae), Scenopinus jerei sp. nov., with characteristic bi-coloured legs and completely black halteres, is described from Finland. To exclude potential previously named species, a survey of the relevant type specimens as well as original descriptions of the Palearctic and Nearctic Scenopinus species has been conducted, including old Scenopinus fenestralis (Linnaeus) synonyms. Scenopinus jerei sp. nov. is likely to be an overlooked, boreal forest specialist living in the nests of cavity- nesting birds. An identification key to the European species is provided.

}, keywords = {DNA barcoding, synonyms, taxonomy}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.1059.70085}, author = {Pohjoism{\"a}ki, Jaakko and Haarto, Antti} } @article {171, title = {Review of Fennoscandian species of Gimnomera Rondani (Diptera: Scathophagidae) with description of Gimnomera freyi sp. n. and Ozerovia subg. n.}, journal = {Entomologica fennica}, volume = {30}, year = {2019}, pages = {145{\textendash}158}, abstract = {

The Fennoscandian species ofthe genus Gimnomera Rondani, 1867 were studied and a new species, G. freyi, is described. Anew subgenus, Ozerovia, is established for Gimnomera albipila (Zetterstedt, 1846). Gimnomera albipila (Zetterstedt, 1846) is redescribed and a lectotype is designated for it. An identification key for the Fennoscandian species of Gimnomera is given.

}, doi = {10.33338/ef.87170}, author = {Engelmark, Roger and Haarto, Antti} } @article {169, title = {Lis{\"a}yksi{\"a} Suomen Diptera-faunaan vuoden 2014 j{\"a}lkeen [Additions on the Finnish Diptera fauna after 2014]}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

In this paper 107 species of Diptera are reported as new to the Finnish fauna and three of these, Spilogona improvisa Sorokina, 2018, Spilogona orthosurstyla Xue \& Tian, 1988 and Microprosopa paveli Ozerov \& Krivosheina, 2013, are also new to Europe. In addition, new findings for eight rare species are reported.

}, isbn = {978-952-5793-33-8}, url = {https://blogit.utu.fi/teks/wp-content/uploads/sites/74/2019/09/w_album_22.pdf}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Kakko, Iiro and Winqvist, Kaj} } @article {165, title = {Lejops vittatus (Meigen, 1822), Suomelle uusi kukkak{\"a}rp{\"a}nen (Diptera: Syrphidae). [Lejops vittatus (Meigen, 1822), a hoverfly new to the Finnish insect fauna (Diptera: Syrphidae)]}, journal = {Sahlbergia}, volume = {23[2017]}, year = {2018}, pages = {5{\textendash}7}, abstract = {

Three specimens of the rare hoverfly Lejops vittatus (Meigen, 1822) were found during the first days of July 2016 on a seashore meadow near the Hus\ö Zoological Station, \Åland, Finland. The species is new to Finland. L. vittatus is very local and mostly rare in Northern Europe, with less than twenty known localities\—mostly single specimen records\—in Sweden and Denmark. The flies were observed flying among clubrushes (Bolboschoenus sp., pr. B. maritimus) near the water margin of a grazed coastal meadow. The salinity of the Baltic Sea in this area is around 5-6 \‰ and tides are negligent. These records represent the hitherto northernmost occurences of Lejops vittatus. The presence of several specimens on potentially suitable breeding habitat suggests that the species has a local population on the \Åland Islands.

}, url = {http://www.luomus.fi/sites/default/files/sahlbergia/2017/sahlbergia_23_2_Kahanp\%C3\%A4\%C3\%A4_etal.pdf}, author = {Kahanp{\"a}{\"a}, Jere and Kakko, Iiro and Haarto, Antti} } @article {130, title = {Linnaemya bergstroemi n. sp. (Diptera: Tachinidae){\textemdash}a new parasitoid fly from the Finnish Lapland}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4059}, year = {2015}, pages = {581{\textendash}597}, abstract = {

A new tachinid species, Linnaemya bergstroemi n. sp., is described from the Finnish Lapland. The new species closely resembles the Nearctic species Linnaemya anthracina Thompson, but can be readily distinguished from it by the charac- ters described in this paper. The taxonomic placement of the two species is discussed in the light of morphological and CoI sequence similarities with Linnaemya Robineau-Desvoidy species in the subgenera Ophina Robineau-Desvoidy and Bonellimyia Townsend. Known aspects of the new species\’ biology and distribution are reviewed.

}, keywords = {Bonellimyia, COI, DNA barcodes, Ernestiini, Finland, Holarctic, Introduction, Linnaemyini, Ophina, Species diversity, Tachininae, Tachinini}, author = {Pohjoism{\"a}ki, Jaakko and Haarto, Antti} } @article {126, title = {Malaise-hy{\"o}nteispyynti Lapin suojelualueilla 2012{\textendash}2014}, journal = {Mets{\"a}hallituksen luonnonsuojelujulkaisuja, Sarja A}, volume = {221}, year = {2015}, pages = {1{\textendash}141}, abstract = {

During 2012-2014, the Parks {\&} Wildlife Finland (Mets\ähallitus, Lappi) performed biodiversity inventories of insects by using Malaise traps. Malaise traps are suitable for collecting low-flying insects in all habitats. A total of 85 traps were set in 24 conservation areas. The traps were placed on aapamires, springs, alpine wetlands and forested habitats. The average collecting effort was 103 days/trap. The following orders were identified from the traps: hemipterans (Hemiptera), bark lice (Psocoptera), caddisflies (Trichoptera), several true fly families (Diptera) and beetles (Coleoptera). Four thoroughly well-studied insect groups consisting of selected nematoceran families, hemipterans, chironomids and caddisflies, were identified from all sites in all three years. The identified material consisted of ca. 80000 specimens. The observed total number of species was 2011, of which 752 species were singletons (i.e. were identified only from one conservation area). Most of the encountered species were dipterans (1587), other groups yielded 424 species (Hemiptera 184, Coleoptera 122, Trichoptera 86, Psocoptera 29). During the survey, a total of 112 species were found for the first time from Finland. The material included 58 taxa that are still undescribed, that is, they lack a scientific name. Of these undescribed taxa a vast majority were dipterans (57), only one was a caddisfly. A total of 66 nationally red-listed species (DD, NT, VU, EN) were observed. T\örm\äoja conservation area in Savukoski was the most species rich site (811), but the trapping effort (1113 trapping days) was also the highest there. There was a positive correlation between trapping effort and observed species richness and also between observed species richness and the number of red-listed species. The correlations of species richness between the four thoroughly studied groups were either weakly positive or no correlation was found. According to the Mantel test, assemblage variation of these four groups was concordant. In northern areas the importance of dipterans is relatively high. In the future true flies should be more often used as a target group in biotic inventories. In general, inventories and mappings should include several taxonomic groups, or different guilds or groups that differ in their habitat requirements. The relatively high number of undescribed species indicates how poorly we know assemblages inhabiting conservation areas. This report is also an example of a productive co-operation between the administration (Parks {\&} Wildlife Finland) and entomologists.

}, keywords = {bark lice, beetles, biodiversity, caddisflies, hemipterans, insects, species inventory, true flies}, isbn = {9789522951434}, issn = {1799-537X}, url = {http://julkaisut.metsa.fi/assets/pdf/lp/Asarja/a221.pdf}, author = {Salmela, Jukka and Siivonen, Stefan and Dominiak, Patrycja and Haarto, Antti and Heller, Kai and Kanervo, Juhani and Martikainen, Petri and M{\"a}kil{\"a}, Matti and Paasivirta, Lauri and Rinne, Aki and Salokannel, Juha and S{\"o}derman, Guy and Vilkamaa, Pekka} } @article {118, title = {Checklist of Finnish Diptera published}, journal = {Tachinid Times}, year = {2015}, pages = {14-16}, chapter = {14}, author = {Pohjoism{\"a}ki, Jaakko and Haarto, Antti and Winqvist, Kaj and Kahanp{\"a}{\"a}, Jere} } @article {100, title = {Checklist of the families Scathophagidae, Fanniidae and Muscidae of Finland (Insecta, Diptera)}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {441}, year = {2014}, month = {2014/09//}, pages = {347 - 367}, abstract = {

A revised checklist of the Scathophagidae, Fanniidae and Muscidae recorded from Finland is presented. Phaonia amicula Villeneuve, 1922 is noted from Finland for the first time.

}, keywords = {biodiversity, diptera, faunistics, Finland, species list}, issn = {1313-2970}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.441.7142}, url = {http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4064}, author = {Kahanp{\"a}{\"a}, Jere and Haarto, Antti} } @article {83, title = {Checklist of the families Anisopodidae, Bibionidae, Canthyloscelididae, Mycetobiidae, Pachyneuridae and Scatopsidae (Diptera) of Finland}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {441}, year = {2014}, month = {2014/09//}, pages = {97 - 102}, abstract = {

A checklist of the families Anisopodidae, Bibionidae, Canthyloscelididae, Mycetobiidae, Pachyneuridae and Scatopsidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland. The Finnish species of these families were last listed in 1980. After that two species of Anisopodidae, four species of Bibionidae and six species of Scatopsidae have been added to the Finnish fauna and two species of Scatopsidae have been removed from the Finnish fauna.

}, keywords = {biodiversity, checklist, diptera, faunistics, Finland}, issn = {1313-2970}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.441.7358}, url = {http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4043}, author = {Haarto, Antti} } @article {84, title = {Checklist of the family Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) of Finland}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {441}, year = {2014}, month = {2014/09//}, pages = {325 - 332}, abstract = {

A checklist of the family Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) recorded from Finland.

}, keywords = {checklist, diptera, Finland, sphaeroceridae}, issn = {1313-297}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.441.7250}, url = {http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4061}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Kahanp{\"a}{\"a}, Jere} } @article {85, title = {Checklist of the family Syrphidae (Diptera) of Finland}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {441}, year = {2014}, month = {2014/09//}, pages = {233 - 249}, abstract = {

A checklist of the Syrphidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland. Three species of Syrphidae, Platycheirus modestus Ide, 1926, Cheilosia barovskii (Stackelberg, 1930) and Mallota tricolor Loew, 1871, are published as new to the Finnish fauna. P. modestus is also new to the Palaearctic.

}, keywords = {checklist, diptera, faunistics, Finland, Syrphidae}, issn = {1313-2970}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.441.7251}, url = {http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4052}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Kerppola, Sakari} } @article {82, title = {When mtDNA COI is misleading: congruent signal of ITS2 molecular marker and morphology for North European Melanostoma Schiner, 1860 (Diptera, Syrphidae)}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {431}, year = {2014}, month = {6/8/2014}, pages = {93{\textendash}134}, abstract = {

The northern European taxa of genus Melanostoma Schiner, 1860 (Syrphidae, Diptera) are revised. A longstanding question concerning the number of Melanostoma taxa occurring in northern Europe prompted us to contrast and compare their morphological and molecular variability. Particular uncertainty concerned the putative existence of a sibling species of Melanostoma mellinum, and the identity of the taxon Melanostoma dubium in northern Europe due to existence of morphologically similar dark forms of M. mellinum in the northern parts of its distributional range. Partial sequences of two DNA markers, the mitochondrial protein-coding gene cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI-3\&$\#$39;) and the nuclear second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) were analysed separately under parsimony. The obtained COI-3\&$\#$39;gene fragment showed taxon-specific haplotypes and haplotypes that were shared among the taxa. The ITS2 sequences presented genotypes unique to each species, and congruence with our independently established taxonomic entities. Based on congruent signal of the ITS2 sequences and study of morphological characters we establish the presence of four taxa in northern Europe: Melanostoma mellium (= M. dubium nec auctt., syn. n.), M. certum sp. n. (= M. dubium auctt.), M. mellarium stat. n. (= M. mellinum auctt. partim) and M. scalare. Lectotype designations were made for Musca mellina, Syrphus mellarius and Melanostoma mellinum var. melanatus. The following synonymies were established: Melanostoma mellarium = Melanostoma melanatum syn. n.; Melanostoma mellinum = Scaeva dubia syn. n., Melanostoma tschernovi syn. n., and Melanostoma clausseni syn. n. Morphological circumscriptions of the taxa and an identification key are presented.

}, keywords = {COI, ITS2, Melanostoma, taxonomy}, issn = {1313-2970}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.431.7207}, url = {http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/7207/}, author = {Haarto, Antti and St{\r a}hls, Gunilla} } @article {63, title = {Korppoon Ut{\"o}n hy{\"o}nteisist{\"a} ja muista el{\"a}imist{\"a}}, journal = {w-album}, volume = {13}, year = {2013}, pages = {3{\textendash}35}, abstract = {

Entomological Club of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Turku observed and collected information about insects in Ut\ö, Korppoo, between years 2005 and 2010. In the research 1504 species of insects and 9 species of other animals were listed and 8 of them were assessed to the category endangered EN, 14 species as vulnerable VU and 51 specias as near threatened NT. There were also found 7 species new to the Finnish fauna.

}, keywords = {local fauna, new to Finland}, url = {http://org.utu.fi/harrastus/TEKS/w-album/w_album_13.pdf}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Mukkala, Veli-Matti} } @article {56, title = {Muutoksia Suomen kaksisiipisfaunassa (Insecta: Diptera)}, journal = {w-album}, volume = {16}, year = {2014}, pages = {3-19}, abstract = {

In this paper 69 species of Diptera are reported as new to the Finnish fauna and one of these, Botanophila miniatura (Huckett, 1965), is also new to the Palearctic. New information about the biology of Hydrotaea basdeni Collin, 1939 is given. Three species are removed from the Finnish fauna.

}, url = {http://org.utu.fi/harrastus/TEKS/w-album/w_album_16.pdf}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Winqvist, Kaj} } @article {39, title = {Xanthogramma stackelbergi Violovitsh, 1975 ja muita t{\"a}ydennyksi{\"a} Suomen kukkak{\"a}rp{\"a}siin (Diptera, Syrphidae)}, journal = {w-album}, volume = {5}, year = {2008}, pages = {3-6}, url = {http://org.utu.fi/harrastus/TEKS/w-album/508.pdf}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Kerppola, Sakari} } @article {34, title = {Brachyopa zhelochovtsevi Mutin, 1998 Euroopasta ja muita lis{\"a}yksi{\"a} Suomen kukkak{\"a}rp{\"a}sfaunaan (Diptera, Syrphidae)}, journal = {w-album}, volume = {7}, year = {2009}, pages = { 3-11}, url = {http://org.utu.fi/harrastus/TEKS/w-album/709.pdf}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Kerppola, Sakari} } @article {Haarto, title = {Notes on Finnish Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) with description of female of Minilimosina tenera Rohacek, 1983}, journal = {Entomologica Fennica}, volume = {24}, year = {2013}, month = {18.12.2013}, pages = {228-233}, issn = {0785-8760}, url = {http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/entomolfennica/article/download/9385/6695}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Kahanp{\"a}{\"a}, Jere} } @article {Kahanpaa2013d, title = {Notes on Fanniidae (Diptera) of Finland, with a description of the female of Fannia stigi Rognes, 1982}, journal = {Entomologica Fennica}, volume = {24}, year = {2013}, pages = {179{\textendash}185}, abstract = {

This paper documents the presence of 20 species of Fanniidae in Finland. Fannia alpina Pont, 1970 and F. slovaca Gregor \& Rozko\šn\ý, 2005 are new to North Europe. Fannia barbata (Stein, 1892), F. lineata (Stein, 1892) and F. nigra Malloch, 1910 are removed from the Finnish checklist. The female of Fannia stigi Rognes, 1982 is described from a Finnish specimen caught together with a male. The total number of fanniid flies known from Finland is now 61.

}, author = {Kahanp{\"a}{\"a}, Jere and Haarto, Antti} } @article {14, title = {Description of Cheilosia naruska Haarto \& Kerppola spec. nov. from northern Europe (Diptera, Syrphidae)}, journal = {Volucella}, volume = {8}, year = {2007}, pages = {63-72}, keywords = {new species, Syrphidae}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Kerppola, Sakari and St{\r a}hls, Gunilla} } @article {13, title = {Abundance and diversity of human-biting flies (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae, Culicidae, Tabanidae, Simuliidae) around a nickel-copper smelter at Monchegorsk, northwestern Russia.}, journal = {J Vector Ecol}, volume = {30}, year = {2005}, month = {2005 Dec}, pages = {263-271}, abstract = {

In the summers of 2001 and 2002, we quantitatively sampled human-biting flies in twelve sites located 1.6 to 63 km from a large copper-nickel smelter at Monchegorsk on the Kola Peninsula, Russia. We collected 429 specimens of three species of Ceratopogonidae, 92 specimens of seven species of Culicidae, 76 specimens of seven species of Tabanidae, and 4,788 specimens of 19 species of Simuliidae. Culicoides chiropterus was for the first time reported from the Kola Peninsula. Catches of Culicidae and Simuliidae decreased near the smelter, presumably due to the combined action of toxicity of pollutants, pollution-induced forest damage, and decline in vertebrate density. An abundance of Ceratopogonidae and Tabanidae, the size of the most common black fly species, Simulium pusillum, and the diversity of all families did not change along the pollution gradient.

}, keywords = {Animals, Bites and Stings, Ceratopogonidae, Copper, Culicidae, diptera, Environmental Pollutants, Humans, Nickel, Population Density, Population Dynamics, Russia, Seasons, Simuliidae, Species Specificity}, issn = {1081-1710}, author = {Kozlov, M V and Brodskaya, N K and Haarto, Antti and Kuusela, K and Sch{\"a}fer, M and Zverev, V} } @article {9, title = {Checklist of Finnish Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae)}, journal = {Sahlbergia }, volume = {9}, year = {2004}, pages = {147-164}, chapter = {147}, keywords = {checklist, Syrphidae}, author = {Haarto, Antti and Kerppola, Sakari} }