@article {140, title = {New and poorly known Palaearctic fungus gnats (Diptera, Sciaroidea)}, journal = {Biodiversity Data Journal}, volume = {5}, year = {2017}, month = {7/3/2017}, pages = {e11760}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

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.

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 \& Kolcs\ár sp.n., B. norokorpii Salmela \& Kolcs\ár 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.

}, keywords = {biodiversity, Boreal zone, boreo-alpine species, DNA barcoding, taxonomy}, doi = {doi.org/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 {133, title = {New and poorly known Holarctic species of Boletina Staeger, 1840 (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)}, journal = {Biodiversity Data Journal}, volume = {4}, year = {2016}, month = {01/2016}, pages = {1{\textendash}28}, abstract = {

The genus Boletina is a species rich group of fungus gnats. Members of the genus are mainly known from temperate, boreal and arctic biomes. Phylogeny of the genus is still poorly resolved, dozens of species are insufficiently described and undescribed species are often discovered, especially from samples taken from the boreal zone. Four new species are described. Boletina valteri Salmela sp.n. (Finland), Boletina kullervoi Salmela sp.n. (Finland), B. hyperborea Salmela sp.n. (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Canada) and B. nuortti Salmela sp.n. (Finland). Boletina arctica Holmgren is redescribed and reported for the first time from the Canadian high arctic zone. Boletina borealis Zetterstedt and B. birulai Lundstr\öm are reported for the first time from Canada. Boletina subnitidula Sasakawa (syn. n.) is proposed as a junior synonym of B. pallidula Edwards.

}, keywords = {arctic zone, Boreal zone, fungus gnats, species richness, taxonomy}, issn = {1314-2828}, doi = {10.3897/BDJ.4.e7218}, url = {http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7218}, author = {Salmela, Jukka and Suuronen, Anna and Kaunisto, Kari M} } @article {128, title = {A new Neoplatyura Malloch from Finland (Diptera, Keroplatidae)}, journal = {Biodiversity Data Journal}, volume = {2}, year = {2014}, month = {sep}, pages = {1{\textendash}10}, abstract = {

The genus Neoplatyura Malloch is globally represented by 50 species, of which four are European species. In this article a new European Neoplatyura from Finland is described. The new species, Neoplatyura noorae Salmela, sp. n. is a dark brown species with tibial bristles arranged in rows. The new species is here reported from seven localities in Finnish Lapland. Based on available data, the new species occurs in mires, especially in calcareous rich fens.

}, keywords = {Boreal zone, Finland, fungus gnats, Lapland, mires}, issn = {1314-2828}, doi = {10.3897/BDJ.2.e1323}, url = {http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1323}, author = {Salmela, Jukka and Suuronen, Anna} }