@article {173, title = {Coelosynapha, a new genus of the subfamily Gnoristinae (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) with a circumpolar, Holarctic distribution}, journal = {Biodiversity Data Journal}, volume = {8}, year = {2020}, chapter = {e54834}, abstract = {

The subfamily Gnoristinae is one of the most diverse and taxonomically difficult subfamilies of Mycetophilidae, with new species and genera being described almost every year from various parts of the world. Through inventories of fungus gnats in the Nordic Region and Russia, a genus and species new to science was discovered, yet with links back to an illustration made by the late French entomologist Lo\ïc Matile in the 1980s. DNA barcoding aligned it with yet another species new to science, distributed across Canada and documented through The Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) by Paul D. N. Hebert and colleagues at the BOLD team. The new Holarctic genus, Coelosynapha gen. n. is described, consisting of two new species, the Palaearctic Coelosynapha loici sp. n. and the Nearctic Coelosynapha heberti sp. n. DNA-barcodes assign the two new species to distinctly separated (8.27\% p-distance) Barcode Index Numbers (BINs) which are most closely aligned to unidentified species of Mycetophilidae from South Australia and Costa Rica on BOLD. The new genus shows morphological characteristics in between the two Holarctic genera Coelosia Winnertz, 1864 and Synapha Meigen, 1818 and further shows affinity to the southern continents genus Austrosynapha Tonnoir, 1929. The Palaearctic Coelosynapha loici sp. n., for which habitat requirements are best documented, is largely restricted to pristine, old-growth conifer (mostly spruce, Picea abies ssp. obovata) forests within the boreal vegetation zone, although it is also recorded from hummock tundra along the Anadyr River in Far East Russia.

}, keywords = {Coelosynapha, DNA barcoding, Gnoristinae, Holarctic distribution, Mycetophilidae, new genus, new species, old-growth conifer forests}, doi = {10.3897/BDJ.8.e54834}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e54834}, author = {Kj{\ae}randsen, Jostein and Polevoi, Alexei and Salmela, Jukka} } @article {127, title = {Additions to the list of Finnish Bibionomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera)}, journal = {Biodiversity Data Journal}, volume = {3}, year = {2015}, pages = {1{\textendash}22}, abstract = {

A total of 12 gnat species are reported for the first time from Finland (3 Cecidomyiidae, 1 Keroplatidae, 8 Mycetophilidae), and the occurrence of Macrocera nigropicea Lundstr\öm in Finland is verified. All material was collected from the Finnish Lapland, mainly from the north boreal ecoregion. Two of the recorded species are likely to be pyrophilous, associated with forest fire sites. A photo of the ventral appendage of the gonocoxite of Brevicornu setigerum Zaitzev is provided for the first time. The male hypopygium of Mycetophila haruspica Plassmann is redescribed.

}, keywords = {Cecidomyiidae, fungus gnats, gall midges, Keroplatidae, Lestremiinae, Mycetophilidae, Porricondylinae}, issn = {1314-2828}, doi = {10.3897/BDJ.3.e5228}, url = {http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=5228}, author = {Salmela, Jukka and Kaunisto, Kari M} } @article {122, title = {Two new Neuratelia Rondani (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) species from Western Palaearctic: a case of limited congruence between morphology and DNA sequence data}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {496}, year = {2015}, pages = {105{\textendash}129}, abstract = {

Two new Mycetophilidae species, Neuratelia jabalmoussae sp. n. and Neuratelia salmelai sp. n. are described on the basis of material collected from Lebanon, Estonia and Finland. Detailed figures of male terminalia and photographs of general facies are provided along with discussions of their morphological distinction from sibling species. For the first time molecular characters are used to distinguish new fungus gnat species. Molecular analysis relies on cytochrome oxidase subunit one (COI) but has additionally been corroborated by information from the 28S and ITS2 regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Situations where morphological and molecular data provide conflicting evidence for species delimitation are discussed. A new country record from Georgia is provided for Neuratelia caucasica.

}, keywords = {28S, COI, ITS2, molecular analysis, Mycetophilidae, Neuratelia, new species, systematics, Western Palaearctic}, issn = {1313-2970}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.496.9315}, url = {http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=5115}, author = {Kurina, Olavi and {\~O}unap, Erki and P{\~o}ldmaa, Kadri} }