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Checklist of the empidoidea of Finland (insecta, diptera).

Abstract

An updated checklist of the Atelestidae, Brachystomatidae, Dolichopodidae, Empididae and Hybotidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland is presented. The genera with uncertain placement within superfamily Empidoidea (= the Iteaphila group) are also included in this paper.

Entities: Chemical Disease Species

Keywords: Atelestidae; Brachystomatidae; Checklist; Diptera; Dolichopodidae; Empididae; Finland; Hybotidae

Year: 2014 PMID： 25337016 PMCID： PMC4200456 DOI： 10.3897/zookeys.441.7154

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Zookeys ISSN： 1313-2970 Impact factor: 1.546

Introduction

(dance flies and long-legged flies) is one of the most diverse lineages of with some 13,000 species currently recognized worldwide (Pape et al. 2011) and many more still undescribed. The superfamily is generally accepted as monophyletic, but its subdivision into families, subfamilies and tribes is still being debated. The families , , and were traditionally all included in PageBreaksensu lato. Chvála (1983) split the empidids into five families: sensu stricto, , , and . Sinclair and Cumming (2006) analyzed the whole superfamily , elevated to a full family and transferred to the long-legged flies (). Two of the Finnish genera, Becker and Zetterstedt, remain unassigned on family level (Sinclair and Cumming 2006, Shamshev and Sinclair 2009). The classification proposed by Sinclair and Cumming (2006) is adopted for this checklist. The world fauna of the has recently been catalogued by Yang et al. (2006, 2007). The Finnish species were last listed by Kahanpää and Winqvist (2005) for , , and (plus ) and by Kahanpää and Grichanov (2004) for . Two updates to the dolichopodid checklist have since been published (Kahanpää 2006, 2013). Number of species by family.

Checklist

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Excluded species

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Notes

Table 1.

Number of species by family.

Family	Number of species in			Level of knowledge
Family	World (Pape et al. 2011)	Europe	Finland	Level of knowledge
Atelestidae	11	4	2	average
Brachystomatidae	147	13	4	average
Dolichopodidae	7235	790	260	good
Hybotidae	1972	442	143–144	average
Empididae	3049	803	175	average

2 in total

1. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013).

Authors: Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Journal: Zootaxa Date: 2013 Impact factor: 1.091

2. A second update to the checklist of Finnish long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a re-evaluation of the status of Hydrophoruscallosoma Frey, 1915.

Authors: Jere Kahanpää
Journal: Biodivers Data J Date: 2013-10-28

2 in total

1 in total

1. A revision of the Nearctic species of Liancalus Loew (Diptera, Dolichopodidae).

Authors: Justin B Runyon; Richard L Hurley
Journal: Zookeys Date: 2015-02-23 Impact factor: 1.546

1 in total