Checklist of the Diptera superfamilies Tephritoidea and Sciomyzoidea of Finland (Insecta).

A revised checklist of the flies of superfamilies Tephritoidea and Sciomyzoidea of Finland is provided. The following families are covered: Eurygnathomyiidae, Lonchaeidae, Neottiophilidae, Pallopteridae, Piophilidae, Platystomatidae, Tephritidae, Ulidiidae (Tephritoidea); Coelopidae, Dryomyzidae, Heterocheilidae, Phaeomyiidae, Sciomyzidae, Sepsidae (Sciomyzoidea).

Introduction

With over 7800 known extant species (Pape et al. 2011), is one of the larger superfamilies. The nominotypical family of , the fruit flies (), includes over half of the currently known species in the superfamily. The highest diversity of tephritoids occurs in the tropics. Six of the nine extant tephritoid families have been found in Finland: no richardiid, ctenostylid or pyrgotid have been found in the country. The , and (plus ) form a well-defined, probably monophyletic group. The other tephritoid families are more basal in their phylogenetic position (Korneyev 1999). The exact relationships PageBreakbetween the families are far from settled and some authors exclude and from the superfamily (Wiegmann et al. 2011). Several subfamily schemes have been proposed for . The classification by Korneyev (2000) is adopted here. For , (with ) and we follow McAlpine (1981), Ozerov (2005) and Kameneva and Korneyev (2006) respectively. Norrbom et al. (1999) provide a catalogue of world tephritid names. The Finnish tephritoid flies were last listed by Winqvist and Kahanpää (2007). Hackman (1956) reviewed the of Eastern Fennoscandia. This paper is now somewhat outdated, but still valuable.

is a smaller superfamily with some 1150 described species (Pape et al. 2011). It includes two medium-sized families ( and ) and nine smaller families comprising at most 30 species. The millipede parasitoids of family are sometimes classified as a subfamily of . The coelopids and heterocheilids, with just one species each in Finland, are closely associated with stranded marine seaweed. The family placement of has been rather unstable: during the last 40 years it has been placed in , and or regarded as having a separate family status. Here we follow the recent world catalogue (Mathis 2011) and keep as a separate family. The family name is preoccupied by Railliet & Henry, 1915 in (Mathis 2011). This homonymy has not yet been resolved.

World catalogues have recently been published for (Mathis and McAlpine 2011) (Mathis and Sueyoshi 2011), (Mathis 2011), (Rozkošný 1995) and (Ozerov 2005). The Finnish sciomyzoid flies were last listed by Winqvist and Kahanpää (2007).

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Table 1.

Number of species in tephritoid and sciomyzoid families.

Family	Number of species in			Level of knowledge
	World (Pape et al. 2011)	Europe (Pape and Beuk 2013)	Finland
Tephridoidea:
Eurygnathomyiidae	1	1	1	good
Lonchaeidae	504	96	41–44	average
Neottiophilidae	4	2	2	average
Pallopteridae	70	22	13	good
Piophilidae	78	27	15	average
Platystomatidae	1162	21	2	good
Tephritidae	4712	267	69	average–good
Ulidiidae	675	106	16	good
Sciomyzoidea:
Coelopidae	35	3	1	average
Dryomyzidae	22	5	5	average
Heterocheilidae	2	1	1	average
Phaeomyiidae	3	3	2	good
Sciomyzidae	605	136	73–74	good
Sepsidae	340	48	32	good