Checklist of the leaf-mining flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) of Finland.

A checklist of the Agromyzidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland is presented. 279 (or 280) species are currently known from the country. Phytomyzalinguae Lundqvist, 1947 is recorded as new to Finland.

Introduction

The are called the leaf-miner or leaf-mining flies and not without reason, although a substantial fraction of the species feed as larvae on other parts of living plants. While is traditionally placed in the superfamily , its exact relationships with other acalyptrate are poorly understood (see for example Winkler et al. 2010).

Two subfamilies are recognised within the leaf-mining flies: and . Both are now recognised as natural groups (Dempewolf 2005, Scheffer et al. 2007). Unfortunately the genera are not as well defined: at least PageBreak, and are paraphyletic in DNA sequence analyses (see Scheffer et al. 2007). The same studies and Winkler et al. (2009) suggest that consists of at least two separate groups of species within , and (which is given a status of a subgenus of by Winkler et al. (2009)) also needs re-evaluation. For the purposes of this checklist, a conservative approach is adopted with and as separate genera.

Richard Frey was the first Finnish dipterist to study the agromyzid fauna of the country in detail (Frey 1937, 1946). L. Tiensuu and E. Thuneberg continued Frey’s work but most of their work remained unpublished until Nowakowski (1967) and Spencer (1976) reviewed the major Finnish agromyzid collections. Spencer’s book remains the primary identification tool for North European . Interest in Finnish agromyzids has remained sporadic. The Finnish species were last listed by Hackman (1980).

Number of species:

World: 3004 spp. (M. Černý & M. von Tschirnhaus, pers. comm., March 2014)

Europe: 914 species (von Tschirnhaus, pers. comm., March 2014)

Finland: 279–280 species

Faunistic knowledge level in Finland: average

Checklist

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