01369nas a2200181 4500008004100000022001400041245013500055210006900190260001600259300000800275490000700283520076100290100001901051700002001070700002601090700002501116856004601141 2021 eng d a2075-445000aA Peculiar New Genus of Bibionomorpha (Diptera) with Brachycera-Like Modification of Antennae from Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar0 aPeculiar New Genus of Bibionomorpha Diptera with BrachyceraLike  cApr-20-2021 a3640 v123 a

A new fossil genus of Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha), Burmahesperinus gen. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, is described and illustrated (type species Burmahesperinus antennatus sp. nov., the other two species included are B. conicus sp. nov. and B. pedicellatus sp. nov.). The new genus is tentatively placed in a new subfamily, Burmahesperininae subfam. nov. of the family Bibionidae. Its possible phylogenetic position is briefly discussed. The new genus, as well as the subfamily, possesses the wing venation similar to the recent genus Hesperinus Walker, 1848, in combination with Brachycera-like modification of both the male and female antenna and the overall habitus typical of fungus gnats (Sciaroidea).

1 aŠevčík, Jan1 aSkartveit, John1 aKrzemiński, Wiesław1 aSkibińska, Kornelia uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects1204036401646nas a2200169 4500008004100000245011700041210006900158260001600227300001100243490000800254520105000262100001901312700002401331700002101355700001801376856008201394 2020 eng d00aFive new Palaearctic species of Docosia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with updated molecular phylogeny of the genus0 aFive new Palaearctic species of Docosia Diptera Mycetophilidae w cMay-09-2021 a3 - 260 v7173 a

A new phylogenetic hypothesis is proposed for the relationships among the species within the genus Docosia Winnertz, 1863, based on a combined analysis of five DNA markers (28S, ITS2, COI, COII and CytB). Five new species are described, Docosia anatolica Ševčík sp. nov. from Turkey, D. japonica Kurina sp. nov. from Japan, D. peloponnensis Ševčík sp. nov. from Greece, D. svanetica Kurina sp. nov. from Caucasus and D. polyspina Kurina sp. nov. from the Russian Far East. New country records of the following species are presented: D. diutina Plassmann, 1996 (Turkey), D. flavicoxa Strobl, 1900 (Georgia), D. gilvipes (Haliday in Walker, 1856) (Georgia), D. kerkini Kurina & Ševčík, 2011 (Bulgaria), D. moravica Landrock, 1916 (Georgia), D. pannonica Lastovka & Ševčík 2006 (Georgia) and D. rameli Kurina & Ševčík, 2011 (Slovakia).

1 aŠevčík, Jan1 aBurdíková, Nikola1 aKaspřák, David1 aKurina, Olavi uhttps://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/1095/279302015nas a2200157 4500008004100000245017700041210006900218260001600287300000800303490000700311520138200318100001901700700002601719700002501745856008701770 2020 eng d00aIntriguing and Beautiful: Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar Represents a New Subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)0 aIntriguing and Beautiful Adamacrocera adami gen et sp nov from t cJan-09-2020 a5520 v113 a

Simple Summary: The Upper Cretaceous amber of Myanmar (also known as Burmese amber) is almost 100 Mya old and represents invaluable source of information about the evolution of life in the late Mesozoic. Various groups of fossil flies (Diptera) belong to the most abundant insects found in these fossil resins indicating that it was the Mesozoic when the early evolution and radiation of Diptera took place. Here we describe a remarkable fossil fly which combines characters of various other related flies from different families (both extant and fossil) in a very unusual way. This new genus is tentatively placed in the family Keroplatidae (the so called predaceous fungus gnats) pending and stimulating further research into the evolution of lower Diptera.

Abstract: A new fossil genus and species of Keroplatidae (Diptera, Bibionomorpha, Sciaroidea), Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber is described and illustrated. Based on morphological evidence, it is placed in a new subfamily Adamacrocerinae subfam. nov. The new genus, as well as the subfamily, possesses the wing venation characteristic of the genera of some Sciaroidea incertae sedis, as well as that of the fossil families Archizelmiridae, Antefungivoridae and Mesosciophilidae, in combination with macrocerine‐like habitus and male terminalia.

1 aŠevčík, Jan1 aKrzemiński, Wiesław1 aSkibińska, Kornelia uhttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/9/552https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/9/552/pdf02214nas a2200193 4500008004100000245018000041210006900221300000900290490000700299520151900306100002001825700002001845700002401865700002501889700002501914700001801939700001901957856004401976 2020 eng d00aHidden in Plain Sight: Comprehensive Molecular Phylogeny of Keroplatidae and Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera) Reveals Parallel Evolution and Leads to a Revised Family Classification0 aHidden in Plain Sight Comprehensive Molecular Phylogeny of Kerop a1-160 v113 a

We provide the first molecular phylogeny of Keroplatidae and Lygistorrhinidae, families of fungus gnats (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea). Phylogenies reconstructed by Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian methods, based on four nuclear and four mitochondrial gene markers (5106 base pairs) sequenced for 75 genera and 105 species, show Keroplatidae as monophyletic only with the family Lygistorrhinidae included, herewith treated as the subfamily Lygistorrhininae stat. nov. The subfamily Arachnocampinae is retained in the family, although lowering its overall support. An early branching clade, comprising species of Platyura Meigen, 1803 and Paleoplatyura melanderi Fisher, 1941, forms subfamily Platyurinae Loew, 1850 stat. nov. The subfamilies Sciarokeroplatinae and Macrocerinae grouped together with three genera considered here as Keroplatidae incertae sedis. Subfamily Lygistorrhininae forms a sister clade to subfamily Keroplatinae, both retained monophyletic with high support. The traditional division of the subfamily Keroplatinae into the tribes Orfeliini and Keroplatini appears as outdated, resting largely on adaptive characters prone to parallel evolution. We find support for an alternative tribe corresponding to the Cloeophoromyia–Asindulum genus group, but a tribal reclassification of the Keroplatinae is left for future studies. The genus Heteropterna Skuse, 1888 is considered as identical with Ctenoceridion Matile, 1972 syn. nov.

1 aMantič, Michal1 aSikora, Tomáš1 aBurdíková, Nikola1 aBlagoderov, Vladimir1 aKjærandsen, Jostein1 aKurina, Olavi1 aŠevčík, Jan uhttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/6/34800720nas a2200193 4500008004100000022001400041245016800055210006900223260001600292300001200308490000700320100002400327700002500351700002600376700002100402700002200423700001900445856006200464 2019 eng d a0947-574500aMolecular phylogeny of the Paleogene fungus gnat tribe Exechiini (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) revisited: Monophyly of genera established and rapid radiation confirmed0 aMolecular phylogeny of the Paleogene fungus gnat tribe Exechiini cApr-04-2019 a806-8210 v571 aBurdíková, Nikola1 aKjærandsen, Jostein1 aLindemann, Jon, Peder1 aKaspřák, David1 aTóthová, Andrea1 aŠevčík, Jan uhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jzs.1228703617nas a2200133 4500008004100000245014900041210006900190300001500259490001000274520304200284100002203326700001903348856011603367 2019 eng d00aCabamofa orientalis sp. nov. from Thailand, congeneric with C. mira Jaschhof from Costa Rica (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea incertae sedis)0 aCabamofa orientalis sp nov from Thailand congeneric with C mira  a392–394 0 v 45763 a

The genus Cabamofa, previously containing only C. mira from Costa Rica (Jaschhof 2005), is shown here to have a second species in Thailand, which is described and named C. orientalis sp. nov. The new species is known from a single male collected by the TIGER Project (Thailand Inventory Group for Entomological Research), a mass-sampling program to  inventory  insect  diversity  in  Southeast  Asia  (Plant  et  al.  2011;  http://sharkeylab.org/tiger,  accessed  14  December  2018). As the circumstances of finding indicate, C. orientalis is a decidedly rare species, an attribute applying to perhaps one third of all tropical arthropods (Lim et al. 2012) and most Sciaroidea incertae sedis (Jaschhof 2017), including the Costa Rican C. mira. The latter species was originally described from two females, which were Malaise trapped in 2003 in lowland rain forest (Jaschhof 2005), while a conspecific male, a museum specimen collected in 1922 in an unknown habitat, was detected and described subsequently (Amorim & Rindal 2007). Cabamofa is one of nearly 20 sciaroid genera  whose  family  affiliation  has  not  yet  been  resolved  (Jaschhof  2017),  but  there  is  morphological  evidence  suggesting its close affinity to other Sciaroidea incertae sedis, such as Rogambara Jaschhof, 2005, Ohakunea Tonnoir & Edwards,  1927,  and  Colonomyia  Colless,  1963.  These  four  genera  together  form  the  Ohakunea  group  of  Jaschhof  (2005), or the Ohakuneinae (as a subfamily of the broadly conceived family Rangomaramidae) of Amorim & Rindal (2007). Recent molecular work (Ševčík et al. 2016, Kaspřák et al. 2019) suggests a more distant phylogenetic position of Ohakunea to other Sciaroidea incertae sedis. The obvious conflict here between morphological and molecular evidence is stimulating fresh interest in the “incertae sedis issue”, as proven by the present contribution. The morphology of C. orientalis  provides  no  new  clues  as  to  the  systematic  position  of  Cabamofa,  or  the  Ohakunea  group,  but  reveals  characters that were previously not known to occur in Cabamofa. The delimitation of this genus is briefly reviewed below. Our finding of C. orientalis extends the geographic distribution of Cabamofa from the New World to the Old World (Oriental) tropics, which consorts with the disjunct (Neotropical-Australasian) areas found in both Colonomyia and Ohakunea. Morphological terminology used here is in accordance with that by Cumming & Wood (2017).

1 aJaschhof, Mathias1 aŠevčík, Jan uhttps://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4576.2https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4576.2.1201196nas a2200133 4500008004100000245014500041210006900186300001400255490000700269520069800276100002000974700001900994856004901013 2017 eng d00aMacrocera rohaceki sp. nov. and other interesting records of Keroplatidae (Diptera) from southern and central Europe, with DNA sequence data0 aMacrocera rohaceki sp nov and other interesting records of Kerop a751–7640 v573 a

A new species of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea), Macrocera rohaceki sp. nov., is described from the island of Mallorca (Spain). A further remarkable species, Paleoplatyura johnsoni Johannsen, 1910, hitherto only known from the Nearctic Region, is recorded from Sicily (Italy). New records of Isoneuromyia czernyi (Strobl, 1909) and I. pseudochracea (Landrock, 1925) from Slovakia are provided, including figures of the male terminalia. Their relationships to the widely distributed European species, I. semirufa (Meigen, 1818), are reconstructed using three mitochondrial DNA markers (12S, COI, cytb). A key to the European species of Isoneuromyia Brunetti, 1912 is also provided.

1 aMantič, Michal1 aŠevčík, Jan uhttps://sciaroidea.myspecies.info/node/5665300555nas a2200157 4500008004100000022001400041245011500055210006900170260001500239300001300254490000700267100001800274700002000292700001900312856006600331 2017 eng d a1681-555600aA remarkable new genus of Keroplatidae (Insecta, Diptera) from the Afrotropical region, with DNA sequence data0 aremarkable new genus of Keroplatidae Insecta Diptera from the Af c11/05/2017 a93 - 1050 v581 aKurina, Olavi1 aMantič, Michal1 aŠevčík, Jan uhttp://africaninvertebrates.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1265500673nas a2200145 4500008004100000245010400041210006900145300001400214490000700228100001800235700002100253700002800274700001900302856020600321 2016 eng d00aTwo new Oriental species of Paramanota Tuomikoski (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with DNA sequence data0 aTwo new Oriental species of Paramanota Tuomikoski Diptera Myceto a360–3670 v641 aHippa, Heikki1 aKaspřák, David1 aKahar, Siti, Rafhiah Ha1 aŠevčík, Jan uhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Sevcik2/publication/311455719_Two_new_Oriental_species_of_Paramanota_Tuomikoski_Diptera_Mycetophilidae_with_DNA_sequence_data/links/58486ab508aeda696825e5fa.pdf