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Checklist of the families Opetiidae and Platypezidae (Diptera) of Finland
expand article infoGunilla Stahls‡
‡ Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland

Corresponding author: Gunilla Stahls ( stahls@mappi.helsinki.fi )

Academic editor: Jere Kahanpää
© 2014 Gunilla Stahls.
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Citation: Stahls G (2014) Checklist of the families Opetiidae and Platypezidae (Diptera) of Finland. In: Kahanpaa J, Salmela J (Eds) Checklist of the Diptera of Finland. ZooKeys 441: 209-212. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.441.7639
ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0FD1FB6E-6B9B-4F42-B8F3-0FDEEA15AE44
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Abstract

A checklist of the Opetiidae and Platypezidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland.

Keywords

Checklist, Finland, Diptera , Opetiidae , Platypezidae

Introduction

Opetiidae and Platypezidae are small families of small-sized flies. Platypezidae are principally forest insects, and all known larvae develop in fungi. New host fungi records were recently reported in Reemer et al. (2014), Ståhls et al. (submitted) and Ståhls and Rättel (2013).

The Finnish species were last listed by Hackman (1980) and Chandler (2001). Chandler (2001) included one and 21 species of Opetiidae and Platypezidae, respectively. Ståhls and Kahanpää (2006), Winqvist (2011), Ståhls et al. (2014), Reemer et al. (2014) and Ståhls and Rättel (2014) added altogether 12 species of family Platypezidae. Bolopus furcatus was included in Hackman (1980) but not in Chandler (2001), Ståhls et al. (2012) reported the taxon from Finland again. Agathomyia (subfamily Callomyiinae) is the largest genus of the Platypezidae. A recent study reinstated two Agathomyia species from synonymy (A. boreella Zetterstedt and A. scutellaris Zetterstedt) and two species were described as new to science (Ståhls et al. submitted). The taxonomic status of A. dahlbomi (Zetterstedt), presently listed as synonym of A. elegantula (Zetterstedt), remains unclear. Callomyia elegans and Protoclythia modesta are only known from previous single records, their occurrence has not been verified with new findings.

Chandler and Shatalkin (1998) and Chandler (2001) provided keys to subfamilies, genera and species of adult Palaearctic Platypezidae, and key to genera of known early stages of Platypezidae. Ståhls et al. (submitted) provided a key to Northern European Agathomyia spp.

Number of species (Opetiidae, Platypezidae):

World: 102, 252 species (Pape et al. 2011)

Europe: 1, 46 species

Finland: 1, 38 species

Faunistic knowledge level in Finland: average

Checklist

suborder Brachycera Macquart, 1834

clade Eremoneura Lameere, 1906

clade Cyclorrhapha Brauer, 1863

infraorder Aschiza Becher, 1882

superfamily Phoroidea Curtis, 1833

OPETIIDAE Rondani, 1856

OPETIA Meigen, 1830

Opetia nigra Meigen, 1830

PLATYPEZIDAE Fallén, 1815

CALLOMYIINAE Rondani, 1841

AGATHOMYIA Verrall, 1901

Agathomyia alneti Ståhls & Rättel, in prep.

Agathomyia antennata (Zetterstedt, 1819)

Agathomyia boreella (Zetterstedt, 1838)

Agathomyia cinerea (Zetterstedt, 1852)

Agathomyia elegantula (Fallén, 1815)

= dahlbomi (Zetterstedt, 1838)

Agathomyia falleni (Zetterstedt, 1819)

Agathomyia lundbecki Chandler in Shatalkin, 1985

Agathomyia sexmaculata (von Roser, 1840)

Agathomyia scutellaris (Zetterstedt, 1838)

Agathomyia shatalkini Ståhls, in prep.

Agathomyia unicolor Oldenberg, 1928

Agathomyia vernalis Shatalkin, 1981

Agathomyia viduella (Zetterstedt, 1838)

Agathomyia wankowiczii (Schnabl, 1884)

Agathomyia woodella Chandler in Shatalkin, 1985

= elegantula auct. nec (Fallén, 1815)

Agathomyia zetterstedti (Wahlberg in Zetterstedt, 1844)

CALLOMYIA Meigen, 1804

Callomyia amoena Meigen, 1824

Callomyia elegans Meigen, 1804

= leptiformis (Fallén, 1810)

Callomyia krivosheinae Shatalkin, 1982

Callomyia speciosa Meigen, 1824

= humeralis Loew, 1869

MICROSANIINAE Enderlein, 1936

MICROSANIA Zetterstedt, 1837

Microsania capnophila Shatalkin, 1985

Microsania collarti Chandler, 2001

Microsania pallipes (Meigen, 1830)

Microsania pectipennis (Meigen, 1830)

= pectinipennis emend.

Microsania straeleni Collart, 1954

Microsania vrydaghi Collart, 1954

PLATYPEZINAE Fallén, 1815

BOLOPUS Enderlein, 1932

Bolopus furcatus (Fallén, 1826)

PARAPLATYPEZA Kessel & Maggioncalda, 1968

Paraplatypeza atra (Meigen, 1804)

Paraplatypeza bicincta (Szilády, 1941)

PLATYPEZA Meigen, 1803

Platypeza aterrima Walker, 1836

Platypeza consobrina Zetterstedt, 1844

Platypeza fasciata Meigen, 1804

Platypeza hirticeps Verrall, 1901

PLATYPEZINA Wahlgren, 1910

Platypezina connexa (Bohemann, 1858)

POLYPORIVORA Kessel & Maggioncalda, 1968

Polyporivora boletina (Fallén, 1815)

Polyporivora ornata (Meigen, 1838)

= infumata (Haliday, 1838)

Polyporivora picta (Meigen, 1830)

PROTOCLYTHIA Kessel, 1950

Protoclythia modesta (Zetterstedt, 1844)

SERI Kessel & Maggioncalda, 1966

Seri obscuripennis (Oldenberg, 1916)

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