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The discovery of the Holarctic tachinid genus Solieria Robineau-Desvoidy,1849, in Iran led to the identification of a new species to science, which is described here as Solieria variabilis sp. nov. It can be separated from other related species by the absence of discal setae on abdominal tergites, lack of proclinate and latero-reclinate orbital set...
Klaus Standfuss passed away in April 2024 at the age of 87. In his professional life, Professor Standfuss worked as a physician and university lecturer in Cologne and Dortmund. Even as an active doctor and especially as a pensioner with diverse scientific interests, he was involved for decades in the ecological reorganisation of his city garden in...
On the current occurrence of the species of the genus Kirbya ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY (Diptera, Tachinidae) in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany).
Abstract
The genus Kirbya ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY was previously only represented in the region by Kirbya unicolor VILLENEUVE, 1927. This species, endemic to Brandenburg, was only collected near Frankfurt an der Oder...
During the 38th meeting of
the German Diptera Study Group (AK
Diptera) from June 16th to 18th, 2023, Diptera were recorded at three locations in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park (Lower Saxony). A total of 463 species from
62 families were collected. Of these, 78 species (17 %) are first records for Lower
Saxony
Three hundred and twenty-two species of tachinid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) have so far been found in the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg, which corresponds to almost two-thirds of all the species known from Germany. In an overview each confirmed species is listed in the chronological order of the literature references that contain inform...
Minthodes oramanatae Gilasian & Ziegler sp. nov. is described as new to
science from western province of Kermanshah, Iran. This species is separated from other
Minthodes species by its shiny black abdomen, narrow frons, long postpedicel, presence
of basal scutellar marginal setae, short petiole of wing cell r4+5 and absence of marginal
setae on abd...
The fauna of the family Tachinidae (Diptera) was studied in the Haftad-
Qolleh Protected Area, Markazi province, Iran. A total of 86 species belonging to 67
genera have been collected of which 46 species within 19 genera are newly recorded
from Iran. The species Magripa persica Gilasian & Ziegler sp. nov. is described as new to
science. Diagnostic...
The fauna of the family Tachinidae (Diptera) was studied in the HaftadQolleh
Protected Area, Markazi province, Iran. A total of 86 species belonging to 67 genera have been collected of which 46 species within 19 genera are newly recorded from Iran. The
species Magripa persica Gilasian & Ziegler sp. nov. is described as new to science. Diagnostic ch...
Despite its importance for biological control of heteropteran pests (Hemiptera) and remarkable features, the taxonomy of the genus Trichopoda remained confusing for a long time. Due to a recent taxonomic revision, new information about its species real distribution and host records were found out. An invasive species of the genus has been recorded...
During the annual meeting of the Diptera Working Group (AK Diptera) from 31 May to 2 June 2019, Diptera (two-winged flies) were collected at several localities in and around Tuttlingen-Möhringen, Germany (federal state of Baden-Württemberg). A total of 218 Diptera species from 34 families were recorded from three selected and two nearby localities...
Susamyia Ziegler & Gilasian gen. nov. and its type species Susamyia mira Ziegler & Gilasian gen. et sp. nov. are described from southwestern Karkheh National Park and southeastern Jazmourian Wetland of Iran. Drawings of terminalia and head of the male as well as images of habitus, head and egg are provided. Susamyia gen. nov. is incorporated into t...
During the 35th meeting of the German Diptera working group (AK DIPTE RA) from June 8th to 10th, 2018, Diptera were
recorded at three locations in the Biosphere Reserve ‘Niedersächsische Elbtalaue’ and in the surroundings of the Youth Hostel
Hitzacker. A total of 383 species from 47 families were collected. Of these, 47 species (12 %) are first rec...
Hermann Loew (1807–1879), a Prussian teacher and natural scientist in the town Posen (now Poznań, Poland), who is known primarily as a dipterologist, had an opportunity to travel to the Ottoman Empire. To be able to do so, Loew was fortunate enough to be allowed to suspend his teaching for a total of 13 months. From the summer of 1841 to the summer...
Collections of selected groups of insects have been made with a sweep net over a number of years and at all seasons close to the village of Platania in the south of the Pilion peninsula in Thessaly (Greece). This eumediterranean study area is a cultivated landscape dominated by olive tree plantations. Small areas of macchia and phrygana still survi...
Es werden für Loewia erecta Bergström (Diptera, Tachinidae) erstmals Nachweise für die Bundesländer Berlin und Brandenburg in Deutschland sowie für Lettland und Russland veröffentlicht. Weitere Fundmeldungen aus Polen und Finnland ergänzen die bisher bekannte Verbreitung. Loewia erecta wurde erst 2007 aus Fennoskandien und Polen beschrieben.
The Palaearctic genus Synamphichaeta Villeneuve, 1936 is reviewed and the new species Synamphichaeta hirtivena
Gilasian & Ziegler, sp. nov. is described from Iran. Illustrations of the terminalia and head of the male are provided,
together with habitus photos of both sexes. An identification key to the two known species of Synamphichaeta is present...
Here we report on collaborative expeditions run by ISU (Ilia State University, Tbilisi), ZFMK (Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn) and external taxonomists in Georgia in 2018 and 2019 as part of the renewed close cooperation between Germany and Caucasus countries aiming at the exploration of biodiversity in the Caucasus region. Th...
Type material of thick-headed flies (Diptera, Conopidae) in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (ZMHB) is documented. The entire collection holds primary type material (i.e. holotypes, lectotypes, syntypes) of 73 species. Five Conops species with previously unknown subgenus belong to the subgenus Asiconops: C. frontosus Kröber, 1916;...
The new species Bampura breviaristata Gilasian & Ziegler sp. nov. is described from Karkheh National Park, Khuzestan,
Iran. A first full description of the male of Bampura angustigena Tschorsnig and an identification key to both known species
of Bampura Tschorsnig are provided. The male terminalia of the examined species of the genera Amnonia Kugle...
Stevenia gilasiani Ziegler, Gisondi & Cerretti, sp. nov. from western Iran is described and illustrated. Cladistic arguments are provided in order to give an explicit genus level affiliation for the new species. Stevenia gilasiani sp. nov. is the first rhinophorid characterized by male ventral sexual-patches on abdominal tergites 3, 4 and 5 and ste...
The genus Trichactia Stein, 1924 (Diptera: Tachinidae) is newly recorded from Iran and its Palaearctic species are reviewed.
The new species Trichactia meridiana Ziegler & Gilasian, sp. nov. is described from Iran and the East Mediterranean.
An identification key to the three known Palaearctic species of Trichactia, photographs of all species and
i...
The genus Trichactia Stein, 1924 (Diptera: Tachinidae) is newly recorded from Iran and its Palaearctic species are reviewed.
The new species Trichactia meridiana Ziegler & Gilasian, sp. nov. is described from Iran and the East Mediterranean.
An identification key to the three known Palaearctic species of Trichactia, photographs of all species and
i...
In a taxonomic study of the subfamily Phasiinae (Diptera: Tachinidae), seven species and the three genera Opesia Robineau-Desvoidy, Subclytia Pandellé and Xysta Meigen are recorded for the first time from Iran. The diagnostic characters, distributional data along with the photographs of species are presented. Taxonomical positions of the genera and...
Alongside Dinera carinifrons (Fallén, 1817), the occurrence of a second species in Europe of the Dinera carinifrons species complex has been established. This is the East Palaearctic Dinera fuscata Zhang & Shima, 2006 which occurs as a distinct West Palaearctic subspecies and which is described here as Dinera fuscata occidentalis ssp. nov. Ziegler....
A review is given of the Tachinidae collected in the modern province of Bozen-South Tyrol and in the present-day Stilfserjoch National Park during the period from 1860 to 1960. The published literature was evaluated and material from extant collections was examined. On the basis of these revised collections, the published data were critically check...
This chapter brings together all the available information concerning the relevant publications and the collections made during the period 1860 to 1960, so that the results of the "Diptera Stelviana" can be evaluated within a historical context. As a prerequisite for this, researches were carried out into the history of dipterology in the South Tyr...
Up until now, only one species of Chrysosomopsis Townsend, 1916, was known from the western Palaearctic Region: the type species C. aurata (Fallén, 1820). A second species, C. macrocercus sp. nov., is described from Austria, northern Italy, eastern Switzerland, and the Altai mountains in Siberia. The locus typicus is the Tartscher Valley south of t...
In the Stilfserjoch National Park of South Tyrol (Italian Alps), tachinid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) were collected with Malaise traps between May and October 2005 at five different altitudes of the parc. Altogether 177 species (7,043 specimens) were recorded, representing nearly half of the South Tyrol fauna and including 36 species new to South...
In this chapter, all the historical and recent data on the Tachinidae of the study area and of the SouthTyrol which have been worked out in the previous chapters of this volume are brought together and are supplemented with numerous personal and previously unpublished data of specimens collected in the years 2004 to 2009. In the “Species List” the...
In this second volume of the series “Diptera Stelviana”, further results are published from the survey of the Diptera (flies and midges) in the South Tyrol part of the Stilfserjoch National Park (Italian Alps). Five Malaise traps were used, which were set up during the vegetative period of 2005 along a transect from the submontane to the alpine alt...
Minthodes susae Gilasian & Ziegler sp. nov. (Diptera: Tachinidae), from southwestern Iran, is described and illustrated, and compared with M. brevipennis (Brauer & Bergenstamm) from Turkey. A lectotype is recognised for Pseudomintho brevipennis Brauer & Bergenstamm (currently a species of Minthodes) and its designation is attributed to Mesnil. Mint...
The fauna of the subfamily Phasiinae (Diptera: Tachinidae) in northwestern Iran was studied from 2009 to 2014. A total of 4 tribes, 14 genera and 24 species of Phasiinae were recorded. The genus Hemyda (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) and the species Clytiomya sola (Rondani, 1861), Cistogaster mesnili (Zimin, 1966), Clairvillia pninae (Kugler, 1971), Hemy...
Two species of tachinid flies are described as new to science: Germaria caelestis spec. nov. (Tian Shan Mountain Range,
Kyrgyzstan) and G. expectata spec. nov. (Alai Mountain Range, Kyrgyzstan, and Kunlun Mountain Range, China). A key to
the six Central Asian species of Germaria is provided and data on their distribution and hosts are given. Germar...
A new species of the Afrotropical endemic rhinophorid genus Ventrops is described, illustrated and compared with congeners.
In order to identify the parasitic flies of the subfamily Dexiinae (Diptera: Tachinidae) in northwest Iran, a survey was conducted during the period between 2009 and 2013. A total of 17 species belonging to 14 genera in three tribes was identified. Of these, 14 species and ten genera are recorded for the first time from Iran. Collection data for al...
Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all extant multicellular European terrestrial and freshwater animals and their geographical distribution at the level of countries and major islands (east of the Urals and excluding the Caucasus region). The Fauna Europaea project compri...
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Vera Andreevna Richter short obituary
Fauna Europaea Guidelines for Group Coordinators and Taxonomic Specialists
A study is presented of the Iranian species of the genus Cylindromyia Meigen (Diptera: Tachinidae). Two of the species, Cylindromyia uncinata Gilasian, Talebi & Ziegler spec. nov. and Cylindromyia vallicola Ziegler & Gilasian spec. nov., have been recognised as new to science and are described for the first time. Furthermore, the hitherto unknown m...
Record of the North American sunflower maggot Strauzia longipennis (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the year 2008 in Berlin (Germany).
A report is given on parasitic flies of the subfamiliy Tachininae (Diptera: Tachinidae) collected in the course of fieldwork in northwestern Iran from 2009 to 2013. A total of 15 species in 9 genera and 7 tribes is recorded. Of these, the three genera Nowickia WACHTL, 1894, Triarthria STEPHENS, 1829, and Zophomyia MACQUART, 1835 and the 8 species M...
The Goldshield Fly Phasia aurigera (Egger, 1860) has been chosen as the „Insect of the Year 2014“ in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This tachinid species, which parasitises shieldbugs, is introduced and a short review of its biology is given. The localities for its occurrence in these three countries is given, and its recent expansionist tendenc...
In the course of the study of the tribe Leucostomatini (Dip.: Tachinidae: Phasiinae) in Iran, 11 species were collected and identified. The four genera Dionaea Robineau-Desvoidy, Eulabidogaster Belanovsky, Labigastera Macquart and Weberia Robineau-Desvoidy, as well as the eight species Dionaea aurifrons (Meigen), Eulabidogaster setifacies (Rondani)...
Data are provided on the distribution of 115 species of Tachinidae (Diptera) from the Sierra Nevada and its environs, based on literature and a few new unpublished records.
Molecular phylogenetic and traditional morphometric methods were applied to examine six Palaearctic taxa of the taxonomically difficult tachinid fly genus Dinera Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae), with particular reference to D. carinifrons (Fallén) and D. fuscata Zhang and Shima. Results of a phylogenetic analysis based on the mitochondrial...
A review of the genus Phasia Latreille in Iran is given. An identification key to the six Iranian species of Phasia and illustrations of their male and female terminalia are presented. The species Phasia obesa (Fabricius) and P. pusilla Meigen are recorded for the first time from Iran.
The genus Phania (Diptera: Tachinidae: Phasiinae) was studied in Iran. Materials for this study were collected in Iran during 1997–2011 using a standard sweep net and Malaise traps. Two species, namely Phania funesta (Meigen) and P. curvicauda (Fallén), were newly recorded in Iran. The third Iranian species, P. rufomaculata Gilasian & Ziegler sp. n...
The range of five species of Tachinidae (subfamily Phasiinae) which parasitise true bugs (Heteroptera) in Germany is documented by means of a survey of historical and current collecting data. Four of these species show recent expansions in their range. The discovery of Leucostoma abbreviatum HERTING, 1971, near Templin are the first records for thi...
A list of 36 selected species of tachinid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) from Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) is given, together with their collection data and relevant comments. Material from the LOEW collection, which formed the basis for the oldest publications on Diptera from Saxony-Anhalt (LOEW 1857, 1864), was also revised. Twenty-seven species are firs...
The Diptera collection of the Natural History Museum Berlin holds one of the most important collections of Neriidae. In this paper, the type specimens (holotypes, lectotypes, paratypes, paralectotypes, syntypes) of this historical collection are listed. 28 species-group taxa are dealt with. A lectotype designation is made for the species Brachantic...
High mountains offer discrete biocoenoses which are subject to a natural mosaic-like differentiation. To this can often be added a close integration with cultivated landscapes. Investigations in the Alps into historical and recent biodiversity are therefore particularly interesting and informative. For this reason an investigation was carried out i...
Report on 42 species of Tachinidae (Diptera) observed in Israel and adjacent areas during two short visits in 1995 and 1999, with particular reference to Drino latigena (Mesnil, 1944).
First record of Peleteria iavana (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tachinidae) from the Kaiserstuhl area near Breisach am Rhein (Baden-Württemberg).
First record of the rare parasitic fly Oswaldia reducta (Villeneuve) (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Klepelshagener Forst near Strasburg (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).
Clogmia albipunctata (Williston, 1893) (Diptera, Psychodidae) as a hygiene problem.
Determination keys: larvae of Diptera (German fauna)
On the Diptera collection of Hermann Loew (1807-1879) at the Natural History Museum Berlin.
In memoriam Dr. Hubert Schumann (7.5.1930-10.4.2010)
The Greek species of the genus Germaria are revised. Two species are described as new to science: Germaria erecta sp. n. (Greek mainland) and G. neglecta sp. n. (Greek mainland and the island of Kefalonia). A lectotype is designated for Atractochaeta graeca Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889. Germaria ruficeps (Fallén, 1820) is deleted from the list of Gre...
The German entomologist Dr Hubert Schumann (1930–2010) worked mainly on the taxonomy, systematics and ecology of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and numerous other families of Diptera. The present paper provides a biography and a comprehensive publications list.
Woodlouse flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae) were collected with a hand net in the Stilfserjoch National Park (Italian Alps) from 1999 to 2007. In addition, five Malaise traps were set up during 2005 in the South Tyrol section of the Park on a transect from 940 to 2,315 m above sea level. The resulting 464 Rhinophoridae are discussed in the present pap...
Volume 1 in the series “Diptera Stelviana” gives the first results of the Diptera (two-winged flies and midges) that were collected in traps in the year 2005 in the South Tyrol part of the Stilfserjoch National Park (Italian Alps). These results have been supplemented by the inclusion of data from the entire National Park and its marginal areas whi...
One species of Tachinidae collected on Lepidium draba in Dasht-e Barm, Dasht-e Arjan, Fars Province in April 2006 were identified as Ectophasia leucoptera (Rondani, 1865). E. leucoptera is a rare species belonging to the subfamily Phasiinae and has been reported as a parasitoid of pentatomid bugs.This tachinid species, which is newly recorded from...
[Parasitic flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) from the Stilfserjoch National Park (Northern Italy): Part II]
For a number of years the authors have been carrying out studies on the biodiversity of the Diptera of the Alps. Within this framework, a current project is investigating the species spectrum of tachinid parasitic flies within the diverse habitat t...
Determination keys: larvae of Diptera (German fauna)
Tachinidae, with over 8200 described species, represent the largest family of Diptera Brachycera. Of the 1750 species known from the Palaearctic region, approximately 900 are found in Europe. The faunistic knowledge of these parasitic flies in Europe is patchy and altogether incomplete. In this context, two separate blocks can be distinguished: a)...
Systematic Zoology, Order Diptera (Textbook). Printed in 2003, a corrected reprint in 2005.
Data are dealt with on the distribution and ecology of tachinids (Diptera: Tachinidae) from the Hautes-Alpes department of the French Alps. They are based on material observed or collected by the authors during 23 excursions between the years 1964 and 2002. Together with the few records from the literature, 343 species are now known from the Hautes...
Die Hain-Schwebfliege (Episyrphus balteatus). Insekt des Jahres 2004 in Deutschland.
The phenomenon of hilltopping behaviour, where males form mating aggregations on hilltops and summits, is known from various insect groups. The ecological basis for the development of this behaviour is probably low population density and this is true too for tachinids living at higher elevations. Typical for a tachinid species with obligatory hillt...
Within the framework of investigations into the diversity and niche preferences of alpine and subalpine Diptera and into floral ecology, faunistic surveys were carried out in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria. Collections were made discontinuously between 1989 and 1999, with yellow-tray traps, sweep nets, and individual captures. Material fr...
For the last ten years the authors have been studying the biodiversity and habitat preferences of Diptera in the Alps. Since 1995, the South Tyrol has also been included. This paper provides an introduction to the area under study together with its habitats. The results from the first element of investigation comprise records of 4 species of woodlo...
In 1998 the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (DEI) acquired the previously unknown Diptera collection of Dr Carl Friedrich Ketel (1861-1906), a secondary school teacher who was active in his spare time as a botanist and entomologist in Mecklenburg and west Pomerania. The present work opens with a brief sketch of the history of dipterology in the...
Checklist of tachinid flies of the federal state Saxony-Anhalt (Germany)
Distribution and host range of the Palaearctic species of the tachinid genus Chetogena Rondani, 1856, are discussed and Chetogena tschorsnigi spec. nov. is described as new to science. The types were collected in the Hautes-Alpes (France), but probably the distribution area of the species is not restricted to the Alps. The new species is similar to...
Checklist of tachinid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) of Germany
Red list of the tachinid flies of the federal state Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
The family Tachinidae includes more than 8,000 species worldwide and is the most species-rich family of the flies. The larvae are without exception parasitoids in the bodies of
arthropods. Many species parasitise harmful insects, and the family is thus of considerable importance in agriculture and forestry as well as in a more general ecological se...
Der in Eberswalde wirkende ,,Vater der Forstentomologie" und ,,Wegbereiter der angewandten Entomologie" Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg (1801 -1871) hat sich 1840 und 1844 in seinem fundamentalen Werk 'Die Forst-Insecten' auch mit den Raupenfliegen (Diptera, Tachinidae) befaßt. Die 14 von Ratzeburg beschriebenen Raupenfliegenarten werden diskuti...
Loewia cretica spec. nov. from Crete is described. A key in addition to the key by Mesnil (1974) is given. The new species is similar to L. foeda (Meigen). L. cretica is possibly a stenochorous species to this island.
A lectotype is designated for Goedartia fuscinervis Stein, 1924 and a redescription of Campylocheta fuscinervis (Stein, 1924) is given. Campylocheta bisetosa Shima, 1985 and Campylocheta umbrinervis (Mesnil, 1974) are similar species from the Eastern Palaearctic. Another species described from the Russian Far East occurs in Europe, too: Campylochet...
