A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 441: 319–324 (2014) Checklist of the ly families Chyromyidae and Heleomyzidae (Diptera) of Finland doi: 10.3897/zookeys.441.7507 CHECKLIST www.zookeys.org 319 Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Checklist of the fly families Chyromyidae and Heleomyzidae (Diptera) of Finland Jere Kahanpää1 1 Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoology Unit, P.O. Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Corresponding author: Jere Kahanpää (jere.kahanpaa@helsinki.i) Academic editor: J. Salmel | Received 13 March 2014 | Accepted 6 May 2014 | Published 19 September 2014 http://zoobank.org/FFD58A2C-97C8-4319-9D2B-AF8ADE1EB9C0 Citation: Kahanpää J (2014) Checklist of the ly families Chyromyidae and Heleomyzidae (Diptera) of Finland. In: Kahanpää J, Salmela J (Eds) Checklist of the Diptera of Finland. ZooKeys 441: 319–324. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.441.7507 Abstract A Finnish checklist of the sphaeroceroid ly families Chyromyidae and Heleomyzidae is provided. Keywords Species list, Finland, Diptera, biodiversity, faunistics Introduction he superfamily Sphaeroceroidea is a medium-sized one, with two families of moderate diversity, Sphaeroceridae (1550 species) and Heleomyzidae (~720 species), and the small family Chyromyidae. he enigmatic afrotropical Mormotomyia hirsuta Austen, 1936 was once placed near Sphaeroceridae but it is now seen as an ephydroid ly (Kirk-Spriggs et al. 2011). McAlpine (2007) has proposed an alternative concept for Sphaeroceroidea with Sphaeroceridae and Heleomyzidae united as a single family called Heteromyzidae. his proposal has not gained signiicant support and for the purposes of this checklist the traditional concept of family Sphaeroceridae is retained. Copyright Jere Kahanpää. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 320 Jere Kahanpää / ZooKeys 441: 319–324 (2014) Table 1. Number of species by family. Number of species in World (Pape et al. 2011) Europe Chyromyidae 138 59 Heleomyzidae 727 175 Family Finland 4 61 Level of knowledge poor–average average here is no general agreement on the relationships of various heleomyzid tribes. Several diferent schemes for subfamilies have been proposed (see McAlpine 2007, McAlpine and Woodley 2010). Some taxa treated here as heleomyzids (primarily Trixoscelidinae, Chiropteromyzinae, Heteromyzinae and Borboropsini) may deserve full family status. As a conservative approach this checklist follows Marshall (2012) and keeps them as subfamilies and tribes. he heleomyzid subfamilies and tribes are listed alphabetically. he Finnish chyromyids are small yellow lies with (at least while alive) iridescent blue or green eyes. Chyromyids are rarely collected and little is known about their ecology or the proper place of the family within Sphaeroceroidea. hey may actually be a specialized lineage arising from within Heleomyzidae sensu lato. Two of the three sphaeroceroid families are treated in this paper. he largest, Sphaeroceridae, is covered in a separate paper in this issue of ZooKeys. he Finnish species of Heleomyzidae and Chyromyidae were last listed by Hackman (1980). Checklist suborder Brachycera Macquart, 1834 clade Eremoneura Lameere, 1906 clade Cyclorrhapha Brauer, 1863 infraorder Schizophora Becher, 1882 clade Muscaria Enderlein, 1936 parvorder Acalyptratae Macquart, 1835 superfamily Sphaeroceroidea Macquart, 1835 CHYROMYIDAE Hendel, 1916 CHYROMYINAE Hendel, 1916 CHYROMYA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Chyromya lava (Linnaeus, 1758) Chyromya oppidana (Scopoli, 1763) GYMNOCHIROMYIA Hendel, 1933 Gymnochiromyia lavella (Zetterstedt, 1848) = minima (Becker, 1904) Gymnochiromyia inermis (Collin, 1933) HELEOMYZIDAE Westwood, 1840 BORBOROPSINAE Griiths, 1972 Checklist of the ly families Chyromyidae and Heleomyzidae (Diptera) of Finland BORBOROPSIS Czerny, 1902 Borboropsis puberula (Zetterstedt, 1838) = fulviceps (Strobl, 1898) CHIROPTEROMYZINAE Frey, 1952 CHIROPTEROMYZA Frey, 1952 Chiropteromyza broersei (de Meijere, 1946) = wegelii Frey, 1952 NEOSSOS Malloch, 1927 = Ornitholeria Frey, 1930 Neossos nidicola (Frey, 1930) HETEROMYZINAE Fallén, 1820 HETEROMYZA Fallén, 1820 Heteromyza atricornis Meigen, 1830 Heteromyza oculata Fallén, 1820 Heteromyza rotundicornis (Zetterstedt, 1846) TEPHROCHLAMYS Loew, 1862 Tephrochlamys lavipes (Zetterstedt, 1838) Tephrochlamys ruiventris (Meigen, 1830) = lapponica (Czerny, 1924) Tephrochlamys steniusi Frey, 1930 Tephrochlamys tarsalis (Zetterstedt, 1847) HELEOMYZINAE Westwood, 1840 tribe Heleomyzini Westwood, 1840 GYMNOMUS Loew, 1863 Gymnomus amplicornis (Czerny, 1924) HELEOMYZA Fallén, 1810 = Helomyza Fallén, 1820 emend. = Leria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 sg. Heleomyza Fallén, 1810 Heleomyza borealis Boheman, 1865 = czernyi Collart, 1933 = modesta misid. Heleomyza hackmani Frey, 1950 Heleomyza pleuralis (Becker, 1907) Heleomyza serrata (Linnaeus, 1758) MORPHOLERIA Garrett, 1921 sg. Spanoparea Czerny, 1924 Morpholeria dudai (Czerny, 1924) Morpholeria kerteszii Czerny, 1924 Morpholeria obscuriventris (Zetterstedt, 1847) Morpholeria ruicornis (Meigen, 1830) NEOLERIA Malloch, 1919 Neoleria inscripta (Meigen, 1830) 321 322 Jere Kahanpää / ZooKeys 441: 319–324 (2014) = minuta (Zetterstedt, 1838) Neoleria prominens (Becker, 1897) = tibialis misid. Neoleria ruicauda (Zetterstedt, 1847) Neoleria ruiceps (Zetterstedt, 1838) SCOLIOCENTRA Loew, 1862 sg. Chaetomus Czerny, 1924 Scoliocentra confusa (Wahlgren, 1918) Scoliocentra lavotestacea (Zetterstedt, 1838) sg. Leriola Gorodkov, 1962 Scoliocentra brachypterna (Loew, 1873) Scoliocentra nigrinervis (Wahlgren, 1918) sg. Scoliocentra Loew, 1862 Scoliocentra dupliciseta (Strobl, 1894) Scoliocentra scutellaris (Zetterstedt, 1838) Scoliocentra villosa (Meigen, 1830) tribe Oecotheini Gorodkov, 1972 ECCOPTOMERA Loew, 1862 Eccoptomera infuscata Wahlgren, 1918 Eccoptomera longiseta (Meigen, 1830) Eccoptomera marginicornis Czerny, 1924 Eccoptomera microps (Meigen, 1830) Eccoptomera obscura (Meigen, 1830) Eccoptomera ornata Loew, 1862 Eccoptomera pallescens (Meigen, 1830) OECOTHEA Haliday, 1837 Oecothea fenestralis (Fallén, 1820) tribe Orbelliini Gorodkov, 1972 ORBELLIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Orbellia nivicola Frey, 1913 SUILLIINAE Wahlgren, 1917 SUILLIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 = Allophyla Loew, 1862 Suillia ainis (Meigen, 1830) Suillia apicalis (Loew, 1862) Suillia atricornis (Meigen, 1830) Suillia bicolor (Zetterstedt, 1838) Suillia femoralis (Loew, 1862) Suillia lava (Meigen, 1830) Suillia lavifrons (Zetterstedt, 1838) = nudipes (Czerny, 1932) Suillia fuscicornis (Zetterstedt, 1847) Suillia humilis (Meigen, 1830) Checklist of the ly families Chyromyidae and Heleomyzidae (Diptera) of Finland 323 = inornata (Loew, 1862) Suillia laevifrons (Loew, 1862) Suillia lineitergum (Pandellé, 1901) = stroblii (Czerny, 1904) Suillia lurida (Meigen, 1830) Suillia mikii (Pokorny, 1886) Suillia nemorum (Meigen, 1830) Suillia pallida (Fallén, 1820) Suillia parva (Loew, 1862) = collini Hackman, 1972 = lavifrons auct. nec (Zetterstedt, 1838) Suillia quadrilineata Czerny, 1924 Suillia vaginata (Loew, 1862) TRIXOSCELIDINAE Hendel, 1916 TRIXOSCELIS Rondani, 1856 Trixoscelis frontalis (Fallén, 1823) ? = canescens misid. (see Notes) Trixoscelis marginella (Fallén, 1823) Trixoscelis obscurella (Fallén, 1823) Trixoscelis similis Hackman, 1970 Notes Chyromya oppidana (Scopoli, 1763). Found only inside houses and farm buildings in Finland. Orbellia nivicola Frey, 1913. his species was synonymized with O. myiopiformis R.D. by Storå (1958), but Frey (1958) defended its validity. he status of O. nivicola as a species needs veriication. Trixoscelis canescens (Loew, 1865). his species was originally described on the basis of a single female. Soós (1979) examined the type and revived the name from synonymy with T. frontalis. Woźnica (2008) provided an illustrated diagnosis for T. canescens and synonymized T. gigans Carles-Tolrá, 2001 and T. fumipennis Papp, 2005 with it. he species was recently recorded from Finland by Flinck and Kahanpää (2013). Specimens with darkened costal veins and dorsal abdominal surfaces, both proposed diagnostic characters of T. canescens, are common among Finnish T. frontalis material (see Fig. 8 in Flinck and Kahanpää 2013). Finnish males with these features have genitalia identical with those illustrated for T. frontalis by Hackman (1970) and quite unlike the genitalia of T. gigans (= fumipennis Papp). he male specimen mentioned in Flinck and Kahanpää (2013) was later dissected and it belongs to T. frontalis. he external characters (darkened costa and dorsum of abdomen) can not be used to reliably separate T. canescens from T. frontalis. he Finnish records of T. canescens are probably all misidentiications of T. frontalis. 324 Jere Kahanpää / ZooKeys 441: 319–324 (2014) References Flinck J, Kahanpää J (2013) Suomelle uusia kärpäslajeja (Diptera: Brachycera). Sahlbergia 19(1–2): 53–62. Frey R (1958) Über Orbellia nivicola Frey (Dipt., Helomyzidae). Notulae entomologicae 38: 97–100. 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