@article {60271, title = {Invertebrates of Dobšiná Ice Cave and Stratená Cave System, Slovak Paradise, Slovakia}, journal = {Slovenský Kras: Acta Carsologica Slovaca}, volume = {58}, year = {2020}, pages = {69-96}, abstract = {

So far, 262 invertebrate taxa have been identified in the entire Straten\á Cave System, 91 of which occupy Dob\šin\á Ice Cave. Individual entrances to the system are situated on slopes covered by a mountain spruce forest. The parietal fauna of the entrance sections of the Straten\á and Psie diery Caves consists of a rich dipteran community. The collapsed doline at the entrance of Dob\šin\á Ice Cave represents a peculiar microclimatically inverse habitat inhabited by cold-adapted species of soil fauna. The shallow soil profile at the entrance of Dob\šin\á Ice Cave is occupied by recently discovered Collembola species Megalothorax dobsinensis. Its existence is exclusively limited to the cold and wet parts of the entrance microclimatic gradient. The cave sections filled permanently with glaciers are the poorest in terms of species diversity, with only 4 invertebrate species recorded. Collembola Deuteraphorura kratochvili and Protaphorura janosik are Carpathian endemics. P. janosik is characteristic of the entire cave system, occasionally with higher population density on the ice surface. Unglaciated parts of the Straten\á Cave System represent an environment with a more microclimatic balanced regime with an air temperature between 3\–6 \°C. These parts are the habitat of troglobiotic and eutroglophilic invertebrates such as mite Pantelozetes cavaticus and Cyrtolaelaps mucronatus, collembolans Pygmarrhopalites aggtelekiensis and Megalothorax carpaticus, isopod Mesoniscus graniger and diplopod Allorhiscosoma sphinx. The Straten\á Cave is the locus typicus of troglobiotic mite Foveacheles troglodyta (family Rhagidiidae). The cave system is also rich in standing water habitats. Due to its macroscopic dimensions, Niphargus tatrensis is the most striking stygobiotic crustacean in the Straten\á Cave System. Other typical representatives of the aquatic fauna are minute crustaceans Elaphoidella sp. and Bathynella natans occupying pools in unglaciated parts of the Dob\šin\á Ice Cave. The presence of highly adapted terrestrial and aquatic cave invertebrates, some of them classified as glacial relicts, indicates the stable environmental conditions of the Dob\šin\á Ice Cave despite its long-term exploitation as a tourist cave.

}, author = {Vladimír Papáč and Vladimír Košel and Ľubomír Kováč and Peter Ľuptáčik and Andrej Mock and Andrea Parimuchová and Natália Raschmanová and Zuzana Višňovská} } @article {60269, title = {Updated checklist of Norwegian Mycetophilidae (Diptera), with 92\% DNA barcode reference coverage}, journal = {Norwegian Journal of Entomology}, volume = {67}, year = {2020}, pages = {201-234}, abstract = {

Up to present 602 species and 65 genera of fungus gnats, family Mycetophilidae, are published from Norway. Extensive collecting supported by the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC) over the eight last years, with special focus on insect fauna in northern Norway, has documented 240 additional species and 2 additional genera from Norway, of which 118 species are considered as new to science. Based on a thorough review of the species previously published from Norway, we have crossed out six species as misidentified. One new synonym is established: Boletina conformis Siebke, 1863 syn. n. = Boletina plana (Walker, 1856). Two species are restituated based on integrative studies including DNA barcodes. These are Ectrepesthoneura bucera Plassmann, 1980 sp. restit., found to be a distinct species separate from Ectrepesthoneura ovata Ostroverkhova, 1977, and Trichonta trifida Lundstrom, 1909 sp. restit., found to be a distinct species separate from Trichonta vulcani (Dziedzicki, 1889). The updated, validated A-checklist includes 821 species of which 703 (86\%) refer to formally described species and 118 (14\%) to potentially undescribed species, referred to by their interim names as used on BOLD and in our databases. All species are documented with specimens in the museum collections at either Troms\ø University Museum (TMU, 781 species, 95\%) and/or the Natural History Museum in Oslo (NHMO, 382 species, 47\%). Another 14 published species are transferred to a B-checklist with currently unvalidated species, as we fail to recover voucher representatives. Supported by the Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL) network, we have DNA barcoded as many species as possible contributing to the reference library on The Barcode of Life Project (BOLD). Hence, 756 (92\%) of the validated Norwegian species are currently documented with DNA barcodes and assigned Barcode Index Numbers (BINs) on BOLD, including the majority of the species considered new to science based on morphology (103 species, 87\% of the 118). The checklist, is kept in a short format giving the published species names or interim names as used on BOLD and in our databases, depository information, assigned BINs with indications of discordance, and finally their (2015) Red List status in Norway. An accompanying dataset containing recording details and distribution of all new records from Norway of described species, is published on GBIF and on Norway\’s Species Map Service (Artskart).

}, url = {https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/82581}, author = {Kj{\ae}randsen, Jostein and S{\o}li, Geir E. E.} } @article {60169, title = {New data on the fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of the Taimyr Peninsula with a description of two new species of the genus Boletina Staeger}, journal = {Russian Entomological Journal}, volume = {29}, year = {2020}, month = {Jan-12-2020}, pages = {315 - 326}, abstract = {

New data on the fungus gnats fauna of the Taimyr Peninsula (Russia) are presented. Seventy-two species of the families Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae are reported, 65 of which are new for the area. Five species are newly recorded from Russia and two species \— from the Palaearctic region. Two new species: Boletina rodentistyla Polevoi, sp.n. and Boletina pyasina Maximova et Subbotina, sp.n. are described.

}, issn = {0132-8069}, doi = {10.15298/rusentj.29.3.13}, url = {https://kmkjournals.com/journals/REJ/REJ_Index_Volumes/REJ_29/REJ_29_3_315_326}, author = {Polevoi, A. V. and Maximova, Yu. V. and Subbotina, E. Yu.} } @article {57394, title = {The oldest fungus gnat of the tribe Exechiini in the lowermost Eocene Oise amber (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = { 4722}, year = {2020}, pages = {091{\textendash}098}, abstract = {

Eoexechia gallica gen. n. and sp. n., oldest record of the fungus gnat tribe Exechiini, is described from the Lowermost Eocene amber of France. It falls as sister group of all the extant Exechiini after its addition to the morphological phylogenetic analysis of the tribe. Its discovery suggests a Paleocene age for the Exechiini, in accordance with the current phylogenetic dating. This new discovery will help to date the whole clade in future phylogenies.

}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4722.110.11646/zootaxa.4722.1.9}, url = {https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4722.1https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4722.1.9}, author = {Camier, Marie and Nel, Andre} }