A Checklist of the Families Lonchaeidae, Pallopteridae, Platystomatidae, and Ulidiidae (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritoidea) in Korea with Notes on 12 Species New to Korea

Abstract

A preliminary list of the following four tephritoid families is provided including 30 Korean species, of which 12 are new to Korea: two Lonchaeidae, three Pallopteridae (two new to Korea), 17 Platystomatidae (two new to Korea), and eight Ulidiidae (all new to Korea). This list is mainly based on the insect collection at the Yonsei University Wonju Campus and on previous publications concerning these taxa. Although a full taxonomic revision for each family is required in the long term, this preliminary list will provide a useful starting point to further investigation of these families. For the other three tephritoid families known in Korea but not treated in the present study, 89 species of Tephritidae, 14 species of Pyrgotidae, and one species of the rare family Ctenostylidae have been reported previously. A total of 134 species in seven families are officially recognized for the Korean fauna of the superfamily Tephritoidea

Selected Diptera families caught with beer traps in the Republic of Mordovia (Russia)

“…Comments. This species is known from the southern part of the Russian Far East (Krivosheina & Krivosheina, 1997;Kameneva & Korneyev, 2006), Korea (Han, 2013), and from Ukraine (Kameneva et al, 2013). The records in the Republic of Mordovia are the first for European Russia.…”

A new Diptera family (Pallopteridae Loew, 1862) for the fauna of Turkey with four new records

“…The family Pallopteridae includes 71 valid species worldwide and 39 species distributed in the Palearctic Region (Pape et al, 2011;Han, 2013). There is no information about distribution of this family in Turkey.…”

“…Thus, all the specimens were made ready for the identification to the species level. The specimens were identified according to McAlpine (1981), Merz (1998), Ozerov (2009) and Han (2013). Identification key for Turkish Pallopteridae species modified from Ozerov (2009).…”

“…This family also includes five fossil species (Gentilini et al, 2006;Pape et al, 2011). Thirty-nine species of Pallopteridae are currently recognized in the Palearctic Region (Han, 2013). Members of Pallopteridae known for their small to medium sized (about 2.5-7 mm), are slender flies varying in color from pale yellow to reddish, gray or black (Oosterbroek, 2006).…”