Checklist of known moth flies and sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Armenia and Azerbaijan

Abstract

All credible and available published records for 17 species of moth flies known so far from Armenia (Phlebotominae 11 species, Psychodinae 6 species) and Azerbaijan (Phlebotominae 18 species) are summarized. The first records of 18 species of Psychodinae (tribes Mormiini, Paramormiini, Psychodini, Pericomaini) from Armenia and 6 new faunistic records (tribes Psychodini, Pericomaini) for the fauna of Azerbaijan are listed. The checklist of recent moth flies from Armenia includes now 35 species, and from Azerbaijan, 24 species.

Psychodidae (Diptera) of Azerbaijan and Georgia – faunistics with biodiversity notes

“…Although faunistic research of the family Psychodidae has been the subject of a number of authors (see the Introduction for references) and a large number of sites were examined in our recent studies (Ježek et al 2014(Ježek et al , 2018Oboňa et al 2017Oboňa et al , 2019a, each of our subsequent expeditions has highlighted species new for science and a number of new records for the Caucasus (or Transcaucasia) or for countries where we carried out the sampling. This study is no exception, and in addition to species new to science (Ježek et al 2021), we provide faunistic data on 46 species of the family Psychodidae in this publication, up to 12 of which are first records for Transcaucasia, 22 for Azerbaijan, and 17 for Georgia.…”

“…This is the first record since the original description. (Krek 1966(Krek , 1967a(Krek , 1967b(Krek , 1970(Krek , 1972(Krek , 1974(Krek , 1979a(Krek , 1999Krek et al 1976;Mučibabič et al 1984;Vaillant 1978;Wagner and Joost 1988;Wagner 1990;Ježek et al 2018;Oboňa et al 2019a).…”

“…PM. Distribution. Species known from Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia (Wagner and Joost 1983;Ježek et al 2018). First record for Georgia.…”

“…Following our results and findings in Transcaucasia (Ježek et al 2018(Ježek et al , 2021Oboňa et al 2017Oboňa et al , 2019a, which indicate the relatively high diversity of this family in the Caucasus, we continued to collect material in 2019. We did so in an effort to better understand the diversity and occurrence of the family Psychodidae in the Caucasus and to make the data on the faunistics and biodiversity of this group more complete.…”

“…Psychodidae is a relatively species-rich family, with nearly 500 species known to occur in Europe and the adjacent island areas; for more details, see Wagner (2018). The following authors contributed considerably to knowledge on the Transcaucasian Psychodidae: Perfiľev (1966); Lewis (1982); Artemiev and Neronov (1984); Vaillant (1972Vaillant ( -1983; Vaillant and Joost (1983); Wagner (1981Wagner ( , 1990Wagner ( , 2018; Joost (1986, 1988); Gugushvili and Lomtadze (2002); Wagner et al (2002); Ježek (1987Ježek ( , 2004Ježek ( , 2006aJežek ( , 2007Ježek ( , 2009; Melaun et al (2014); Ježek et al (2014Ježek et al ( , 2018 and recently Oboňa et al (2017Oboňa et al ( , 2019a.…”