Coelosynapha, a new genus of the subfamily Gnoristinae (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) with a circumpolar, Holarctic distribution.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The subfamily Gnoristinae is one of the most diverse and taxonomically difficult subfamilies of Mycetophilidae, with new species and genera being described almost every year from various parts of the world. Through inventories of fungus gnats in the Nordic Region and Russia, a genus and species new to science was discovered, yet with links back to an illustration made by the late French entomologist Loïc Matile in the 1980s. DNA barcoding aligned it with yet another species new to science, distributed across Canada and documented through The Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) by Paul D. N. Hebert and colleagues at the BOLD team.

New information

The new Holarctic genus, Coelosynapha gen. n. is described, consisting of two new species, the Palaearctic

SUBMITTER: Kjærandsen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7498476 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature