Six new species are described, raising the number of North American Acomoptera species to seven and the genus total to ten, and nearly doubling the number of species within the putative clade containing Acomoptera, Drepanocercus, and Paratinia. These novel species forms have implications for the concept of Acomoptera that in turn, may impact our understanding of its generic relationships and th...

Gnoriste macra Johannsen was described from Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin in 1912. The type locality is now a highly residential region few miles north of the center Milwaukee. Herein, collection events are reported for G. Sauk County southcentral Wisconsin. These new records, nearly century after only other literature record, indicate species still thrives though likely extirpated locality. specime...

In our recent paper on Palaearctic Docosia Winnertz, 1863, a new species was described under the name Docosia turkmenica Kurina & Ševčík, 2012. The material originated from the Kopet Dag Mountains (Big Bakhcha River) in southwest Turkmenistan and was named for its occurrence in the country (Kurina & Ševčík 2012). Unfortunately, the authors were not aware of a previous paper by Zaitzev (2011) de...

The relationships among the genera of fungus gnats in mycetophilid subfamily Leiinae are unclear, and monophyly this group is questionable. This monograph provides an extensive phylogenetic study based on morphological data from a large taxonomic sample, including all that have ever been assigned to wide outgroup sampling properly test subfamilial monophyly. A matrix with 128 features 117 termi...