Description of Perithreticus neglectus sp. n. from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania (Diptera, Psychodidae)

Background The Psychodinae of the Afrotropical Region remain poorly understood. Slightly under 200 species have been described, but many countries have received very little attention from collectors and even countries where significant collection efforts have taken place have rarely had their collections studied in detail by specialist taxonomists. New information Perithreticus neglectus sp. n. is described from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, based on a male specimen collected in 1990. The new species is similar to Perithreticus anderseni Kvifte, 2015, which occurs in the same forest reserve, but can be separated by several genitalic characters, including the hypandrium well-developed with sclerotised anterior and posterior margins, gonocoxites narrower, the gonostyles with the slender apex shorter, the parameres shorter without pronounced basolateral projections and the surstylus with slightly fewer tenacula. The world fauna of Perithreticus now comprises five described species, of which two occur in the Afrotropical Region.Description of Perithreticus neglectus sp. n. from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania (Diptera, Psychodidae)publishedVersio

Citizen science reveals the establishment of the invasive container breeder Clogmia albipunctata in Sweden and Denmark (Diptera: Psychodidae)

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Description of Perithreticus neglectus sp. n. from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania (Diptera, Psychodidae)

Background The Psychodinae of the Afrotropical Region remain poorly understood. Slightly under 200 species have been described, but many countries have received very little attention from collectors and even countries where significant collection efforts have taken place have rarely had their collections studied in detail by specialist taxonomists. New information Perithreticus neglectus sp. n. is described from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, based on a male specimen collected in 1990. The new species is similar to Perithreticus anderseni Kvifte, 2015, which occurs in the same forest reserve, but can be separated by several genitalic characters, including the hypandrium well-developed with sclerotised anterior and posterior margins, gonocoxites narrower, the gonostyles with the slender apex shorter, the parameres shorter without pronounced basolateral projections and the surstylus with slightly fewer tenacula. The world fauna of Perithreticus now comprises five described species, of which two occur in the Afrotropical Region.Description of Perithreticus neglectus sp. n. from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania (Diptera, Psychodidae)publishedVersio

Description of Gondwanoscurus curleri sp. nov. from the West Usambara Mts, Tanzania (Diptera : Psychodidae)

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Platyplastinx ibanezbernali sp. nov., a new species of moth fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Ecuador

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First record of Lepidiella Enderlein, 1937 from the Oriental Region (Diptera, Psychodidae)

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First record of Lepidiella Enderlein, 1937 from the Oriental Region (Diptera, Psychodidae)

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Revisionary notes on Feuerborniella Vaillant, 1971, with the first record of the genus from the Afrotropical region (Diptera, Psychodidae)

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The Plesiobiontic Association of Formica lemani Bondroit with Lasius flavus (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Norway

Three compound nests of Formica lemani Bondroit, 1917 and Lasius flavus (Fabricius, 1782) are reported from Lygra, Western Norway. This is the first plesiobiontic relationship reported for F. lemani and the 9th for L. flavus. Behavioural and landscape ecological traits associated with plesiobiosis are discussed

Novi nalazi iz porodica Hesperinidae i Bibionidae (Insecta, Diptera) iz Hrvatske

We review the published records of Hesperinidae and Bibionidae (Diptera) from Croatia and add some new records based on recent, sporadic collecting in the country. The species Bibio handlirschi Duda, 1930 and Bibio reticulatus Loew, 1846 are recorded for the first time from Croatia. Notes are given on the taxonomy and bionomy of some of the species.U radu se daje pregled objavljenih nalaza iz porodica Hesperinidae i Bibionidae (Diptera) iz Hrvatske, uz dodatak novih nalaza prikupljenih slučajnim prikupljanjem. Vrste Bibio handlirschi Duda, 1930 i Bibio reticulatus Loew, 1846 zabilježene su prvi puta za Hrvatsku. Daju se podaci o taksonomiji i životu nekih vrsta