TY - JOUR

T1 - Fauna Europaea

T2 - Diptera - Brachycera

AU - Pape, Thomas

AU - Beuk, Paul

AU - Pont, Adrian Charles

AU - Shatalkin, Anatole I.

AU - Ozerov, Andrey L.

AU - Woźnica, Andrzej J.

AU - Merz, Bernhard

AU - Bystrowski, Cezary

AU - Raper, Chris

AU - Bergström, Christer

AU - Kehlmaier, Christian

AU - Clements, David K.

AU - Greathead, David

AU - Kameneva, Elena Petrovna

AU - Nartshuk, Emilia

AU - Petersen, Johan Frederik Torp

AU - Weber, Gisela

AU - Bächli, Gerhard

AU - Geller-Grimm, Fritz

AU - Van de Weyer, Guy

AU - Tschorsnig, Hans-Peter

AU - de Jong, Herman

AU - van Zuijlen, Jan-Willem

AU - Vaňhara, Jaromír

AU - Roháček, Jindřich

AU - Ziegler, Joachim

AU - Majer, József

AU - Hůrka, Karel

AU - Holston, Kevin

AU - Rognes, Knut

AU - Greve-Jensen, Lita

AU - Munari, Lorenzo

AU - de Meyer, Marc

AU - Pollet, Marc

AU - Speight, Martin C. D.

AU - Ebejer, Martin John

AU - Martinez, Michel

AU - Carles-Tolrá, Miguel

AU - Földvári, Mihály

AU - Chvála, Milan

AU - Barták, Miroslav

AU - Evenhuis, Neal L.

AU - Chandler, Peter J.

AU - Cerretti, Pierfilippo

AU - Meier, Rudolf

AU - Rozkosny, Rudolf

AU - Prescher, Sabine

AU - Gaimari, Stephen D.

AU - Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz

AU - Zeegers, Theo

AU - Dikow, Torsten

AU - Korneyev, Valery A

AU - Richter, Vera Andreevna

AU - Michelsen, Verner

AU - Tanasijtshuk, Vitali N.

AU - Mathis, Wayne N.

AU - Hubenov, Zdravko

AU - de Jong, Yde

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all extant multicellular European terrestrial and freshwater animals and their geographical distribution at the level of countries and major islands (east of the Urals and excluding the Caucasus region). The Fauna Europaea project comprises about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. Fauna Europaea represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing taxonomic specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many user communities in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education. The Diptera-Brachycera is one of the 58 Fauna Europaea major taxonomic groups, and data have been compiled by a network of 55 specialists. Within the two-winged insects (Diptera), the Brachycera constitute a monophyletic group, which is generally given rank of suborder. The Brachycera may be classified into the probably paraphyletic 'lower brachyceran grade' and the monophyletic Eremoneura. The latter contains the Empidoidea, the Apystomyioidea with a single Nearctic species, and the Cyclorrhapha, which in turn is divided into the paraphyletic 'aschizan grade' and the monophyletic Schizophora. The latter is traditionally divided into the paraphyletic 'acalyptrate grade' and the monophyletic Calyptratae. Our knowledge of the European fauna of Diptera-Brachycera varies tremendously among families, from the reasonably well known hoverflies (Syrphidae) to the extremely poorly known scuttle flies (Phoridae). There has been a steady growth in our knowledge of European Diptera for the last two centuries, with no apparent slow down, but there is a shift towards a larger fraction of the new species being found among the families of the nematoceran grade (lower Diptera), which due to a larger number of small-sized species may be considered as taxonomically more challenging. Most of Europe is highly industrialised and has a high human population density, and the more fertile habitats are extensively cultivated. This has undoubtedly increased the extinction risk for numerous species of brachyceran flies, yet with the recent re-discovery of Thyreophoracynophila (Panzer), there are no known cases of extinction at a European level. However, few national Red Lists have extensive information on Diptera. For the Diptera-Brachycera, data from 96 families containing 11,751 species are included in this paper.

AB - Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all extant multicellular European terrestrial and freshwater animals and their geographical distribution at the level of countries and major islands (east of the Urals and excluding the Caucasus region). The Fauna Europaea project comprises about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. Fauna Europaea represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing taxonomic specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many user communities in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education. The Diptera-Brachycera is one of the 58 Fauna Europaea major taxonomic groups, and data have been compiled by a network of 55 specialists. Within the two-winged insects (Diptera), the Brachycera constitute a monophyletic group, which is generally given rank of suborder. The Brachycera may be classified into the probably paraphyletic 'lower brachyceran grade' and the monophyletic Eremoneura. The latter contains the Empidoidea, the Apystomyioidea with a single Nearctic species, and the Cyclorrhapha, which in turn is divided into the paraphyletic 'aschizan grade' and the monophyletic Schizophora. The latter is traditionally divided into the paraphyletic 'acalyptrate grade' and the monophyletic Calyptratae. Our knowledge of the European fauna of Diptera-Brachycera varies tremendously among families, from the reasonably well known hoverflies (Syrphidae) to the extremely poorly known scuttle flies (Phoridae). There has been a steady growth in our knowledge of European Diptera for the last two centuries, with no apparent slow down, but there is a shift towards a larger fraction of the new species being found among the families of the nematoceran grade (lower Diptera), which due to a larger number of small-sized species may be considered as taxonomically more challenging. Most of Europe is highly industrialised and has a high human population density, and the more fertile habitats are extensively cultivated. This has undoubtedly increased the extinction risk for numerous species of brachyceran flies, yet with the recent re-discovery of Thyreophoracynophila (Panzer), there are no known cases of extinction at a European level. However, few national Red Lists have extensive information on Diptera. For the Diptera-Brachycera, data from 96 families containing 11,751 species are included in this paper.

U2 - 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4187

DO - 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4187

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 25733962

VL - 3

JO - Biodiversity Data Journal

JF - Biodiversity Data Journal

SN - 1314-2828

M1 - e4187

ER -