Valery A. Korneyev

I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine · Entomology and Scientific Collections Management

The genus Physiphora includes at least 29 species, most of them occurring predominantly in the Afrotropical Region and a few species native to the other regions of the Old World. At least P. alceae (Preyssler 1791) and P. clausa (Macquart 1843) are subcosmopolitan species unintentionally introduced into the Australasian, Nearctic, and Neotropical R...

Genera of the subfamily Tachiniscinae (Diptera, Tephritidae), with discussion of the position of Descoleia Aczél and Nosferatumyia, gen. n. (Tephritoidea incertae sedis). — The subfamily Tachiniscinae is the sister-group of the other sub-families of Tephritidae. This lineage has existed at least since the Upper Oligocene or Lower Miocene and is the...

A revised checklist of the fruit-fly species of Syria, Jordan and Iraq is presented. Fifty six species of 25 genera occur in the three countries. Three new species arc described: Tephritis mesopotamica Korneyev & J. Dirlbek spec. nov. (type locality. Iraq, Samarra), Tephritis urelliosomima Korneyev & J. Dirlbek spec. nov. (type localities: Iraq, Sa...

The marigold fly Tephritis praecox (Loew, 1844) is recorded fro the first time from the western part of Ukraine; it was unintentionally introduced with the seed / flower heads of its host plant. Data on its disctribution are summarised and discussed.

A list of hitherto little-known species of alien insects recorded in Ukraine in the last 20 years.

New records of Urophora dzieduszyckii in Khmelnytsky and Ternopil Regions of Ukraine

This work presents new data on six families, 23 genera and 30 species, 11 of which are new to North Africa: Campiglossa bidentis (Robineau-Devosidy, 1830), Carpomya (Goniglossum) wiedemanni (Meigen, 1826), Ceroxys hortulana (Rossi, 1790), Myennis octopunctata (Coquebert, 1798), Palloptera scutellata (Macquart, 1835), Physiphora clausa (Macquart, 18...

Based on a field survey from 2017, twenty-three species are reported from Bhutan for the first time: Acroceratitis ceratitina, A. hardyi, Anomoia approximata, Bactrocera connecta, B. latifrons, B. nigrifacia, B. syzygii, Campiglossa sororcula, Cecidochares connexa, Dacus jacobi, Gastrozona fasciventris, Hoplandromyia antelopa, Lenitovena ultima, Pt...

Erectovena Ito is resurrected from synonymy and shown to fit near Dirioxa Hendel rather than Acanthonevra Mcq. The following synonymy is established: Soita Walker, 1865 = Phanlasmiella Hendel, 1914, syn. n.; Erectovena amurensis (Portschinsky, 1892), comb. n. (= Ptiloina amurensis Portsch.) = Rioxoptilona speciosa Hendel, 19 15 , syn. n.; Acanthone...

The taxonomy of the genus Cephalia Meigen, 1826 has hitherto been confused. This paper comprises a review of the 13 nominal species assigned to the genus Cephalia to date. Of these, C. nigripes Meigen, 1826 has previously been considered a junior synonym of C. rufipes Meigen, 1826, which is here found to be apparently the only species which actuall...

Otites ornata, a cryptic species of the genus Otites previously known to occur only in the Danube basin, is recorded for the first time from Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Opillya).

New records of Urophora dzieduszyckii Frauenfeld 1867 in Chernivtsi and Ternopil Regions of Ukraine sufficiently extend its known distribution and conservation status.

Korneyev, V. A. & Troshyn, A.M. Aberrant chaetotaxy in the species of Terelliini (Diptera: Tephritidae).-Specimens of Orellia falcata and Chaetorellia jaceae with aberration in the number and position of dorsocentral setae are recorded from Ukraine. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FED55540-9375-4011-A62C-E85F3AF5F412

Started by G. R. von Frauenfeld, R. Schiner and G. Strobl over 120 years ago by collecting several species in “Dalmazien”, studies of the fruit flies (Tephritidae) and picture-winged flies (Ulidiidae) in Croatia to date have been casual and fragmentary. Regular collecting of these families in Modruš (Karlovac County) during 2021–2022 has resulted i...

S. V. Korneyev (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8599-7695) J. J. Smith (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1492-3095) J. E. Frey (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6628-8834) V. A. Korneyev (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9631-1038) A new species of Rhagoletis (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Switzerland, with discussion of its relationships within the genus. Korneyev...

Korneyev, S. V., Volovnik, S. V. & Korneyev, V. A. The first find of Tephritis hurvitzi (Diptera: Tephritidae) in mainland Ukraine, with notes on its distribution and biology.-Tephritis hurvitzi Freidberg, 1981 is one of few gall-formers in the genus Tephritis known to induce stem swellings below flower heads of Tragopogon and Scorzonera (Asteracea...

Thirty-nine species of Tephritidae and four species of Ulidiidae are recorded for the first time from Chernivetska Region of Ukraine, which remained a "white spot" on the map of distribution of many Diptera groups. This diversity was found on two botanical preserves with rich flora represented by both meadow and steppe vegetation. A numerous popula...

Tephritis hurvitzi Freidberg, 1981 is one of few gall-formers in the genus Tephritis known to induce stem swellings below flower heads of Tragopogon and Scorzonera (Asteraceae). It occurs in steppes from eastern Qazaqstan to Israel (Golan Heights) and Ukraine. Previously known only from Crimean Peninsula, it was recently found to occur in the mainl...

Tephritis praecox (Loew, 1844) known to infest pot marigold (Calendula), a medicine plant used as anti-inflammatory and a remedy for healing wounds, as well as spice, predominantly in the Mediterranean region. It is recorded as a pest of cultivated Calendula in Slovakia for the first time. Morphology, phylogenetic relationships, biology and distrib...

The moth midge Clogmia albipunctata (Williston, 1893), one of the largest moth flies, living as larvae in sink and toilet pipes (“drainage worms”) is an alien species expanding in Europe. Despite its epidemiological and ecological significance, this species escaped from the attention of entomologists. This work provides the first information about...

Male of Hendelia beckeri is recorded as collected on oak sap in vicinity of Kyiv (Ukraine)

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Background Prior to this study, 141 species of Tephritidae were known to occur in Italy. New information Italian records of nine species of the family Tephritidae (Diptera) are provided. Five species, Eurasimona stigma (Loew, 1840), Noeeta bisetosa Merz, 1992, Campiglossa doronici (Loew, 1856), Xyphosia laticauda (Meigen, 1826) and Rhagoletis berbe...

The molecular-based phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Tephritinae, the subfamily that contains almost all the cecidogenous species of the family Tephritidae, has reassigned several tribes and groups of genera and modified their concepts based on morphology alone to other tribes and, thus, changed the hypothetical scenarios of evolution of fly/...

Themarictera rinhai sp. n. is described from Madagascar. Previously Themarictera was a monotypic genus with only the species, T. flaveolata (Fabricius, 1805) having several synonyms, from continental Africa. A key for identification of both species is provided.

A New Species of Terellia (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Morocco. El Harym, Y., Belqat, B., Korneyev, V. A.-Terellia ptilostemi sp. n., a previously unknown peculiar species of the genus Terellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 is described based on the holotype and a large series of paratypes reared from Ptilostemon rhiphaeus (Pau & Font Quer) Greuter (Aster...

Based on the samples of true fruit fl ies belonging to the subfamily Tephritinae collected in Morocco during 2016–2020, the genus Chaetostomella Hendel, 1927 and the species Myopites cypriaca Hering, 1938, M. longirostris (Loew, 1846), Tephritis carmen Hering, 1937 and Urophora jaculata Rondani, 1870 are recorded for the fi rst time in North Africa...

A dancing-fly species Syneches muscarius (Fabricius, 1794) ((Empididae: Hybotinae: Hybotini) is recorde for the first time from Ukraine (Kherson).

Kameneva, E. P., Popov, G. V. & Korneyev, V. A. On the checklist of Ukrainian Diptera Tephritoidea: Ulidiidae, Platystomatidae, Pyrgotidae.-The species from three families of the higher tephritoid flies hitherto recorded from Ukraine are listed with references. Of them, Ulidia parallela is recorded from Ukraine for the first time, and 3 species (Me...

The phylogenetic relationships of Tephritis Latreille, one of the largest genera of true fruit flies, are poorly understood due to the large number of species, lack of reliable morphological characters and difficulties in identification. In the present study we used two datasets to address these problems: one with 35 species of the genus Tephritis...

The true fruit flies (Tephritidae) of Cambodia are poorly known: only 10 species were recorded by Hardy (1973) and 27 species (all of the genus Bactrocera) by Leblanc et al. (2015). Based on additional material collected in June 2017, we document eight additional species for the fi rst time in Cambodia. We also provide a list of 44 species of tephr...

For the purpose of clarifying the taxonomic status of the type species of the genus Otites, a single specimen is designated as the neotype of both Musca porcus Latreille, 1804 and Blainvillia jucunda Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, syn.n. Otites ruficeps (Fabricius, 1805) is proposed as replacement name for Musca formosa Panzer, 1798 (preoccupied, non Mus...

The results of beer trapping from westernmost Ukraine (Uzhhorod and Mukacheve Raion) are presented. From all obtained insect taxa more attention was dedicated to selected groups: Dermaptera, Diptera (Anisopodidae, Bibionidae, Heleomyzidae, Lauxaniidae, Scatopsidae and Ulidiidae) and Mecoptera. Altogether 17 taxa were recorded. Four species, namely...

Three new species of Ulidia meigen, 1826 -- U. amnoni n. sp., U. bartaki n. sp. and U. skrylniki n. sp. from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan -- are described and illustrated. the following synonymies are established: Ulidia facialis Hendel, 1931 = Ulidia salonikiensis Hering 1940, n. syn., =Timia persica Hennig 1965, n. syn., = Ulidia omani Steyskal 197...

Field studies of Urophora dzieduszyckii Frauenfeld, 1867 showed its probably complete extinction at the locality where it was originally discovered by A. Wierzejski in the mid-1860s (the type locality) as well as in the locality where the species was found for the second time in 2016. In June 2019 another locality was found where this species was p...

The genus Rhagoletis is represented in the Oriental Region by four species known to occur in Nepal. A fifth species, Rhagoletis freidbergi n. sp., is described herein. It differs from all known congeners by the colour patterns on the abdominal ter-gites and wing. A key to known Central and southern Asian species of Rhagoletis (from the Caucasus to...

Species of the genus Tephritis usually have the wing pattern with dark rays on veins R4+5 and M connected to the preapical dark spot or to each other (often called the “apical fork). Some species, however, have a solid apical crossband (Korneyev, 2013), whereas others have an isolated pair of apical spots. Specimens with the latter morphological ch...

The true fruit flies (Tephritidae) are the most harmful agricultural pests among the higher Diptera. There are numerous adventive species expanding their areals into new territories among both the true flies and picture-winged flies (Ulidiidae). Monitoring of these species requires rapid and careful identification of them. The pictorial key provide...

Euxesta stigmatias Loew, 1868 originally known to occur in the USA, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Trinidad, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia as a pest of corn, Zea mais is recorded from Bulgaria.

Myodris annulata (Fallén, 1813) and the family Periscelididae are recorded from Ukraine for the first time.

Qualitative differences in aculeus length (compared with the lengths of wing and costal cell) were analyzed using discriminant method (canonical variates analysis) to classify specimens of Tephritis postica (Loew, 1844) into groups. This analysis shows that there is a high variability of the ovipositor (oviscape and aculeus) length, both absolute o...

Study of all flies (Diptera) collected for one year from a four-hectare (150 x 266 meter) patch of cloud forest at 1,600 meters above sea level at Zurquí de Moravia, San José Province, Costa Rica (hereafter referred to as Zurquí), revealed an astounding 4,332 species. This amounts to more than half the number of named species of flies for all of Ce...

Estimations of tropical insect diversity generally suffer from lack of known groups or faunas against which extrapolations can be made, and have seriously underestimated the diversity of some taxa. Here we report the intensive inventory of a four-hectare tropical cloud forest in Costa Rica for one year, which yielded 4332 species of Diptera, provid...

Based on data published before August 31, 2017 a checklist of the family Tephritidae (Diptera) includes 152 species and subspecies in 41 genera and three subfamilies. The list includes the distribution by province and the most important references on the nomenclature, existing keys, catalogues, original descriptions and redescriptions for the speci...

Records of Pest Species, with Improved Keys. Korneyev, V. A., Mishustin, R. I., Korneyev, S. V.-Based on previously unpublished specimens from the collection of I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology (Kyiv), all the species of the tribe Carpomyini known to occur in Europe and Asia westwards of the Caspian Sea and Afghanistan, are listed. The melon f...

A preliminary list of the picture-winged fl ies known from Columbia is supplemented by 15 species based predominantly on the materials from the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA and now contains 28 species, including Xycores igniceps gen. & sp. n. from Venezuela and Colombia. Th e new genus belongs to the subfamily Otitinae...

First reliable recird of the picture-winged fly Euxesta notata (Wiedemann, 1830) in Europe

The type specimens of fruit flies described by Dr. Theodor Becker based on material collected in China (Xinjiang and Xizang) and Iran by Russian expeditions directed by Petr Kozlov and Mykola Zarudny are listed and figured. They are deposited in the collection of the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg with some du...

Terellia barughii new species from Tabriz (East Azerbaijan Province) and T. babaki new species from Qazvin Province (Iran) are described and figured, and Terellia amberboae V. Korneyev & Merz, 1996 is redescribed. A new species group is established, host plant and phylogenetic relationships are briefly discussed, and a key to species is provided.

Fauna of the studied region is represented now by 54 species of the fruit flies (of them, 16 are known only from literature, and 3 previously recorded species are considered to be misidentified). Two species are found here for the first time after 150 years since first collecting by A. Wierzejski in the middle of 1860s — Urophora dzieduszyckii Frau...

In the tribe Pyrgotini, a monophyletic lineage is considered as the subtribe Adapsiliina Rondani, 1869, revised rank; it includes the genera Adapsilia Waga, 1842, Campylocera Macquart, 1843, Euphya Wulp, 1885, Eupyrgota Coquillett, 1899, Geloemyia Hendel, 1908, Hendelpyrgota Vanschuytbroek 1963, Plectrobrachys Enderlein, 1942, Porpomastix Enderlein...

Fourty-two species of the tephritid flies collected by the Chechoslovakian-Iranian expeditions, with comments on possible previous misidentifications and detailed localities, are listed.

The genus Physiphora includes at least 29 species, most of them occurring predominantly in the Afrotropical Region and a few species native to the other regions of the Old World. At least P. alceae (Preyssler 1791) and P. clausa (Macquart 1843) are subcosmopolitan species unintentionally introduced into the Australasian, Nearctic, and Neotropical R...

In addition to Toxurini and Pyrgotini, two monotypic tribes are described in the subfamily Pyrgotinae: Prodalmanniini, originally named and established by Aczél (1956) without detailed description or justification, and Toxopyrgotini trib. n. The type species of the type genera are redescribed and illustrated.

As a result of studies on fruit flies in Iran during 2013-2015, two genera (Eurasimona Korneyev & White 1991 and Inuromaesa Korneyev & White 1991) and eight species: Eurasimona stigma (Loew, 1840) Inuromaesa maura (Frauenfeld, 1857), Myopites inulaedyssentericae Blot, 1827, Oxyna flavipennis (Loew, 1846), Terellia ermolenkoi Korneyev, 1985, T. odon...

A New Species of the Genus Ramuliseta (Diptera, Ctenostylidae) from Madagascar, with a Key to Species. Korneyev, V. A. - Ramuliseta dolini sp. n. is described; it is similar to R. madagascariensis Hennig, 1961, differing by wing pattern; a key to three Afrotropical species is provided.

Review of the Genus Geloemyia (Diptera, Pyrgotidae), with Discussion of its Taxonomic Position. Korneyev, V. A. - Species assigned to Geloemyia Hendel, 1908, Trichempodia Malloch, 1930 syn. n., Parageloemyia Hendel, 1933 syn. n., and Dicranostira Enderlein, 1942 syn. n. are shown to be congeneric. Geloemyia is refined to include eight species: Gelo...

The signal fly Platystoma rufipes is reared from the stems of Crambe together with a lixine weevil. This is the second record of platystomatid larvae feeding inside the stems of plants.

The genus Homalocephala is a member of the tribe Seiopterini occurring in the Holarctics. Larvae of these flies live under the bark of fallen deciduous and coniferous trees. An illustrated key to adults of seven Holarctic species is provided.

Eight species of the family Piophilidae are found in the mainland Ukraine. Five of them, Allopiophila luteata (Haliday, 1833), Parapiophila vulgaris (Fallén, 1820), Protopiophila latipes (Meigen, 1838), Stearibia nigriceps (Meigen, 1826), and Neottiophilum praeustum (Meigen, 1826), are recorded from the fi rst time from Ukraine. Two species, Myceta...

Afropyrgota gen. n. (type species: Apyrgota marshalli Hendel, 1914) is established to include fi ve species, Afropyrgota copelandi sp. n., Afropyrgota mambilla sp. n., Afropyrgota marshalli (Hendel, 1914) comb. n. (= Apyrgota marshalli Hendel, 1914), Afropyrgota ota sp. n. and Afropyrgota uzungwa sp. n., occurring in the tropical part of Africa. Al...

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Musca octopunctata Coquebert, 1798 (currently Myennis octopunctata) = Oedaspis (Bulgaroedaspis) sofianus Drensky, 1943, syn. n. Myennis = Bulgaroedaspis Drensky, 1943 (type species: Oedaspis (Bulgaroedaspis) sofianus Drensky, 1943, by monotypy) syn. n.

Th e synonymy of Taeniomastix Enderlein, 1942, syn. n. (type species: Taeniomastix sumatrana Enderlein, 1942) and Eupyrgota Coquillett. 1898 is established. Th e subgeneric rank of Taeniomastix is proposed; the subgenus corresponds the spinifemur group of species sensu Korneyev (2006), with minor additions to its diagnosis. Four species from the Or...

Pyrgotid Flies assigned to Apyrgota. I. New Species and Synonyms in Eupyrgota (s. str.) (Diptera, Pyrgotidae), with Description of a New Subgenus. Korneyev, V. A. - Eupyrgota scioida Hendel, 1908, the type species of the genus Apyrgota Hendel, 1909, syn. n. is shown to belong in Eupyrgota Coquillett, 1899. Th e diagnoses of the genus Eupyrgota and...

An interactive pictorial key to species of the genus Oxyna is provided. New material from European Russia (Volga basin) is listed, including some previously poorly known species. Oxyna variabilis Chen, 1938 is recorded from Europe for the first time. Morphological characters of all the species are illustrated.

The Terellia virens group includes eight species of uniformly greenish flies with white setu-lose abdomens and hyaline wings, variable in the characters of the male and female terminalia. Three new species are described and illustrated: Terellia freidbergi sp. n. from Middle and Near East, from flower heads of Centaurea behen L., T. ivannikovi V. K...

A parasitic fly Aliasutra australica new genus and species is described, and the subfamily Tachiniscinae is recorded from Australia for the first time. The new species superficially resembles pyrgotid flies by lacking frontal setae and wing pattern, and by having numerous proepisternal setae and brownish yellow body. It possesses a unique structure...

Herina lazi sp. nov. from North Eastern Turkey is described. It shares small size, yellow face and femora, short oval flagellomere 1 of antenna, low oval eyes, and the apical brown spot on wing aligned to costal vein in cells r2+3 and r4+5 and shape of male and female genitalia with H. pseudoluctuosa Hennig, differing by details of the wing pattern...

Based on the study of type and exhaustive non-type material from many entomological collections, six species of the Afrotropical genus Pyrgotomyia, viz. P. callosa sp. n. (Cameroon), P. terebrans sp. n. (Ivory Coast), P. stuckenbergi sp. n. (Nigeria), P. ciliata Hendel, 1934, P. richteri (Steyskal, 1972) comb. n., and P. temporalis (Enderlein, 1942...

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Tephritis sahandi new species from Iran (type locality: Sahand chain mountains, East Azerbaijan Province) with an uncommon banded wing pattern is described and shown to be related to Pangasella volkovitshi Richter from Tadjikistan. Both species fit the diagnosis of the genus Tephritis Latreille 1804, and possess its key characters; as the result, P...

Korneyev V. A., Gharali B. & Rakhshani H. A review of the genus Hypenidium Loew, 1862 (Diptera: Tephritidae). Summary. The taxonomic position of the genus Hypenidium is analyzed and its relationships with other genera of the tribe Noeetini are discussed. An illustrated key to species of the genus is provided. Examined material of H. graecum Loew, 1...

In Ukraine, Moldova and neighbouring European countries are registered ninety species of phytophagous insects and their parasites, that are trophically associated with leafy spurges. For each specie are shown data about host range and distribution

Crumomyia pedestri (Meigen, 1830) (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) is recorded from Ukraine for the first time based on specimens found on snow in Kyiv region.