• Completing Linnaeus’s inventory of the Swedish insect fauna: Only 5,000 species left? 

      Ronquist, Fredrik; Forshage, Mattias; Häggqvist, Sibylle; Karlsson, Dave; Hovmöller, Rasmus; Bergsten, Johannes; Holston, Kevin C; Britton, Tom; Abenius, Johan; Andersson, Bengt; Buhl, Peter Neerup; Coulianos, Carl-Cedric; Fjellberg, Arne; Gertsson, Carl-Axel; Hellqvist, Sven; Jaschhof, Mathias; Kjærandsen, Jostein; Klopfstein, Seraina; Kobro, Sverre; Liston, Andrew; Meier, Rudolf; Pollet, Marc; Riedel, Matthias; Roháček, Jindřich; Schuppenhauer, Meike M.; Stigenberg, Julia; Struwe, Ingemar; Taeger, Andreas; Ulefors, Sven-Olof; Varga, Oleksandr; Withers, Phil; Gärdenfors, Ulf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-04)
      Despite more than 250 years of taxonomic research, we still have only a vague idea about the true size and composition of the faunas and floras of the planet. Many biodiversity inventories provide limited insight because they focus on a small taxonomic subsample or a tiny geographic area. Here, we report on the size and composition of the Swedish insect fauna, thought to represent roughly half of ...
    • New records and first DNA barcodes of the family Canthyloscelidae(Diptera) in Fennoscandia 

      Kjærandsen, Jostein; Jaschhof, Mathias (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12)
      Prior to this study, members of Canthyloscelidae, a small, relict family of nematocerous Diptera, have very occasionally been found in Fennoscandia. This led to the widely accepted opinion of canthyloscelids being rare elements of the regional fauna. New data presented here on the occurrence of the three European species suggest that this picture needs a more differentiated view. We report two ...