Dipterists Digest 2009 16, 101-102

Corrections and changes to the Diptera Checklist (22) – Editor The notes below refer to loss of no species due to synonymy and addition of 5 species, resulting in a new total of 7014 species.

Keroplatidae. The following changes result from J. KJÆRANDSEN, S. MARTINSSEN, K. HEDMARK and N.L. EVENHUIS (2009. On the Urytalpa Edwards (Diptera: Keroplatidae) in the Nordic and Nearctic Regions, with the fixation of a new type species and a key to world males. Zootaxa 2160, 29-50): Orfelia ochracea (Meigen, 1818 - Platyura) = O. unicolor (Staeger, 1840) Urytalpa dorsalis (Staeger, 1840 - Platyura) = U. ochracea: authors, not Meigen 1818

Culicidae. J.F. REINERT, R.E. HARBACH and I.J. KITCHING (2006. Phylogeny and classification of Finlaya and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(1), 1-101) proposed the new genus DAHLIANA Reinert, Harbach & Kitching, 2007 for Aedes geniculatus: Dahliana geniculata (Olivier, 1791 – Culex)

The following species is added in the present issue: Aedes (Aedes) geminus Peus, 1970

Hybotidae. The following species was described by I.V. SHAMSHEV and B.J. SINCLAIR (2009. Revision of the Iteaphila setosa group (Diptera: Empididae). European Journal of Entomology 106, 441-450). This species was included in the checklist under the generic name only, so was already counted in the total of species recorded from the British Isles: Iteaphila arundela Shamshev & Sinclair, 2009

Agromyzidae. The following species is added in the present issue: Phytomyza astrantiae Hendel, 1924

Ephydridae. The following species was added by W.N. MATHIS, T. ZATWARNICKI and H. KUBÁTOVÁ-HIRŠOVÁ (2009. A revision of the shore- genus Philotelma Becker (Diptera: Ephydridae). Systematics & Evolution 40, 121-158), based on material collected by G.H. Verrall and without stating that it was a new national record: Philotelma rossii (Canzoneri & Meneghini, 1979 – Scatella)

Tachinidae. The following species are added in the present issue: Cylindromyia (Neocyptera) auriceps (Meigen, 1824 – Ocyptera) Leucostoma anthracinum (Meigen, 1824 – Tachina)

Changes to the Irish Diptera List (12) – Editor This section appears as necessary to keep up to date the initial update of the Irish list in Vol. 10, 135-146 and the recent checklist of Irish Diptera (Chandler et al. 2008). Species are listed under families, but with references listed separately. The addition cited below brings the total Irish list to 3315 species.

Chloropidae Lipara lucens Meigen, 1830 (added by Ronayne and O’Connor 2009)

References Ronayne, C. and O’Connor, J.P. 2009. Lipara lucens Meigen (Dipt., Chloropidae), a first confirmed Irish record and an earlier unconfirmed record. Entomologist’s monthly Magazine 143, 210.