A checklist of the 'fungus gnat' group of families in Sciaroidea: Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland. At present, the known Finnish fauna comprises 767 recognized species in 78 genera; 21 species of the family Bolitophilidae, 5 of the family Diadocidiidae, 2 of the family Ditomyiidae, 47 of the family Keroplatidae and 692 ...

Are they mushrooms, common sea slugs, or anemones? Many people may struggle to determine whether these organisms are terrestrial marine in origin based on the external morphology alone. In fact, two species presented here belong Thismia (Thismia hexagona var grandiflora and abei), a genus of non-photosynthetic plants commonly known as fairy lanterns. Under what selective pressures have their pe...