title: Notes on the taxonomy of the Holarctic Corynoptera Winnertz sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of six new species.
abstract: Six new species of Corynoptera Winnertz from northern Finland, Japan and North America are newly described and illustrated: Corynoptera captiosa sp. n., C. cracentis sp. n., C. inari sp. n., C. salmelai sp. n., C. spiciforceps sp. n. and C. tuomikoskii sp. n.. Corynoptera subvariegata Rudzinski, 1992 is redescribed and C. perochaeta (Mohrig & Menzel, 1990) and C. variegata Mohrig, 1985 are illustrated and their characters discussed. The new species studied show unusual characters for the genus, and do not fit well into currently defined species groups.
authors.affiliation: Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoological Museum, P O Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. pekka.vilkamaa@helsinki.fi
authors.forename: Pekka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vilkamaa
authors.forename: Heikki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hippa
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Heller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D004175:Diptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D005387:Finland; D008297:Male