Moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) of Estonia.

A fundamental prerequisite for understanding and protecting biodiversity is the construction of a high-quality faunal database. The primary objective of this study was to address knowledge gaps in the biodiversity of the family Psychodidae in Estonia. Faunistic data on 45 species of moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Estonia are presented, including 30 new country-records.

p.L1795F LRRK2 variant is a common cause of Parkinson's disease in Central Europe.

Pathogenic variants in are one of the most common genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease (PD). Recently, the lesser-known p.L1795F variant was proposed as a strong genetic risk factor for PD, however, further families are currently lacking in literature.

Two new Meigen, 1803 (Diptera, Ptychopteridae) from the Western Palaearctic.

Dvořák, Oboňa & Manko, from Azerbaijan and Georgia, and Dvořák, Oboňa & Manko, from Bulgaria are described. differs from the other member of the group mainly by having almost completely yellow pleurae, and by the shape of the epandrium and gonocoxites. The diagnostics of and Török, Kolcsár & Keresztes, 2015 based on male genitalia are provided.

A new species of Epeorus (Caucasiron) (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae) from Azerbaijan and Iran.

A new species, Epeorus (Caucasiron) hyrcanicus, is described based on larval morphology and molecular data (COI) containing sequences from all Caucasian species described to date. The species is distributed in the Hyrcanian forest of southeastern Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. Based on our wide-range sampling, the new species is likely endemic to this area.

Two new species of Curtis from the Mediterranean and Transcaucasia (Diptera, Limoniidae).

Two new species of the genus Curtis, 1833 are described, Molophilus (Molophilus) rohaceki (Italy: Calabria) and M. (M.) soldani (Azerbaijan), and their male terminalia are illustrated.

A revised annotated checklist of louse flies (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) from Slovakia.

The list of all known locality and host records from the literature on louse flies from Slovakia are summarized, with the addition of new collection data. New locality data are provided for five species. Three species are added to the Slovakian list: (Bigot in Thomson, 1858), which was erroneously cited for Moravia instead of Slovakia in the previous checklist, and (Schiner, 1864) and (Bergroth, 1901), which were overlooked from the last checklist.

Terrestrial isopods associated with shallow underground of forested scree slopes in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia).

The shallow underground of forested scree slopes represents a little-studied subterranean biotope. In this paper, species diversity and depth distribution of terrestrial isopod communities studied in the depth profile (5-95 cm from the surface) of eight forested scree slopes in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia) is discussed. The southern edge of the Western Carpathians where the study sites are located represents the northernmost limit of distribution of obligate subterranean fauna in Europe.

Checklist of known moth flies and sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Armenia and Azerbaijan.

All credible and available published records for 17 species of moth flies known so far from Armenia (Phlebotominae 11 species, Psychodinae 6 species) and Azerbaijan (Phlebotominae 18 species) are summarized. The first records of 18 species of Psychodinae (tribes Mormiini, Paramormiini, Psychodini, Pericomaini) from Armenia and 6 new faunistic records (tribes Psychodini, Pericomaini) for the fauna of Azerbaijan are listed. The checklist of recent moth flies from Armenia includes now 35 species, and from Azerbaijan, 24 species.

A critical evaluation of the exotic bird collection of the Šariš Museum in Bardejov, Slovakia.

A collection of exotic birds deposited in the Šariš Museum in Bardejov (SMB), Slovakia, has not been evaluated critically since their deposition. We assessed the accuracy of identification of 465 bird specimens deposited in SMB with native distributions outside of Slovakia. Specimens belonged to 322 species of 82 families and 26 orders.