All available records of two nematoceran flies Pachyneura fasciata and P. oculata were gathered and mapped. P. fasciata is a wide-ranging Palaearctic species, and is here reported for the first time for some regions of the Russian Federation, including the European part of Russia (Leningrad Oblast), Western Siberia (Tomsk Oblast, Altay Republic), Eastern Siberia (Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Chita Oblast), the Far East of Russia (Kuril islands, Kunashir and Paramushir Islands), and for continental China. Pachyneura oculata has a restricted eastern Palaearctic range. The lectotype of P. fasciata has been designated and a key for the identification of Pachyneura species is provided.

The superfamily Tipuloidea contains the following cranefly families: Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae, with 1267 species known in Europe. Recent studies have increased our knowledge regarding these families substantially, but craneflies still represent an understudied group, even in Europe. A previous paper focused on European Limoniidae, summarizing the faunistic and taxonomic papers concerning the family between 2010 and 2020, and reported additional new country records. In this study, the focus is on the other three cranefly families: Cylindrotomidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae, summarizing taxonomic and faunistic studies concerning these families in Europe between 2010 and 2022. Also presented are 204 occurrence records belonging to one Cylindrotomidae, 23 Pediciidae and 62 Tipulidae species, which represent first country records from various European countries: three from Albania, three from Belarus, one from Belgium, three from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 13 from Bulgaria, two from Cyprus, two from Denmark, three from Estonia, one from Finland, two from Greece, three from Italy, one from Montenegro, one from North Macedonia, six from Norway, six from Poland, four from Portugal, seven from Serbia, four from Slovenia, two from Spain and one from Sweden, and three from the European territory of Russia. In addition of species known already from Russia, six are presented as new from Central European Russia, 26 from East European Russia, six from North Caucasus and six from North European Russia.

Tipula (Vestiplex) tchukchi obtusidens Savchenko, 1964 is designated as a synonym of the nominotypical species Tipula (Vestiplex) tchukchi Alexander, 1934 syn. nov. Tipula (Vestiplex) aldrichiana Alexander, 1929 and Tipula (Vestiplex) balioptera Loew, 1863 are reported as new to the Russian fauna and the Palaearctic – East Beringian region.

Ptychopteridae, a family of flies (Diptera) new to the Philippine Islands with the description of a new species

It is the first time that superfamily Tipuloidea and families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, and Tipulidae are noted for Jewish Autonomous Region. The paper features a list of 12 species, 9 of which are noted for the territory of the Bastak reserve. Впервые для Еврейской автономной области отмечено надсемейство Tipuloidea и входящие в него семейства Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae и Tipulidae. Представлен список из 12 видов, девять из которых отмечены для территории заповедника «Бастак».

An annotated list of crane flies (Tipuloidea) collected in the vicinity of Pevek City (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, northwest of Chaun Bay) was compiled based on the surveys carried out in 2011 and 2021, as well as on the collection material of the Zoological Institute RAS (St. Petersburg). The list contains 10 species of Tipulidae (120 specimens in total) and three species of Limoniidae (7 specimens), of which Tipula (Odonatisca) subarctica Alexander, 1919 and Symplecta (Symplecta) scotica (Edwards, 1938) are recorded for the first time for the Chukotka AO. The bulk of the fauna consists of the species with the Arctic/Arcto-montane ranges, some of which are restricted to the extreme northeast of Asia; one third of the species have Hypoarcto-montane ranges. The peculiar feature of the ecological composition of the fauna is the small number of hygrophilous taxa (only one species in the family Tipulidae). The Hypoarcto-montane Tipula (Vestiplex) montana excisoides Alexander, 1934 is the commonest species in the studied area. Most of the other species found around Pevek are rare there, and some are found in very small numbers, which is particularly characteristic of limoniids.