The Fly Fauna of Finland (Draft)

The current version covers only the suborder Brachycera or true flies. We hope to add the second suborder (Nematocera) one day. For more details se the introduction chapter of the downloads or the online version.

Changelog

2/2013

Plenty of changes in preparation for publication.

1/2012

New species to a total of 3949. Added authors to family and higher taxon names (some are still missing). Moved Gymnopternus chalybeus to Ethiromyia.

3/2011

New species to a total of 3925. The format remains unchanged.

8/2009

New species to a total of 3881. The format remains unchanged. A change list can be created by searching for the \added and \modified commands in the LaTeX source files.

7/2008

New species to a total of 3842. The format remains unchanged.

11/2007

New species to a total of 3767. The format remains unchanged.

5/2007

New species to a total of 3747. The format remains unchanged.

12/2006

Many new species to a total of 3716. Two columns were added to the simple tabular file (FIdiptera.csv): column 3 gives the (latest) date when the species was added to the checklist, col. 4 is the family name.

3/2006

Some new species in Syrphidae, Pipunculidae, Tachinidae and a few other families (as always). Started to add LaTeX date tags documenting changes in individual records. This data is still very much incomplete and it is not included in any other format for now.

Download

The PDF version is the official (canonical) version. Other versions are provided for convenience. Current version: 1.2.2013 development snapshot.

• PDF (759k). Book-like layout, literature references, an a index to family, genus and species names. You can browse it with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF-aware programs. Uses PostScript Type 3 fonts.
• PostScript (1200k). Printer-friendly version in the PostScript format. Almost identical with the PDF version. Paper size: A4.
• LaTeX (127k). Get this if you want to tweak the layout of printable version and you are familiar with the LaTeX text processing system. ZIP:ped collection of files.
• HTML (372k). A zip package with the web version for off-line use.
• Simple Text (258k). A simple list of species in the following format: genus; species; species author; date (of addition); genus author; family.

On-line version