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Iain MacGowan, Research Associate of the Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Scotland (National Museums of Scotland, Collection Centre, 242 West Granton Rd, Edinburgh EH5 1JA, Scotland); iD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3188-4315; e-mail: imacgowan9@gmail.com
André Reimann, PhD, Collection Manager, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde (KönigsbrückerLandstraße 159, D–01109, Dresden, Germany); https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3087-4931; e-mail: andre.reimann@senckenberg.de
Mikhail N. Esin, Senior Researcher of the Joint Directorate of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve and National Park «Smolny» (430005, Russia, Republic of Mordovia, Saransk, Krasnaya Street, 30); iD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0862-7601; e-mail: m.n.esin@yandex.ru

MacGowan I., Reimann A., Esin M.N. 2026. Lonchaeidae (Diptera) species described as new to science from the Mordovia State Nature Reserve (Russia). Nature Conservation Research 11(2): 94–96. https://dx.doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2026.009

Extensive trapping of Diptera in the Mordovia State Nature Reserve (Russia) has led to the discovery of three new species of Lonchaeidae in the genus Lonchaea. These were formally described between 2022 and 2025. A summary is provided here of the records of these species, their general taxonomy, ecology and wider distribution.

faunistics, Lonchaea, Palearctic, Protected Area, taxonomy

Received: 04.09.2025. Revised: 01.10.2025. Accepted: 10.10.2025.

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