see recent molecular phylogeny by Sevcik et al. 2016) forms a monophyletic group of 17 extant and 17 fossil families of lower flies belonging to the insect order Diptera, the two-winged true flies. Our cross-university research group works to discover, enumerate and describe the rich northernmost fauna elements of the infraorder Bibionomorpha, the species living in the Taiga and Tundra biomes of the Holarctic Region." /> see recent molecular phylogeny by Sevcik et al. 2016) forms a monophyletic group of 17 extant and 17 fossil families of lower flies belonging to the insect order Diptera, the two-winged true flies. Our cross-university research group works to discover, enumerate and describe the rich northernmost fauna elements of the infraorder Bibionomorpha, the species living in the Taiga and Tundra biomes of the Holarctic Region." />

External members:

Dr. Alexei Polevoi (PhD), Senior Researcher at Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia

Dr. Jukka Salmela (PhD), Curator, Regional Museum of Lapland, City of Rovaniemi, Finland

Dr. Jevgeni Jakovlev (PhD), Visiting researcher at Zoological Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland

Dr. Olavi Kurina (PhD), Senior Researcher at Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia

Dr. Mathias Jaschhof (Dr. rer. nat.), Senior researcher at Station Linné, Öland, Sweden

Associate professor Geir Einar Ellefsen Søli, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway


Internal members:

Jostein Kjærandsen

Professor
Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum
Campus Tromsø