Microsania smoke flies swarm at Finnish prescribed burns; larvae in burnt soil barcode as Microsania mitochondrial COI, including the first larval description of M. straeleni. The organelle is a species ID tool.
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Editorial signal profile from the abstract (importance score, mito keywords, dysfunction tags, evidence density, translational cues). Not a figure reproduced from the preprint PDF.
Finding. Smoke flies finally have a childhood. Neuvonen, Twort and Stahls net Microsania at Finnish burns, then pull larvae from burnt soil whose mitochondrial COI says Microsania, including the first M. straeleni larva.
Score 41. Barcode natural history. Not an OXPHOS paper.
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Pyrophilic smoke flies (Diptera: Platypezidae: Microsaniinae) from prescribed burnings in boreal Finland: occurrence and behaviour of adult flies and first observations of immature stages
10.64898/2026.08.31.748078
Neuvonen T, Twort VG, Ståhls G.
