Type Specimens of Awl-Flies (Diptera, Xylophagidae) in the Collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

A catalog of the types (holotypes, paratypes, lectotypes, paralectotypes) of the species of the family Xylophagidae (Diptera), described by F.D. Pleske (Th. Pleske), N.P. Krivosheina and B.M. Mamaev, and also by V.G. Kovalev, which are stored in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, is presented. Photographs of the holotypes and lectotypes and of their labels are given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]