Melanophora roralis

Melanophora roralis
female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Rhinophorinae
Tribe: Phytonini
Genus: Melanophora
Species:
M. roralis
Binomial name
Melanophora roralis
Synonyms

Melanophora roralis is a species of woodlouse fly in the family Calliphoridae.[13][14]

Description

M. roralis is 3–5.5 millimetres (0.12–0.22 in) long, black in colour with hairy antennae and a shiny thorax.

Distribution

It was introduced to North America from Europe[15] and can be found from Southern Ontario[16] to Chile and Argentina.[17]

Ecology

Species fly from mid-May to October and inhabit old forests and damp areas near the shore.[16] The females of this species have a distinctive white spots at the tips of their wings[18] and lay from 189 to 238 eggs in 6.5 to 7.5 hours.[19] It takes up to 21 days for the species' to pupate. It is a parasite of Porcellio scaber.[20]

References

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  3. ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, Jean-Baptiste (1863). Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris (PDF). Vol. Tome second. Masson et Fils, Paris. pp. 1–920. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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  5. ^ Macquart, P.J.M. (1855). "Nouvelles observations sur les insectes diptères d'Europe de la tribu des tachinaires (Fin)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 3 (3): 177–204, 4 pls. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  6. ^ Macquart, J (1834). "Insectes Diptères du Nord de la France. Tome V. Athericères: Créophiles, Œstrides, Myopaires, Conopsaires, Scénopiniens, Céphalopsides. Daniel L, Lille, 232 pp". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts, de Lille. 1833: 137–368.
  7. ^ Curran, C.H. (1928). "Records and descriptions of Diptera, mostly from Jamaica. Pp. 29–45. In: Gowdey, C.C., Catalogus insectorum jamaicensis". Entomological Bulletin. 4 (3): 1–45.
  8. ^ Harris, T.W. (1835). Insects. Pp. 553-602. In Hitchcock, E., Report on the geology, mineralogy, botany, and zoology of Massachusetts. 2nd Edition. Amherst: J. S. & C. Adams. pp. [4] + 702 pp., 19 pls, 3 maps.
  9. ^ Villers, C.J. de (1789). Caroli Linnaei entomologia Vol. 3. Lugduni [=Lyon].: Piestre & Delamolliere. pp. 657 pp., 4 pls.
  10. ^ Harris, M. (1780). An exposition of English insects. Vol. Decads III, IV. London: Robson Co. pp. 73–99, 100–138, pls. 21–30, 31–40. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  11. ^ Walker, F. (1853). Insecta Britannica, Diptera. Volume 2. London: Reeve & Benham. pp. vi + 298 pp., pls. 11–20.
  12. ^ Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1830). Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten. Vol. 2. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  13. ^ Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Badano, Davide; Gisondi, Silvia; Lo Giudice, Giuseppe; Pape, Thomas (15 Jan 2020). "The world woodlouse flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae)". ZooKeys (903): 1–130. doi:10.3897/zookeys.903.37775. PMC 6976704. PMID 31997887. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  14. ^ Yan, Liping; Pape, Thomas; Meusemann, Karen; Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan; Meier, Rudolf; Bayless, Keith M; Zhang, Dong (2021). "Monophyletic blowflies revealed by phylogenomics". BMC Biology. 19 (230). Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  15. ^ Jones, F.M. (1948). "Notes on Melanophora roralis". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 55: 31–34. doi:10.1155/1948/74989.
  16. ^ a b "Melanophora roralis". The Insects of Southern Ontario. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  17. ^ "Long-distance introduction: first New World record of Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) and a key to the genera of New World Rhinophoridae (Diptera)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2524. Magnolia Press: 66–68. 2010. ISSN 1175-5326.
  18. ^ Marshall, Steven A. (2006). Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: with a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America. Firefly Books. p. 718. ISBN 9781552979006.
  19. ^ J. Van Voorst (1991). The Entomologist. p. 182.
  20. ^ Warburg, Michael R. (1993). Evolutionary Biology of Land Isopods. Haifa: Springer. pp. 172pp. ISBN 978-3662218914.


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