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Muscina stabulans

Description

Muscina stabulans (FALLÉN, 1817)

New locality record for Nightingale Island.

First recorded by FREY (1954: 43-44) from Tristan Island. Additional records are reported by BAIRD (1965: 426) and HOLDGATE (1965: 397).

Cosmopolitan in distribution. Adults are synanthropic. Larvae are saprophagous at first, becoming facultative carnivores later; they breed in decaying animal and vegetable matter, though apparently not excrement, and are recorded as parasitoids of other insects and as occasionally causing myiasis in higher mammals.

Four male specimens collected at Nightingale Island in 2005.

NIGHTINGALE, East Landing area below shacks, coastal boulders with penguin colony and tussock, 37°25'09"S 12°28'44"W, Malaise, 1.iv.2005, site 1, sample 1, C. HÄNEL, 4 ♂♂ (alcohol).

Notes

Published as part of Hänel, Christine & Pont, Adrian C., 2008, Houseflies of the Tristan da Cunha Islands: new records, including the first for Fannia albitarsis S, 1911 (Diptera: Fanniidae, Muscidae), pp. 211-222 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (1) on page 217, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.1.211-222, http://zenodo.org/record/5364451

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HANEL
Event date
2005-04-01
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Muscina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
FALLEN
Species
stabulans
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2005-04-01
Taxonomic concept label
Muscina stabulans (FALLEN, 1817) sec. Hänel & Pont, 2008

References

  • FREY, R. 1954: Diptera Brachycera und Sciaridae von Tristan da Cunha. - Results of the Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Tristan da Cunha 1937 - 1938 26: 1 - 55.
  • BAIRD, D. E. 1965: The effects of the eruption of 1961 on the fauna of Tristan da Cunha. Part V. - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 249: 425 - 434.
  • HOLDGATE, M. W. 1965: The biological report of the Royal Society Expedition to Tristan da Cunha, 1962. Part III. The fauna of the Tristan da Cunha Islands. - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 249: 361 - 402.