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Lonchaeidae

  • 1. LESCB URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
  • 2. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogdan Khmelnytsky St. 15, 01054 Kyiv, Ukraine and Museum f ¸ r Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Description

Family Lonchaeidae

The larvae of Lonchaeidae (especially of Dasiops and Lonchaea) live mainly under the bark of trees, especially conifers attacked by bark beetles / weevils, as zoophages or saprophages. Lamprolonchaea, Lonchaea and Silba have been reared from various fruits and have certain economic importance as pests. Some Silba species have been recorded on decaying stems of grasses (Poaceae). Some Dasiops species are also known to induce galls on grass stems (e.g. Cynodon) in Europe (Morge, 1967) and Afrotropical grassland habitats (MacGowan & Rotheray 2021). In North Africa, the family is represented by nine species of the two subfamilies Dasiopinae and Lonchaeinae, eight of which have been recorded from Morocco (El-Hawagry 2017; Ebejer et al. 2019; Kettani et al. 2022).

Notes

Published as part of Harym, Younes El & Korneyev, Valery, 2023, New additions to the fauna of the superfamily Tephritoidea (Diptera) of Morocco, pp. 487-514 in Zootaxa 5360 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10084909

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Lonchaeidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Morge, G. (1967) Die Lonchaeidae und Pallopteridae Osterreichs und der angrenzenden Gebiete 2. Teil Pallopteridae. Naturkundliches Jahrbuch Stadt Linz, 13, 141 - 212.
  • MacGowan, I. & Rotheray, G. E. (2021) Chapter 67. Lonchaeidae (lance flies). In: Kirk-Spriggs, A. H. & Sinclair, B. J. (Eds.), Manual of Afrotropical Diptera. Vol. 3. Brachycera: Cyclorrhapha, excluding Calyptratae. Suricata 6. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, pp. 1587 - 1596.
  • El-Hawagry, M. S. (2017) Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae). Zootaxa, 4299 (2), 151 - 190. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4299.2.1
  • Ebejer, M. J., Kettani, K. & Gatt, P. (2019) First records of families and species of Diptera (Insecta) from Morocco. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (S. E. A.), 64, 143 - 153
  • Kettani, K., Ebejer, M. J., Ackland, D. M., Bachli, G., Barraclough, D., Bartak, M., Carles-Tolra, M., Cerny, M., Cerretti, P., Chandler, P., Dakki, M., Daugeron, C., De Jong, H., Dils, J., Disney, H., Droz, B., Evenhuis, N., Gatt, P., Graciolli, G., Grichanov, I. Y., Haenni, J-P., Hauser, M., Himmi, O., Macgowan, I., Mathieu, B., Mouna, M., Munari, L., Nartshuk, E. P., Negrobov, O. P., Oosterbroek, P., Pape, T., Pont, A. C., Popov, G. v., Rognes, K., Skuhrava, M., Skuhravy, V., Speight, M., Tomasovic, G., Trari, B., Tschorsnig, H. - P., Vala, J. - C., von Tschirnhaus, M., Wagner, R., Whitmore, D., Woznica, A. J., Zatwarnicki, T. & Zwick, P. (2022) Catalogue of the Diptera (Insecta) of Morocco an annotated checklist, with distributions and a bibliography. ZooKeys, 1094, 1 - 466. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 1094.62644