Platystomatidae
Authors/Creators
- 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 Platystomatidae
Of the four subfamilies occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, only the members of Platystomatinae genera Platystoma Meigen and Rivellia Robineau-Desvoidy are known from North Africa, belonging, each with three species in the region; in Morocco, four species of the family were known (El-Hawagry 2017; Kettani et al. 2022). Larvae of Rivellia feed on root nodules of various Fabaceae plants, but in the other genera, larvae may live as zoosaprophages on dead insects or in decaying plant matter or fungi (Ferrar 1987; Korneyev et al., 2015). In general, adults of Afrotropical platystomatids occur in dense forest and forest edge habitat types such as shaded areas, grasslands, or agricultural habitats (Whittington & Kirk-Spriggs 2021). Adults may be attracted to malodorous substances: faeces, dung, sap, rotting fruits, and even human sweat in the case of Rivellia (McAlpine 1998).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Platystomatidae
- Taxon rank
- family
References
- 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
- 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
- Ferrar, P. (1987) A guide to the breeding habits and immature stages of Diptera Cyclorrhapha. In: Entomonograph. 8 (1). E. J. Brill, Leiden and Scandinavian Science Press, Copenhagen, pp. 1 - 478. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004533936
- Korneyev, V. A., Volovnik, S. V. & Popov, G. V. (2015) Rearing of Platystoma rufipes Meigen, 1826 (Diptera: Platystomatidae) from the stem of Crambe infested by a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka, 6 (3), 43 - 44.
- Whittington, A. E. & Kirk-Spriggs, A. H. (2021) Chapter 70. Platystomatidae (signal 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. 1619 - 1667.