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Pherbellia nana nana (Fallén 1820

  • 1. Research Collaborator, Smithsonian Institution, 7835 Tufton Street, Fishers, Indiana 46038, U. S. A. murph 3000 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0085 - 6998
  • 2. 2321 Bixler Drive, Suffield, Ohio 44260, U. S. A. marshfly @ sbcglobal. net; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0007 - 7739 - 8749
  • 3. Instituto de Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile christian. gonzalez @ umce. cl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2582 - 6071
  • 4. Systematic Entomology Laboratory (Emeritus), U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., U. S. A. Last address: Salita degli Albito, 29, 04024 Gaeta LT, Italy (deceased) Corresponding author

Description

nana nana (Fallén), 1820: 15

(Sciomyza) [Johnson 1925: 250]

ST: 1♂ 1♀ Sweden, Esperöd. NHRS, unnumbered

DIST: MEXICO (Baja California; Ciudad de México; Puebla: Huachinango; Tamaulipas). Also CANADA and UNITED STATES. The nominate subspecies, Ph. nana reticulata (Thomson), occurs throughout Europe. Map: Bratt et al. 1969

FIGS: Wulp 1897 (wing), Cresson 1920 (head, wing), Fisher & Orth 1983 (♂ terminalia), Foote et al. 1999 (wing), Foote & Keiper 2004 (habitus, wing), Knutson & Vala 2011 (wing), this paper (dorsal head)

BIOL: Bratt et al. 1969. BG: 2; PG: 1

HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: In North America and Europe: freshwater (seven genera) and terrestrial (four genera) pulmonate snails [larvae and puparia in Galba humilis, Gyraulus parvus, Physa sp., and Stagnicola elodes (Bratt et al. 1969)]

IMMATS: Bratt et al. 1969 (E, L1–L3, P)

CHR: Boyes et al. 1969 (karyotype)

MOL_DAT: Y transducta Walker, 1861: 320 (Sciomyza) [Steyskal 1965b: 686]

HT:? “ United States.” NHMUK, unnumbered

Notes

Published as part of Murphy, William L., Abercrombie, Jay, González, Christian R. & Knutson, Lloyd, 2023, Overview of the Sciomyzidae (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea) of the Americas south of the United States, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 5345 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8345756

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fallen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sciomyzidae
Genus
Pherbellia
Species
nana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pherbellia nana (Fallén, 1820 sec. Murphy, Abercrombie, González & Knutson, 2023

References

  • Johnson, C. W. (1925) Fauna of New England. 15. List of the Diptera or two-winged flies. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 7 (15), 1 - 326, 1 fig.
  • Bratt, A. D., Knutson, L. V. Foote, B. A. & Berg, C. O. (1969) Biology of Pherbellia (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York, Memoirs, 404, 1 - 247.
  • Wulp, F. M. van der (1897) Family Muscidae, Sciomyzinae. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoologia-Insecta-Diptera, 2, pp. 354 - 360.
  • Cresson, E. T., Jr. (1920) A revision of the Nearctic Sciomyzidae (Diptera, Acalyptratae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 46, 27 - 89, 3 pls.
  • Foote, B. A., Knutson, L. V. & Keiper, J. B. (1999) The snail-killing flies of Alaska (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). Insecta Mundi, 13 (1 - 2), 45 - 72.
  • Foote, B. A. & Keiper, J. B. (2004) The snail-killing flies of Ohio (Insecta: Diptera: Sciomyzidae). Kirtlandia, 54, 43 - 90.
  • Knutson, L. V. & Vala, J. - C. (2011) Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xix + 506 pp.
  • Boyes J. W., Knutson, L. V., Jan, K. Y. & Berg, C. O. (1969) Cytotaxonomic studies of Sciomyzidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 88 (3), 331 - 356. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3224701
  • Walker, F. (1861) Characters of undescribed Diptera in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq., F. R. S., & c. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, New Series, 5 (8), 297 - 334.
  • Steyskal, G. C. (1965 b) Family Sciomyzidae (Tetanoceridae). In: Stone, A., Sabrosky, C. W., Wirth, W. W., Foote, R. H. & Coulson, J. R. (Eds.), A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico. Handbook 276. U. S. Department of Agriculture., Washington, D. C., pp. 685 - 695.