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Gastrops niger Williston 1897
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Description
niger Williston, 1897: 3.
Type locality, “ Grenada and Rio de Janeiro”. ST M/F (AMNH).
Distr.: Nearctic: United States (Texas). Neotropical: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico (Oaxaca), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela, West Indies (Dominica, Grenada). Refs.: Bokerman, 1957: 231 –232 (host: egg cluster of frog Physalaemus cuvieri Fitzinger (Leptodactylidae); Wirth, 1958: 249 –250 (review); Lizarralde de Grosso, 1984: 72 (review).
Beckeriella niger; Lizarralde de Grosso, 1998: 49 (generic comb.). Refs.: Menin & Giaretta, 2003: 239 –243 (biology).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Williston
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ephydridae
- Genus
- Gastrops
- Species
- niger
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gastrops niger Williston, 1897 sec. Mathis, Júnior & Couri, 2016
References
- Williston, S. W. (1897) Diptera Brasiliana. Part IV. Kansas University Quarterly, Series A, 6, 1-12.
- Bokerman, W. C. A. (1957) Frog eggs parasited by dipterous Larvae. Herpetologica, 13, 231-232.
- Wirth, W. W. (1958) A review of the genus Gastrops Williston with Description of Two new species (Diptera, Ephydridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 60 (6), 247-250.
- Lizarralde de Grosso, M. S. (1984) Aportes al conocimiento del genero Gastrops Williston (Diptera - Ephydridae). Physis (Buenos Aires), 42 (103), 69-75.
- Lizarralde de Grosso, M. S. (1998) Revision del genero Beckeriella Williston (Diptera, Ephydridae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana, 44 (1), 41-56.
- Menin, M. & Giaretta, A. A. (2003) Predation on foam nests of Leptodactyline frogs (Anura: Leptodactylidae) by larvae of Beckeriella niger (Diptera: Ephydridae). Journal of Zoology, London, 261, 239 - 243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0952836903004138