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Gastrops niger Williston 1897

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).

Notes

Published as part of Mathis, Wayne Neilsen, Júnior, Francisco De Assis Rodrigues & Couri, Márcia Souto, 2016, FAMILY EPHYDRIDAE, pp. 752-770 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 759, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.64, http://zenodo.org/record/267319

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Additional details

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