Published December 2, 2009 | Version v1
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Melanophora roralis

  • 1. Centro Nazionale per lo Studio e la Conservazione della Biodiversità Forestale " Bosco Fontana " - Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Via Carlo Ederle 16 / a, I- 37100 Verona, Italy. E-mail: pierfilippocerretti @ yahoo. it & Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Sapienza Università di Roma, Viale dell'Università 32, I- 00185 Rome, Italy.
  • 2. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, Department of Entomology, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: tpape @ snm. ku. dk

Description

Melanophora roralis (Linnaeus, 1758)

(Fig. 12)

Musca roralis Linnaeus, 1758: 597. Type locality: “Europa”.

Material examined. Numerous males and females in MZUR and ZMUC.

References. Herting 1961: 32; Crosskey 1977: 51; Kugler 1978: 70, 79; Crosskey 1980: 819; Herting 1993: 116.

Description. See Crosskey (1977).

Distribution. Europe (including Sicily and Sardinia), North Africa, Israel, Cape Verde Islands (introduced to eastern North America and South America).

Notes

Published as part of Cerretti, Pierfilippo & Pape, Thomas, 2009, Phylogeny and re-definition of the genus Melanophora (Diptera: Rhinophoridae), with description of a new species from Sardinia *, pp. 552-565 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 558

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Order
Myriangiales
Family
Elsinoaceae
Genus
Melanophora
Species
roralis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melanophora roralis (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Cerretti & Pape, 2009

References

  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10 th ed., Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [= Stockholm], 824 pp.
  • Herting, B. (1961) 64 e. Rhinophorinae. In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, 216. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, pp 1 - 36.
  • Crosskey, R. W. (1977) A review of the Rhinophoridae (Diptera) and a revision of the Afrotropical species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Series, 36 (1), 1 - 66.
  • Kugler, J. (1978) The Rhinophoridae (Diptera) of Israel. Israel Journal of Entomology, 12, 65 - 106.
  • Crosskey, R. W. (1980) 93. Family Rhinophoridae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 819 - 821.
  • Herting, B. (1993) Family Rhinophoridae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol. 13, Anthomyiidae - Tachinidae. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, pp. 102 - 117.