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Thoracochaeta Duda 1918

  • 1. School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N 1 G 2 W 1; e-mail: samarsha @ uoguelph. ca
  • 2. Department of Entomology, Silesian Museum, Tyršova 1, CZ- 746 01 Opava, Czech Republic; e-mail: rohacek @ szmo. cz
  • 3. Shenzhen Fairylake Botanical Garden, Fairylake Rd 160, Luohu District, Shenzhen, China 518004; e-mail: fishdh @ gmail. com
  • 4. Invertebrate Zoology, Royal Alberta Museum, 12845 - 102 nd Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T 5 N 0 M 6; e-mail: buckmb @ gmail. com

Description

Genus Thoracochaeta Duda, 1918

Thoracochaeta Duda, 1918. – HAYASHI (2005b): 293 –297 [diagnosis, taxonomy, key to Japanese species, illustr.].

Thoracochaeta accola Roháček & Marshall, 2000. Distr.: Palaearctic: Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Ukraine.

Thoracochaeta accola. – GATT (2004): 115 [new record from Cyprus].

Thoracochaeta brachystoma (Stenhammar, 1855). Distr.: Afrotropical: Cameroon, Ghana, Seychelles, South Africa, Yemen; Australasian / Oceanian: Australia (NSW), Cook Is., Hawaii (USA), Micronesia (Yap Is.), New Caledonia, Palau (USA); Nearctic: Canada (NB, NS, PE, QC), USA (CT, FL, MA, NH, NY, RI, TX); Neotropical: Antigua, Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Chile, Dominica, Easter I., Jamaica, Juan Fernández Is. (Chile), Mexico (QNR, YUC), Peru, Turks & Caicos, Venezuela; Oriental: Indonesia (Sumatra), Philippines; Palaearctic: Algeria, Azores (Portugal), Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is. (Spain), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Israel [record missing from previous catalog], Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Madeira (Portugal), Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania,? Russia (CET), Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates; South Atlantic: Gough I., Tristan da Cunha.

Thoracochaeta brachystoma. – NASH et al. (2001): 203 [record from Ireland]; ROHÁČEK (2004b): 258 [new record from Cyprus]; GATT (2007): 305 [new record from Morocco]; GATT (2008): 701 [new record from United Arab Emirates]; KARPA (2008): 28 [record from Latvia].

Leptocera brachystoma. – PANTELEEVA (2005): 492 [a doubful record from Russia: CET].

Thoracochaeta erectiseta Carles-Tolrá, 1994. Distr.: Palaearctic: Canary Is. (Spain), Great Britain, Italy (Sicily), Morocco, Spain (Balearic Is.).

Thoracochaeta erectiseta. – GATT (2007): 305 [new record from Morocco].

Thoracochaeta gemina Roháček & Marshall, 2000. Distr.: Palaearctic: Japan, Russia (FE).

Thoracochaeta gemina. – HAYASHI (2005b): 293 [diagnosis, key, new record from Japan].

Thoracochaeta mediterranea Munari, 1989. Distr.: Palaearctic: Croatia, Cyprus, Italy (Pantelleria I.), Malta, Spain (Balearic Is.).

Thoracochaeta mediterranea. – ROHÁČEK (2004b): 259 [new record from Cyprus].

Thoracochaeta setifer Hayashi, 2005. Distr.: Palaearctic: Japan.

Thoracochaeta setifer Hayashi, 2005b: 294 [both sexes, key, taxonomic notes, illustr.]. Type locality: Japan, Hokkaido, Nemuro, Nemuro. HT male (NIID).

Thoracochaeta zosterae (Haliday, 1833). Distr.: Nearctic: Canada (NB, NS, ON, PE), USA (ME); Neotropical: Argentina; Palaearctic: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faeroe Is. (Denmark), Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (NET, FE, SET), Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey; South Atlantic: Gough I.; South Indian Ocean: Île Saint Paul.

Thoracochaeta zosterae. LUTOVINOVAS et al. (2003): 408 [new record from Lithuania].

Notes

Published as part of Marshall, Stephen A., Roháček, Jindřich, Dong, Hui & Buck, Matthias, 2011, The state of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera: Acalyptratae): a world catalog update covering the years 2000 - 2010, with new generic synonymy, new combinations, and new distributions, pp. 217-298 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (1) on pages 281-282, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5327684

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Duda
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sphaeroceridae
Genus
Thoracochaeta
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Thoracochaeta Duda, 1918 sec. Marshall, Roháček, Dong & Buck, 2011

References

  • HAYASHI T. 2005 b: A new species and a new record of the genus Thoracochaeta (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from Japan, with a key to the Japanese species. Medical Entomology and Zoology 56: 293 - 297.
  • GATT P. 2004: Additional records of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from Malta and Cyprus, with distributional and biological notes. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 109: 109 - 118.
  • NASH R., O'CONNOR J. P. & CHANDLER P. J. 2001: The Irish species of lesser dung flies (Insecta: Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) including a list of type specimens described by Alexander Henry Haliday in Humboldt University Museum, La Specola and the National Museum of Ireland. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 25: 180 - 210.
  • ROHACEK J. 2004 b: New records of Clusiidae, Anthomyzidae and Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from Cyprus, with distributional and taxonomic notes. In: KUBIK S. & BARTAK M. (eds.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca 11. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 109: 247 - 264.
  • GATT P. 2007: New records of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from the Mediterranean, with distributional notes. Studia Dipterologica 13 (2006): 297 - 308.
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  • KARPA A. 2008: Catalogue of Latvian flies (Diptera: Brachycera). Latvijas Entomologs 46: 4 - 43.
  • PANTELEEVA N. YU. 2005: Semeistvo Sphaeroceridae. [Family Sphaeroceridae]. Pp. 492 - 493. In: NEGROBOV O. P. (ed.): Kadastr bespozvonochnykh zhivotnykh Voronezhkoi oblasti. [Cadastre of invertebrate animals of the Voronezh region]. Voronezhkii gosudarstvennyi universitet, Voronezh, 825 pp. (in Russian).
  • LUTOVINOVAS E., PAKALNISKIS S., PETRASIUNAS A. & RIMSAITE J. 2003: A supplement to the Diptera fauna of Lithuania. Acta Zoologica Lituanica 13: 403 - 410.