Published December 17, 2012 | Version v1
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Tinearia alternata

  • 1. Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ- 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: marketa. omelkova @ seznam. cz
  • 2. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: jan. jezek @ quick. cz

Description

Tinearia alternata (Say, 1824)

Published records. Horní Břečkov, Pod Šobesem (JEŽEK et al. 2005).

Material examined. Citonice (9), J, v., Inv. No. 5371; Znojmo, Granický potok brook (27), ♀, v., Inv. No. 5337; Znojmo, river nr. Kraví hora hill (28), J, v., Inv. No. 5365; Podmolí, trickle (36), J, v., Inv. No. 5331; Šafov (41), ♀, ix., Inv. No. 5995; Šatov (42), ♀, vi., Inv. No. 7592; Hnanice, Šobes vineyard and Nad papírnou (45), ♀, viii., Inv. No. 8357.

Comment. A cosmopolitan species, generally very common. The larvae are saprobiontic, psammobiontic, coprobiontic, or associated with fungi; they develop in organic matter in spring areas, brooks, wet meadows, and excrements. In cases of their mass occurrence, the larvae can block the function of older biological filters in gravel sewage works.

Notes

Published as part of Omelková, Markéta & Ježek, Jan, 2012, A new species of the genus Trichomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae) and new faunistic data on non-phlebotomine moth flies from the Podyjí NP and its surroundings (Czech Republic), pp. 505-533 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 526, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332309

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Say
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Psychodidae
Genus
Tinearia
Species
alternata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tinearia alternata (Say, 1824) sec. Omelková & Ježek, 2012

References

  • JEZEK J., KUBIK S. & BARTAK M. 2005: Psychodidae. Pp. 78 - 85. In: BARTAK M. & KUBIK S. (eds.): Diptera of Podyji National Park and its environs. Ceska zemedelska univerzita v Praze, Fakulta agrobiologie, potravinovych a prirodnich zdroju, Praha, 432 pp.