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Themira Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Description

Themira Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

This is arelatively large genus including species of striking disparity. Foreleg modifications are particularly strong and more pronounced than in Sepsis, Saltella, Meroplius and Nemopoda.Many species of Themira are known to breed in waterfowl dung and are thus common near lakes or rivers with large bird populations or other damp places. There are comparably few records for this genus for Switzerland (with the exception of T. annulipes,which is common on cow pastures), and there are likely more species present that have not been recorded yet (Haenni 1997; Rohner 2015).

Notes

Published as part of Patrick T. Rohner & Gerhard Bächli, 2016, Faunistic data of Sepsidae (Diptera) from Switzerland and additional countries including the first Swiss record of Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984), pp. 237-260 in Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 89 on page 255, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.192634

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Robineau-Desvoidy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sepsidae
Genus
Themira
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Themira Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 sec. Rohner & Bächli, 2016

References

  • Haenni, J. - P. 1997. Sepsidae (Diptera) nouveaux pour la faune de Suisse. - Bulletin Romand d'Entomologie 15: 69 - 78.
  • Ang, Y., Rohner, P. T. & Meier, R. 2015. Across the Baltic: a new record for an enigmatic black scavenger fly, Zuskamira inexpectata (Pont, 1987) (Sepsidae) in Finland. - Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e 4308.