Muscina stabulans

• Main Authors: Hänel, Christine, Pont, Adrian C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Muscidae; Muscina; Muscina stabulans; Tristan; Tristan Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5458362; https://zenodo.org/record/5458362

Muscina stabulans (FALLÉN, 1817) New locality record for Nightingale Island. First recorded by FREY (1954: 43-44) from Tristan Island. Additional records are reported by BAIRD (1965: 426) and HOLDGATE (1965: 397). Cosmopolitan in distribution. Adults are synanthropic. Larvae are saprophagous at first, becoming facultative carnivores later; they breed in decaying animal and vegetable matter, though apparently not excrement, and are recorded as parasitoids of other insects and as occasionally causing myiasis in higher mammals. Four male specimens collected at Nightingale Island in 2005. NIGHTINGALE, East Landing area below shacks, coastal boulders with penguin colony and tussock, 37°25'09"S 12°28'44"W, Malaise, 1.iv.2005, site 1, sample 1, C. HÄNEL, 4 ♂♂ (alcohol). : Published as part of Hänel, Christine & Pont, Adrian C., 2008, Houseflies of the Tristan da Cunha Islands: new records, including the first for Fannia albitarsis S, 1911 (Diptera: Fanniidae, Muscidae), pp. 211-222 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (1) on page 217, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.1.211-222, http://zenodo.org/record/5364451 : {"references": ["FREY, R. 1954: Diptera Brachycera und Sciaridae von Tristan da Cunha. - Results of the Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Tristan da Cunha 1937 - 1938 26: 1 - 55.", "BAIRD, D. E. 1965: The effects of the eruption of 1961 on the fauna of Tristan da Cunha. Part V. - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 249: 425 - 434.", "HOLDGATE, M. W. 1965: The biological report of the Royal Society Expedition to Tristan da Cunha, 1962. Part III. The fauna of the Tristan da Cunha Islands. - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 249: 361 - 402."]}