New records of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iceland, with a survey of all simultaneously collected Dipteran families
During a visit to Iceland in 2001, 727 specimens of Phoridae were caught. Seven species of Phoridae were identified, five of whichwere recorded fromIceland for the first time: Megaselia coccyx Schmitz, 1965; M. humeralis (Zetterstedt, 1838); M. parnassia Disney, 1986; M. quadriseta (Schmitz, 1941) a...
| Published in: | Entomologica Fennica |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.33338/ef.84265 https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00058253 https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/openagrar_derivate_00028689/2006-385.pdf |
| Summary: | During a visit to Iceland in 2001, 727 specimens of Phoridae were caught. Seven species of Phoridae were identified, five of whichwere recorded fromIceland for the first time: Megaselia coccyx Schmitz, 1965; M. humeralis (Zetterstedt, 1838); M. parnassia Disney, 1986; M. quadriseta (Schmitz, 1941) and M. tarsicia Schmitz, 1926. Themost abundant andmostwidespread phorid fly of the study wasMegaselia coccyx, ofwhich 510 specimens (70% of the catch) on 18 of 29 sampling sites were caught. The female of Triphleba renidens Schmitz, 1927 is given an improved diagnosis, and the abdominal sternite 7 is illustrated for the first time.With the results of this study a total of 11 species of Phoridae have been identified from Iceland. Four of them were also recorded from Greenland and 3 from the Faroe Islands. An overview of all other 36 families of Diptera (more than 48,394 specimens) obtained during the same excursion to Iceland is also presented. |
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