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 which were recorded from Iceland for the first time: Megaselia coccyx Schmitz, 1965; M. humeralis (Zetterstedt, 1838); M. parnassia Disney, 1986; M. quadriseta (Schmitz, 1941)...
| Published in: | Entomologica Fennica |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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This journal is published jointly by the Entomological Society of Finland, the Lepidopterological Society of Finland, the Societas Entomologica Helsingforsiensis and the Entomological Club of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Turku.
2005
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| Online Access: | https://journal.fi/entomolfennica/article/view/84265 https://doi.org/10.33338/ef.84265 |
| Summary: | During a visit to Iceland in 2001, 727 specimens of Phoridae were caught. Seven species of Phoridae were identified, five of which were recorded from Iceland 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. The most abundant and most widespread phorid fly of the study was Megaselia coccyx, of which 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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