Apetaenus (Macrocanace) littoreus Hutton 1902

• Main Author: Munari, Lorenzo
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Canacidae; Apetaenus; Apetaenus littoreus; Anchorage; Greene; Stella; McIntosh; Proclamation Island; Anchorage Bay; Antipodes Island; Antipodes Islands; Bounty Islands; Eudyptes crestatus; Rockhopper penguin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6227824; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6227824

Apetaenus (Macrocanace) littoreus (Hutton, 1902) (figs. 3–4, 6, 9–10) Milichia littorea Hutton, 1902: 174 [Antipodes Islands (on pools between tide marks); HT ɗ, CMNZ]. Macrocanace littorea.— Tonnoir and Malloch, 1926: 5 [generic combination].— Harrison, 1953: 274 –276 [revision]; 1959: 250 [revision]; 1976: 142 [citation, Antipodes Island, Bounty Islands]. Apetaenus littoreus.— Mathis and Sasakawa, 1989: 667 [generic combination, Australasian/Oceanian catalog].— Mathis and Munari, 1996: 8 [World catalog].— Marris, 2000: 193 [citation, Bounty Islands]. Distribution. Australasian/Oceanian: Antipodes and Bounty islands. Material examined. 15 ɗɗ 5 ΨΨ NZAC—from the Antipodes Islands (Reef Pt, Stella Bay) were examined, all of them formerly determined and published as Macrocanace littorea (Hutton) by Harrison (1976). Other specimens examined. LUNZ—Antipodes Island: Anchorage Bay, ex rockhopper penguin nest, 2.xi. 1995, J. W. M. Marris & T. C. Greene, 3 ɗɗ 1 Ψ; ibidem, sweeping around rocks by penguin colony, 3.xi. 1995, A. R. McIntosh, 1 Ψ; ibidem, yellow pan traps in coastal vegetation (Poa, Crasula, Leptinella, etc.) and rocks near penguin colony, 2–17.xi. 1995, J. W. M. Marris, 2 ΨΨ; ibidem, under rotting Durvillea, 17.xi. 1995, J. W. M. Marris, 1 Ψ. Bounty Islands: Proclamation Island, colonial on rock face, 23.xi. 2004, T. De Roy, 3 ɗɗ 12 ΨΨ [in alcohol, now in the author’s collection (MCNV)]; ibidem, in sludge by penguin nest, 12.xii. 1997, F. Schmechel, 1 ɗ; ibidem, under rock, 25.xii. 1997, F. Schmechel, 2 ɗɗ; ibidem, on rock face, A. M. Booth, 1 ɗ 1 Ψ. Habitat and microhabitats. A very common, thalassobiont fly with the same ecological preferences as the preceding species. It was recorded in the literature from the following microhabitats: on pools between tide marks (Hutton, 1902); swarming on rocks in penguin colonies, leaf mould, tussock (Harrison, 1953); penguin dung, in association with penguin colonies and with other nesting birds (Harrison, 1959); beach, Eudyptes crestatus colony, tussock, in ...