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Fanniidae
The Fanniidae are a small (285 species in five genera) group of true flies largely confined to the Holarctic and temperate Neotropical realms; there are 11 Afrotropical species, 29 Oriental, and 14 Australasian. Adults are medium-sized to small and usually have mainly dark body and leg colours. Males congregate in characteristic dancing swarms beneath trees; females are more retiring in habit. Larvae are characterised by their flattened bodies with striking lateral protuberances, and live as scavengers in various kinds of decaying organic matter. The lesser housefly '' Fannia canicularis'' is a worldwide synanthropic species. Fanniidae are indicators useful in forensic entomology. Identifying characteristics The Fanniidae were once a subfamily of Muscidae from which they may be distinguished by: *A (strictly) dorsal bristle is on the hind tibia below the middle and in addition to the dorsal preapical. *The axillary vein is strongly curved towards the wingtip, so if extended, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanniidae
The Fanniidae are a small (285 species in five genera) group of true flies largely confined to the Holarctic and temperate Neotropical realms; there are 11 Afrotropical species, 29 Oriental, and 14 Australasian. Adults are medium-sized to small and usually have mainly dark body and leg colours. Males congregate in characteristic dancing swarms beneath trees; females are more retiring in habit. Larvae are characterised by their flattened bodies with striking lateral protuberances, and live as scavengers in various kinds of decaying organic matter. The lesser housefly '' Fannia canicularis'' is a worldwide synanthropic species. Fanniidae are indicators useful in forensic entomology. Identifying characteristics The Fanniidae were once a subfamily of Muscidae from which they may be distinguished by: *A (strictly) dorsal bristle is on the hind tibia below the middle and in addition to the dorsal preapical. *The axillary vein is strongly curved towards the wingtip, so if extended, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fannia (fly)
''Fannia'' is a very large genus of approximately 288 species of flies. The genus was originally described by the French entomologist Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1830. A number of species were formerly placed in the genus ''Musca''. Description The adults have plumose arista, with the first pre-sutural dorsocentral bristle over half than half as long as the second. Males without a lower orbital bristle. Species list *'' Fannia abnormis'' (Stein, 1900) *'' Fannia abrupta'' Malloch, 1924 *'' Fannia admirabilis'' Albuquerque, 1958 *'' Fannia aequilineata'' Ringdahl, 1945 *'' Fannia aethiops'' Malloch, 1913 *'' Fannia alaskensis'' Chillcott, 1961 *'' Fannia alpina'' Pont, 1970 *'' Fannia albisquama'' Wang & Zhang, 2008 *'' Fannia annosa'' Chillcott, 1961 *'' Fannia anthracinalis'' Domínguez & Pont, 2014 *'' Fannia arcuata'' Chillcott, 1961 *'' Fannia arizonensis'' Chillcott, 1961 *'' Fannia armata'' ( Meigen, 1826) *'' Fannia atra'' (Stein, 1895) *'' Fannia atripes'' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euryomma (fly)
''Euryomma'' is a genus of species of flies of the family Fanniidae. The genus was originally proposed by the entomologist Paul Stein in 1899. Although at that time most authorities placed them in the family Muscidae. The distribution of ''Euryomma'' is mainly Neotropical, on the whole restricted to the Americas, there is also one Nearctic species, the exception being of the very cosmopolitan '' E. peregrinum'' ( Meigen, 1826) Description With bare arista (as in Fannia), with the first pre-sutural dorsocentral bristle less than half as long as second. Males have a lower orbital bristle. Species list * '' Euryomma aburrae'' Grisales et al., 2012 * '' Euryomma americanum'' Chillcott, 1961 * '' Euryomma annosa'' Chillcott, 1961 * '' Euryomma arcuata'' Chillcott, 1961 * '' Euryomma campineira'' Carvalho & Pamplona, 1979 * '' Euryomma carioca'' Albuquerque, 1956 * '' Euryomma chitarera'' Grisales et al., 2012 * '' Euryomma cornuatum'' Grisales et al., 2012 * '' Euryomma eryth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piezura
''Piezura'' is a small genus of small flies of the family Fanniidae. Distribution is mostly restricted to the Holarctic biogeographic region. Two species, '' P. pardalina'' and '' P. graminicola'' are found in Europe. Unlike the other Fanniidae, ''Piezura'' have plumose arista. Species *'' P. graminicola'' (Zetterstedt Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (20 May 1785 – 23 December 1874) was a Sweden, Swedish Naturalism (philosophy) , naturalist who worked mainly on Diptera and Hymenoptera. Biography Zetterstedt studied at the Lund University, University of Lund, where ..., 1846) *'' P. nearctica'' Chillcott, 1961 *'' P. nigrigenus'' Nishida, 1975 *'' P. pardalina'' Rondani, 1866 *'' P. pardalina shanxiensis'' Xue, 1999 References Fanniidae Muscoidea genera Taxa named by Camillo Rondani {{Muscoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australofannia
''Australofannia'' is a genus of flies of the family Fanniidae. There is only one known species, '' Australofannia spiniclunis'' Pont, 1977, from southeastern Australia. The genus was first described by the English entomologist Adrian C. Pont Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word ''adur'', meaning "sea" or "water". The Adria was until the 8th century BC the mai ... in 1977. References Fanniidae Muscoidea genera {{Muscoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muscidae
Muscidae are a family of flies found in the superfamily Muscoidea. Muscidae, some of which are commonly known as house flies or stable flies due to their synanthropy, are worldwide in distribution and contain almost 4,000 described species in over 100 genera. Most species are not synanthropic. Adults can be predatory, hematophagous, saprophagous, or feed on a number of types of plant and animal exudates. They can be attracted to various substances including sugar, sweat, tearand blood. Larvae occur in various habitats including decaying vegetation, dry and wet soil, nests of insects and birds, fresh water, and carrion. The Housefly, housefly, ''Musca domestica'', is the best known and most important species. Some, from the genera ''Hydrotaea'' and ''Muscina'', are involved in forensic case studies.aces the linkCluichí Identifying characteristics The antennae are three-segmented and aristate; vein Rs is two-branched, a frontal suture is present, and the calypters are we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesser House Fly
The lesser house fly or little house fly, ''Fannia canicularis'', is somewhat smaller () than the common housefly. It is best known for its habit of entering buildings and flying in jagged patterns in the middle of a room. It is slender, and the median vein in the wing is straight. Larvae feed on all manner of decaying organic matter, including carrion. Morphology ''Fannia canicularis'' is a slim fly reaching a length of from 4 to 6 mm. The white-bordered eyes meet above in the male, a condition described as holoptic. In females, the eyes do not meet. The brown-grey thorax has three black, longitudinal stripes in the males. These are much less distinct in the female. The first two segments of the abdomen are translucently yellow with a dark-brown basal colour. The dark trapezoid marks of the males are hardly recognizable in the females. The halteres are yellowish. Development The females lay their eggs in batches of up to 50 and may lay up to 2,000 eggs altogether. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forensic Entomology
Forensic entomology is the scientific study of the colonization of a dead body by arthropods. This includes the study of insect types commonly associated with cadavers, their respective life cycles, their ecological presences in a given environment, as well as the changes in insect assemblage with the progression of decomposition. Insect succession patterns are identified based on the time a given species of insect spends in a given developmental stage, and how many generations have been produced since the insects introduction to a given food source. Insect development alongside environmental data such as temperature and vapor density, can be used to estimate the time since death, due to the fact that flying insects are attracted to a body immediately after death. The identification of postmortem interval to aid in death investigations is the primary scope of this scientific field. However, forensic entomology is not limited to homicides, it has also been used in cases of neglect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Rondani
Camillo Rondani (21 November 1808 – 17 September 1879) was an Italian entomologist noted for his studies of Diptera. Early life, family and education Camillo Rondani was born in Parma when the city was part of the French Empire Napoleon having crowned himself King of Italy. The Rondani family were wealthy landowners and of "rich and of ancient origins" with ecclesiastical connections preliminary. Camillo's early education was in a seminary. He then passed into the public school system where, encouraged by Macedonio Melloni his physics and chemistry teacher in the preparatory course for the University of Parma, he did not attend the law lessons though his family had insisted. He attended mineralogy classes given by a Franciscan priest Father Bagatta and was taught natural history, a complementary course to botany for Medicine and Pharmacy. The Reader of Botany to the Athenaeum Parmesan was Professori Giorgio Jan, assistant at the Imperial Museum in Vienna and holder of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erwin Lindner
Erwin Lindner (7 April 1888 – 30 November 1988) was a German entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He was born in Böglins, Memmingen and died in Stuttgart, aged 100 years. In 1913 Erwin Lindner joined the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and was head of the Department of Entomology there until 1953. He edited ''Die Fliegen der paläarktischen Region'' (the Flies of the Palaearctic Region), a twelve-volume seminal work on the systematics and anatomy of the flies of the |
Willi Hennig
Emil Hans Willi Hennig (20 April 1913 – 5 November 1976) was a Germans, German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of Phylogenesis, phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a POWs in World War II, prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans (true flies). Hennig coined the key terms synapomorphy, Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy, and paraphyly. He also asserted, in his "auxiliary principle", that "the presence of apomorphous characters in different species 'is always reason for suspecting kinship [i.e., that species belong to a monophyletic group], and that their origin by convergence should not be presumed a priori' (Hennig, 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frons
Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is similar to that used for other arthropods due to their shared evolutionary history. Three physical features separate insects from other arthropods: they have a body divided into three regions (called tagmata) (head, thorax, and abdomen), have three pairs of legs, and mouthparts located ''outside'' of the head capsule. It is this position of the mouthparts which divides them from their closest relatives, the non-insect hexapods, which includes Protura, Diplura, and Collembola. There is enormous variation in body structure amongst insect species. Individuals can range from 0.3 mm ( fairyflies) to 30 cm across ( great owlet moth); have no eyes or many; well-developed wings or none; and legs modified for running, jumping, swimming, or even digging. These modifications allow insects to occupy almost every ecological niche on the planet, except the dee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
