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Platystomatinae
Platystomatinae is a subfamily of flies (Diptera) in the family Platystomatidae (Signal flies) that includes 80 genera, the largest subfamily with at last estimate, species globally. Subfamily classification The Platystomatidae were comprehensively divided into five subfamilies, but more recent reviews of morphology suggest that some aspects of this classification are unsatisfactory. This led to reducing the number of subfamilies to four, being the Plastotephritinae, Platystomatinae, Scholastinae and Trapherinae Angitulinae being subsumed into Platystomatinae. The most relevant diagnostic characters include: both the upper and lower calypters form a distinct lobe (in some genera these are equally undeveloped); the katepisternal setae absent; tergite 5 is well-developed; elongate terminal filaments on the sclerotised glans of the male distiphallus, each terminating in a gonopore. Biology Members of the family Platystomatidae tend to occur in forest and forest margin habitat ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platystomatidae
The Platystomatidae (signal flies) are a distinctive family of flies (Diptera) in the superfamily Tephritoidea. Signal flies are worldwide in distribution, found in all the biogeographic realms, but predominate in the tropics. It is one of the larger families of acalyptrate Diptera with around 1200 species in 127 genera. Biology Adults are found on tree trunks and foliage and are attracted to flowers, decaying fruit, excrement, sweat, and decomposing snails. Larvae are found on fresh and decaying vegetation, carrion, human corpses, and root nodules, particularly in the genus ''Rivellia'', which has economic implications for legume crops. Larvae from the remaining genera are either phytophagous (eating plant material) or saprophagous (eating decomposing organic matter). Some are predatory on other insects and others have been found in human lesions, while others are of minor agricultural significance. Family description For terms see Morphology of Diptera Signal flies are very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brea (fly)
Brea may refer to: Mythology * Brea (mythology), an Irish mythological god People * Anthony José Brea Salazar, a Venezuelan professional racing cyclist * Armando Bréa, a Brazilian middle-distance runner * Benjamín Brea, a Venezuelan musician * Brea Grant, an American actress * Cirilo de Alameda y Brea O.F.M. Obs. (1781-1872), Spanish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Diego de Brea, Slovenian theatre director * Jennifer Brea, an American documentary filmmaker and activist * Julián Brea, Argentine professional football forward * Lesli Brea, a former Major League Baseball player * Ludovico Brea, a Renaissance painter * Luigi Bernabò Brea, Italian archaeologist * María Isabel Soldevila Brea, Dominican journalist, academician, and television presenter * Teodosio César Brea, Argentine lawyer Places * Brea, California, United States * Brea, Cornwall, United Kingdom * Brea (Chalcidice), a town of ancient Macedonia, Greece * Brea (Thrace), an ancient Greek colony f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platystoma Lugubre
''Platystoma lugubre'' is a species of fly in the family Platystomatidae. Subspecies Subspecies include: *''Platystoma lugubre corsicarum'' Séguy, 1932 *''Platystoma lugubre lugubre'' ( Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) Distribution This species is present in most of Europe and in the Near East. Habitat These flies mainly inhabit the edges of forests, parks, gardens, woodlands, scrubs and cemeteries. Description ''Platystoma lugubre'' can reach a length of . These medium-sized flies have a body mottled with greyish and yellow. The upperside of the abdomen is shiny black with two large spots of yellow gray pollonisity. The lower part of the abdomen is lemon yellow. The large eyes are reddish. Halteres are redish yellow. Legs are black. Wings are black, mottled with transparent spots.George C. SteyskaKeys to The Insects of The European Part of The USSR/ref> This species is rather similar to ''Platystoma seminationis'', but the latter is clearly smaller and quite common. Biology Adul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elassogaster
''Elassogaster'' is a genus of scavenger flies (Diptera) belonging to the family Platystomatidae. They are native to warm regions of Africa, Madagascar, Asia and Australia. They have rounded heads with red eyes, a shiny green thorax and a dark stigma on the wing tips. Adults frequent the vicinity of dung or carcasses, where they walk while constantly waving their wings. The larvae develop in dung. Species *'' E. aerea'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. anteapicalis'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. arcuata'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. brachialis'' ( Rondani, 1873) *'' E. calida'' ( Wiedemann, 1830) *'' E. didyma'' ( Osten Sacken, 1881) *'' E. didymoides'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. flavipes'' ( Schiner, 1868) *'' E. floresana'' Hennig, 1941 *'' E. hilgendorfi'' Enderlein, 1924 *'' E. hyalipennis'' Malloch, 1931 *'' E. immaculata'' ( Macquart, 1843) *'' E. inflexus'' ( Fabricius, 1805) *'' E. linearis'' (Walker, 1849) *'' E. metallica'' Bigot, 1860 *'' E. nigripes'' Malloch, 1940 *'' E. potens'' Frey, 1930 *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Georg Hendel
Friedrich Georg Hendel (14 December 1874- 26 June 1936) was an Austrian high school director and entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He described very many new species and made important contributions to the higher taxonomy of the Diptera. He was born in Vienna and died in Baden bei Wien. His collection is in the Vienna Natural History Museum The Natural History Museum Vienna (german: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) is a large natural history museum located in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the most important natural history museums worldwide. The NHM Vienna is one of the largest museum .... Works Selection 1908-1914 *1908 Nouvelle classification des mouches à deux ailes (Diptera L.), d’après un plan tout nouveau par J. G. Meigen, Paris, an VIII (1800 v.s.). ''Mit einem Kommentar. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges.Wien'' 58: 43-69. *1910 Über die Nomenklatur der Acalyptratengattungen nach Th. Beckers Katalog der paläarktischen Dipteren, Bd. 4. ''Wien. Ent. Ztg.'' 29: 307-313. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Karsch
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch or Karsch-Haack (2 September 1853, in Münster – 20 December 1936, in Berlin) was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist. The son of a doctor, Karsch was educated at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and published a thesis on the gall wasp in 1877. From 1878 to 1921 he held the post of curator at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Between 1873 and 1893, he published a catalogue of the spiders of Westphalia; he also published numerous articles on the specimens that the museum received from various explorers and naturalists working in Africa, in China, in Japan, in Australia, etc. This publication of others' work sometimes led to disputes over priority and nomenclature, for example with Pickard-Cambridge. Alongside his zoological activities, he published many works on sexuality and, in particular, homosexuality in both the animal kingdom and in so-called "primitive" peoples, including ''Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
