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Sciomyzidae
The family (biology), family Sciomyzidae belongs to the typical flies (Brachycera) of the order (biology), order Fly, Diptera. They are commonly called marsh flies, and in some cases snail-killing flies due to the food of their larvae. Here, the Huttoninidae, Phaeomyiidae and Tetanoceridae are provisionally included in the Sciomyzidae. Particularly the latter seem to be an unequivocal part of this group and are ranked as tribe (biology), tribe of subfamily Sciomyzinae by most modern authors, while the former two are very small lineages that may or may not stand outside the family and are provisionally ranked as subfamilies here. Whether the Salticellinae and the group around ''Sepedon'' warrant recognition as additional subfamilies or are better included in the Sciomyzinae proper is likewise not yet entirely clear. Altogether, the main point of contention is the relationship between the "Huttoninidae", "Phaeomyiidae", Sciomyzidae ''sensu stricto'', and the Helosciomyzidae which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sciomyzinae
Sciomyzinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Sciomyzidae. Genera *Tribe Sciomyzini :*'' Apteromicra'' Papp, 2004 :*'' Atrichomelina'' Cresson, 1920 :*'' Calliscia'' Steyskal, 1975 :*'' Colobaea'' Zetterstedt, 1837 :*'' Ditaeniella'' Sack, 1939 :*''Neuzina'' Marinoni & Knutson, 2004 :*'' Oidematops'' Cresson, 1920 :*'' Parectinocera'' Becker, 1919 :*'' Pherbellia'' Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 :*'' Pseudomelina'' Malloch, 1933 :*'' Psacadina'' Enderlein, 1939 :*'' Pteromicra'' Lioy, 1864 :*'' Sciomyza'' Fallén, 1820 :*'' Tetanura'' Fallén, 1820 *Tribe Tetanocerini :*'' Anticheta'' Haliday, 1838 :*'' Chasmacryptum'' Becker, 1907 :*'' Coremacera'' Rondani, 1856 :*'' Dichetophora'' Rondani, 1868 :*'' Dictya'' Meigen, 1803 :*'' Dictyacium'' Steyskal, 1956 :*'' Dictyodes'' Malloch, 1933 :*'' Ectinocera'' Zetterstedt, 1838 :*'' Elgiva'' Meigen, 1838 :*'' Ethiolimnia'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' Eulimnia'' Tonnoir & Malloch, 1928 :*'' Euthycera'' Latreille, 1829 :*'' Euthycerin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pherbellia Annulipes - 2011-08-21
''Pherbellia'' is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. They occur throughout the world, except for the Subantarctic region. Like many Sciomyzidae, species of this genus have larvae that are predators or parasitoids of snails. The larva of ''P. albovaria'', for example, eats land snails such as '' Anguispira alternata'' and '' A. fergusoni'', and then pupates in the empty shell. The ''P. albocostata'' larva eats up to five snails and then pupates in the ground litter next to the last empty shell. The larva of ''P. inflexa'' attacks the glass snail '' Zonitoides arboreus''. ''P. punctata'' is a parasitoid on the amber snail ''Succinea putris''. ''P. anubis'' larvae feed on several types of freshwater snails along the edges of ponds and marshes. Several ''Pherbellia'' are predators of the pond snail ''Stagnicola palustris''. While most snail-killing flies target land and freshwater pulmonate snails, ''P. prefixa'' preys on the mossy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sciomyzini
Sciomyzini is a tribe of flies in the family Sciomyzidae. Genera *''Apteromicra'' Papp, 2004 *''Atrichomelina'' Ezra Townsend Cresson, Cresson, 1920 *''Calliscia'' Steyskal, 1975 *''Colobaea'' Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Zetterstedt, 1837 *''Ditaeniella'' Pius Sack, Sack, 1939 *''Neuzina (fly), Neuzina'' Marinoni & Knutson, 2004 *''Oidematops'' Ezra Townsend Cresson, Cresson, 1920 *''Parectinocera'' Theodor Becker, Becker, 1919 *''Pherbellia'' Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy, Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 *''Pseudomelina'' John Russell Malloch, Malloch, 1933 *''Psacadina'' Günther Enderlein, Enderlein, 1939 *''Pteromicra'' Lioy, 1864 *''Sciomyza'' Carl Fredrik Fallén, Fallén, 1820 *''Tetanura'' Carl Fredrik Fallén, Fallén, 1820 References Sciomyzidae Brachycera tribes {{Sciomyzoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrichomelina
''Atrichomelina'' is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. Biology The larvae kill and consume aquatic pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ... snails of various species. Species *'' A. pubera'' ( Loew, 1862) References Sciomyzidae Sciomyzoidea genera {{Sciomyzoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepedon
''Sepedon'' is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. Species *Subgenus '' Mesosepedon'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. convergens'' Loew, 1862 :*'' S. dispersa'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. ethiopica'' Steyskal, 1956 :*'' S. pleuritica'' Loew, 1862 :*'' S. schoutedeni'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. tuckeri'' Barraclough, 1985 *Subgenus '' Parasepedon'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. acrosticta'' Verbeke, 1956 :*'' S. albocostata'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. edwardsi'' Steyskal, 1956 :*'' S. iris'' Verbeke, 1961 :*'' S. ituriensis'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. katangensis'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. knutsoni'' Vala, Gbedjissi & Dossou, 1994 :*'' S. lippensi'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. maculifemur'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. madecassa'' Verbeke, 1961 :*'' S. magerae'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. monacha'' Verbeke, 1961 :*'' S. nanoides'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. neavei'' Steyskal, 1956 :*'' S. notambe'' Speiser, 1910 :*'' S. ochripes'' Verbeke, 1950 :*'' S. ophiolimnes'' Steyskal, 1956 :*'' S. or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apteromicra
''Apteromicra parva'' is a wingless species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae The family (biology), family Sciomyzidae belongs to the typical flies (Brachycera) of the order (biology), order Fly, Diptera. They are commonly called marsh flies, and in some cases snail-killing flies due to the food of their larvae. Here, t ... from Nepal. It is the only described species in the genus ''Apteromicra''. References Sciomyzidae Insects described in 2004 Diptera of Asia Endemic fauna of Nepal {{Sciomyzoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helosciomyzidae
The Helosciomyzidae are a small family of flies found exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. With the exception of the South American genus '' Sciogriphoneura'', helosciomyzids occur only in Australia and New Zealand (including The Snares and the Auckland Islands). Taxonomy and history The earliest grouping of helosciomyzid genera was as a subfamily of Sciomyzidae, Helosciomyzinae, proposed by George C. Steyskal in 1965 and which initially consisted of the genera ''Helosciomyza'', ''Xenosciomyza'', and ''Polytocus'', with the monotypic genus ''Eurotocus'' added to this grouping by Steyskal in 1978. Helosciomyzinae was elevated to family rank by G. C. D. Griffiths in 1972, including the genera ''Huttonina'' and ''Prosochaeta'', which Steyskal had previously classified as belonging to the sciomyzid subfamily Huttoninidae and which were later excluded from Helosciomyzidae in a 1981 revision of the family by Jeffrey K. Barnes. In this same 1981 revision Barnes added five new genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limnia Unguicornis (Wollenberg)
''Limnia unguicornis'' is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic . The eyes have four purple longitudinal stripes, two medial and two marginal.The head is rufous with brown spots on each side: white face. The third segment of the antennae is blackish at apex the remainder brownish red.The arista is white. The brown ocellar plate is extended to the anterior margin in a depressed band.The thorax is rufous-brown with two grey mesonotal bands. The prothoracic bristles are ciliform. Rufous legs. The wings membrane is studded with numerous pale spots separated by a brown network. For terms see Morphology of Diptera. ''Limnia unguicornis'' is carnivorous (occasionally coprophagous).Mature larvae have been recorded feeding on ''Succinea putris''.Rozkošný, R., 1984 ''The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark''. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica ''Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica'' is a scientific book series of entomology, entomological ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sphaeriidae
Sphaeriidae is a family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ... of small to minute freshwater bivalve molluscs in the order (biology), order Sphaeriida. In the US, they are commonly known as pea clams or fingernail clams.William H. Heard (biologist), Heard, William H. 1977. Reproduction of fingernail clams (Sphaeriidae: ''Sphaerium'' and ''Musculium''). Malacologia, 16: 421-455. The Sphaeriidae is actually an important group of freshwater invertebrates, seeing as they play a huge role in the energy flow and the nutrient cycling within aquatic ecosystems, in which they constitute a food item for organisms of higher trophic levels and even contribute to the bioturbation of sediments which can help create a physical resource for many other species that utilize the shells. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biological Life Cycle
In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of stages of the life of an organism, that begins as a zygote, often in an egg, and concludes as an adult that reproduces, producing an offspring in the form of a new zygote which then itself goes through the same series of stages, the process repeating in a cyclic fashion. "The concept is closely related to those of the life history, Developmental biology, development and ontogeny, but differs from them in stressing renewal." Transitions of form may involve growth, asexual reproduction, or sexual reproduction. In some organisms, different "generations" of the species succeed each other during the life cycle. For Embryophyte, plants and many algae, there are two multicellular stages, and the life cycle is referred to as alternation of generations. The term life history is often used, particularly for organisms such as the red algae which have three multicellular stages (or mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies, which are explained as a result of convergent evolution. The arrangement of the members of a polyphyletic group is called a polyphyly .. [Source for pronunciation.] It is contrasted with monophyly and paraphyly. For example, the biological characteristic of warm-bloodedness evolved separately in the ancestors of mammals and the ancestors of birds; "warm-blooded animals" is therefore a polyphyletic grouping. Other examples of polyphyletic groups are algae, C4 photosynthesis, C4 photosynthetic plants, and Xenarthra#Evolutionary relationships, edentates. Many taxonomists aim to avoid homoplasies in grouping taxa together, with a goal to identify and eliminate groups that are found to be polyphyletic. This is often the stimulus for major re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Stackelberg
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Stackelberg (sometimes Shtakel'berg; ; 1897–1975) was a Russian entomologist. Stackelberg was born in St. Petersburg and specialised on Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advance ..., notably Syrphidae. He joined the staff of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences in 1920, and in 1929 he was made the director of the Diptera Division. From 1942 he was the head of the Department of Entomology. He taught entomology to I. A. Rubtsov, B. B. Rohdendorf, Ye. N. Savchenko, and N. A. Violovitch. He wrote over 160 scientific papers. Selected works Fauna USSR series *1970 Family Milichiidae. ''Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR; Diptera and Siphonaptera''. [In Russian; English translation published in 1988 by the Smithsonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
