Spilogona Schnabl, 1911

Ivkovic, Marija & Pont, Adrian C., 2015, New records of Muscidae (Diptera) from Mediterranean countries, ZooKeys 496, pp. 131-144 : 140

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.496.9445

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Spilogona Schnabl, 1911
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Muscidae

Genus Spilogona Schnabl, 1911 View in CoL View at ENA

Remarks.

Spilogona is a genus primarily of high altitudes and high latitudes. Of the 85 European species, only three are known from the Balkan Peninsula. Adults and larvae are predaceous ( Werner and Pont 2006). Adults are mostly found in the vicinity of water, whilst the few known larvae are terrestrial and subaquatic.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae