Dasyphora

Nihei, Silvio Shigueo & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, 2009, The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses, Zootaxa 1976, pp. 1-24 : 11

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DOI

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scientific name

Dasyphora
status

s.s.

Subgenus Dasyphora View in CoL View at ENA s.s.

Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 409 View in CoL (as genus). Type species: Musca agilis Meigen sensu Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [misidentification, = Musca pratorum Meigen, 1826 ].

Diagnosis. Colouration metallic purplish-blue to blackish-blue; wing without maculae. Eye densely setulose. Female with the parafrons entirely setulose or only on upper half. Dorsocentrals 3+4. Prosternum setulose or bare. Wing with basal portion of stem-vein setulose or not dorsally; R1 setulose dorsally and ventrally. First abdominal sternite widely setulose.

Distribution (17 species). Oriental and Palaearctic.

References. Oriental species: Emden (1965), Xue and Chao (1998); Palaearctic: Hennig (1963b, 1964a), Peris and Llorente (1963), Zimin and Elberg (1988), Xue and Chao (1998), Gregor et al. (2002).

Gregor, F., Rozkosny, R., Bartak, M. & Vanhara, J. (2002) The Muscidae (Diptera) of Central Europe. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis (Biologia), 107, 1 - 280.

Emden, F. I. van (1965) Diptera. Vol. 7. Muscidae, Part 1. In: Sewell, R. B. S. & Roonwal, M. L. (Eds), The Fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 647 pp.

Hennig, W. (1963 b) 63 b. Muscidae. Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region, 7 (Lieferung 242), 913 - 960.

Hennig, W. (1964 a) 63 b. Muscidae. Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region, 7 (Lieferung 248), 961 - 1008.

Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Funfter Theil. Schultz, Hamm, 412 pp.

Peris, S. V. & Llorente, V. (1963) Notas sobre Muscini palearticos y revision de las especies espanolas (Diptera, Muscidae). Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural (Seccion Biologica), 61, 209 - 269.

Robineau-Desvoidy, J. B. (1830) Essai sur les Myodaires. Memoires presentes par divers savants a l'Academie des sciences de l'Institut de France, 2, 1 - 813.

Xue, W. & Chao, C., eds. (1998) Flies of China. Vol. 1. Liaoning Science and Technology Press, Shenyang, 1365 pp.

Zimin, L. S. & Elberg, K. Y. (1988) Family Muscidae. In: Bei-Bienko, G. Y. (Ed.), Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Volume 5: Diptera and Siphonaptera. Part 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries & National Science Foundation, Washington DC, pp. 839 - 974.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Tribe

Muscini