Conicera tibialis Schmitz, 1925

DISNEY, R. H. L., 2003, Tasmanian Phoridae (Diptera) and some additional Australasian species, Journal of Natural History 37 (5), pp. 505-639 : 521-522

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930110096564
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5272482
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B287A2-4245-FF8F-FDF6-FA60FCBCF9B4
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Conicera tibialis Schmitz, 1925
status

Treatment

Conicera tibialis Schmitz, 1925 View in CoL

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Conicera tibialis Schmitz, 1925: 119 View in CoL .

This primarily western Palaearctic species is the infamous coffin fly, but it is not restricted to breeding in buried human corpses (Disney, 1994b). Whether its occurrence in the Azores and the Canary Islands and the occasional Nearctic record is due to introductions by man is not known. Its presence in Tasmania is almost certainly due to man .

Material

Female, Tasmania, Hobart, Battery Point , De Witt Street , garden, 23–31 December 1991 ( R. H. L. Disney —25-4) .