Philornis torquans ( Nielsen, 1913 )

Patitucci, Luciano Damián, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo, Olea, Maria Sofia & Mariluis, Juan Carlos, 2013, Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Argentina: revision of Buenos Aires province fauna, with a pictorial key to species, Zootaxa 3702 (4), pp. 301-347 : 321-322

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3702.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6164750

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scientific name

Philornis torquans ( Nielsen, 1913 )
status

 

Philornis torquans ( Nielsen, 1913) View in CoL

( Figs. 7 View FIGURES 6 – 7 , 44 View FIGURES 42 – 47 )

Material examined. ARGENTINA : BUENOS AIRES: 1 male, Campana, Río Luján, 27-XII-2008, Di Iorio & Turienzo leg. ( MACN); 2 females, 1 male, Campo de Mayo, 12-XII-2009, Di Iorio & Turienzo leg. ( MACN); 2 males, Campo de Mayo, 16-I-2010, Di Iorio & Turienzo leg. ( MACN); 1 male, Capital Federal, Ciudad Universitaria, 05-IV-2008, Patitucci leg. ( MACN); 3 males, Chascomús, on Passer domesticus , 28-I-10, Di Iorio & Turienzo leg. ( MACN). CÓRDOBA: 2 males, La Falda, 25-I-2009, Di Iorio & Turienzo leg. ( MACN). LA PAMPA: 1 female, Santa Rosa, on A. annumbi , 8-IV-08, Di Iorio & Turienzo leg. ( MACN).

Distribution in Argentina ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 42 – 47 ): Buenos Aires; Córdoba (new record); La Pampa (new record); Santa Fe, Tucumán.

References for Argentina View in CoL . Couri et al. (2009); Garcia (1952); Nielsen (1913); Turienzo & Di Iorio (2010).

Remarks. Nielsen (1913) briefly described the species and later a detailed redescription was made by Dodge (1968). The immature stages were studied by Skidmore (1985).

Biology. Larvae of P. torquans are a subcutaneous parasite found in several families of birds in Argentina ( Turienzo & Di Iorio 2007).

MACN

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Philornis

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