Fannia canicularis (LINNAEUS, 1761)

Hänel, Christine & Pont, Adrian C., 2008, Houseflies of the Tristan da Cunha Islands: new records, including the first for Fannia albitarsis S, 1911 (Diptera: Fanniidae, Muscidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (1), pp. 211-222 : 216

Fannia canicularis (LINNAEUS, 1761)

First recorded by FREY (1954: 43) from Tristan, Nightingale and Inaccessible Islands. OLDROYD (1958: 79) then recorded it from Gough Island. These records are summarised in PONT (1977: 125). Additional finds are reported from Gough by JONES et al. (2003: 255) and from Inaccessible by CARVALHO & COURI (1999: 211).

Cosmopolitan in distribution. It has been reared from a wide range of decaying animal and vegetable matter, fungi, manure, etc, where the larvae are saprophagous.

One female specimen collected on Tristan Island in 2005:

TRISTAN DA CUNHA, up Molly Gulch , on rim, below Dailies Hill, grassland mix, Blechnum palmiforme, Malaise trap, ± 2270 ft., 37°11'44"S 12°33'53"W, 15-21.ii.2005, site 7, sample 18, C. HÄNEL, 1 ♀ (pinned) .

MUSCIDAE