Muscina stabulans (FALLÉN, 1817)

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 : 217

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.1.211-222

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5458363

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/813287B7-C30E-984E-FEAC-FBA2F02EFA5D

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Felipe

scientific name

Muscina stabulans (FALLÉN, 1817)
status

 

Muscina stabulans (FALLÉN, 1817) View in CoL

New locality record for Nightingale Island.

First recorded by FREY (1954: 43-44) from Tristan Island. Additional records are reported by BAIRD (1965: 426) and HOLDGATE (1965: 397).

Cosmopolitan in distribution. Adults are synanthropic. Larvae are saprophagous at first, becoming facultative carnivores later; they breed in decaying animal and vegetable matter, though apparently not excrement, and are recorded as parasitoids of other insects and as occasionally causing myiasis in higher mammals.

Four male specimens collected at Nightingale Island in 2005.

NIGHTINGALE, East Landing area below shacks, coastal boulders with penguin colony and tussock, 37°25'09"S 12°28'44"W, Malaise, 1.iv.2005, site 1, sample 1, C. HÄNEL, 4 ♂♂ (alcohol) GoogleMaps .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Muscina

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