Hecamede brasiliensis, (Lima), 1938

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FFACFB44-873F-4C12-90CF-D8442910659A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7925717

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F3581C07-1926-FFBE-D29F-FAFFFCDC4F16

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Hecamede brasiliensis
status

 

brasiliensis (Lima) View in CoL

Gitona brasiliensis Lima, 1950: 251 View in CoL . Wheeler 1961: 750 [records]; Linsley & Usinger 1966: 169 [checklist]; Peck 1996: 122 [mode of introduction]; Peck et al. 1998: 228 [introduced species]; Causton et al. 2006: 134 [introduced species].

Rhinoleucophenga brasiliensis: Brake & Bächli 2008: 291 View in CoL [catalogue].

Distribution. Introduced ( Wheeler 1961). Neotropical; Galápagos: Santa Cruz.

Remarks. This species is an obligate parasitoid of the ensign coccid Praelongorthezia praelonga (Douglas) View in CoL , which lives on citrus plants ( Wheeler 1961; Poppe et al. 2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Drosophilidae

Genus

Hecamede

Loc

Hecamede brasiliensis

Sinclair, Bradley J. 2023
2023
Loc

Gitona brasiliensis

Linsley, E. G. & Usinger, R. L. 1966: 169
Wheeler, M. R. 1961: 750
Lima, A. da & Costa 1950: 251
1950
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