Dohrniphora cornuta, (Bigot)

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 35-36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7926426
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F3581C07-193C-FFA5-D29F-F8C0FC0B48A4
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Dohrniphora cornuta
status

Treatment

cornuta (Bigot) View in CoL View at ENA

Phora cornuta Bigot, 1857: 348 View in CoL .

Dohrniphora cornuta: Borgmeier 1960: 277 View in CoL [review]; Linsley & Usinger 1966: 167 [checklist]; Peck et al. 1998: 228 [introduced species]; Causton et al. 2006: 134 [introduced species]; Disney & Sinclair 2008: 120 [review].

Dohrniphora venusta ( Coquillett, 1895a: 107) View in CoL . Curran 1932: 353 [records]; Curran 1934: 152 [records].

Dohrniphora crockeri Van Duzee, 1933: 70 View in CoL . Curran 1934: 152 [as syn. of D. venusta View in CoL ]; Borgmeier 1960: 277 [as syn. of D. cornuta View in CoL ].

Dohrniphora willowsi Van Duzee, 1933: 70 View in CoL . Borgmeier 1960: 277 [as syn. of D. cornuta View in CoL ]; Linsley & Usinger 1966: 167 [checklist].

Distribution. Introduced. Cosmopolitan; Galápagos: Floreana, Isabela, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Santiago.

Remarks. Adults of this species were found in humid and dry zones. Adults have been reared from decaying molluscs and swept from vegetation along seacoasts ( Bohart 1947).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Phoridae
Genus	Dohrniphora