Atherigona orientalis, Schiner, 1868

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 70

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.7926676

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F3581C07-195B-FFC3-D29F-FE08FCB24A30

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Plazi

scientific name

Atherigona orientalis
status

 

orientalis Schiner View in CoL

Atherigona orientalis Schiner, 1868: 295 View in CoL . Pont 1972: 24 [catalogue]; Peck 1996: 122 [mode of introduction]; Peck et al. 1998: 228 [introduced species]; Carvalho et al. 2005: 12 [catalogue]; Causton et al. 2006: 134 [introduced species].

Atherigona pulvinata ( Grimshaw, 1901: 42) View in CoL . Aldrich 1921: 94 [record].

Distribution. Introduced. Cosmopolitan; Galápagos: Española, Floreana, Genovesa, Isabela, Marchena (ICCDRS), San Cristóbal (ICCDRS), Santa Cruz.

Remarks. Larvae inhabit mostly decaying fruit and vegetables, but sometimes carrion ( Pont 1986). Adults of this species were reared from wet, decaying Jasminocereus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Atherigona

Loc

Atherigona orientalis

Sinclair, Bradley J. 2023
2023
Loc

Atherigona pulvinata ( Grimshaw, 1901: 42 )

Aldrich, J. M. 1921: 94
Grimshaw, P. H. 1901: 42
1901
Loc

Atherigona orientalis

Causton, C. E. & Peck, S. B. & Sinclair, B. J. & Roque-Albelo, L. & Hodgson, C. J. & Landry, B. 2006: 134
Carvalho, C. J. B. de & Couri, M. S. & Pont, A. C. & Pamplona, D. & Lopes, S. M. 2005: 12
Peck, S. B. & Heraty, J. & Landry, B. & Sinclair, B. J. 1998: 228
Peck, S. B. 1996: 122
Pont, A. C. 1972: 24
Schiner, J. R. 1868: 295
1868
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