Microcerella acrydiorum ( Weyenbergh, 1875 )

Mariluis, Pablo Ricardo Mulieri Juan Carlos & Patitucci, Luciano Damián, 2010, Review of the Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina), with a key and description of a new species, Zootaxa 2575, pp. 1-37 : 15-16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197479

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6211307

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB0044-0F6A-F312-FF51-C665FCBEFDD9

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scientific name

Microcerella acrydiorum ( Weyenbergh, 1875 )
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Microcerella acrydiorum ( Weyenbergh, 1875) View in CoL

( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 5 – 7. 5 )

Nemorea acrydiorum Weyenbergh, 1875: 85 . Sarcophaga minuta Lahille, 1907: 82 View in CoL .

Xenopiella dyscineti Blanchard, 1966: 182 View in CoL .

Distribution: Neotropical – Argentina (Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Salta, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán), Brazil (São Paulo).

Type material examined: Holotype ɗ of Xenopiella dyscineti Blanchard, Tandil, Tandil , Buenos Aires, 6.XI.1938 ( MACN).

Other material studied: Buenos Aires: 12 ɗ, 10 Ψ Bahia Blanca , Bahia Blanca , VI–IX.2002 reared from meat, De Arriba leg. ( ANLIS); 1 ɗ, 1 Ψ Mar del Tuyú, De la Costa, II.2006, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS).

Remarks: Illustrations of male terminalia were provided by Lopes (1972) and Pape (1990). Mariluis (2005) redescribed the female of this species based on reared specimens, and commented that illustrations given by Lopes (1969b) were based on misidentified females.

Biology: Host. Coleoptera , Scarabaeidae : Dyscinetus gagates Burmeister ( Blanchard 1966) . Lepidoptera , Noctuidae , Alabama argillacea (Hübner) ( Blanchard & De Santis 1975). Mantodea ( Blanchard & De Santis 1975) . Originally Weyenbergh (1875) and Lahille (1907) referred to this species as a parasite of Schistocerca paranaensis (Burmeister) ( Orthoptera, Acridoidea ). It was reared by Crouzel (1950) only on dead Orthoptera . In addition, this species has been reared from dead snails of the genus Ampullaria (Gastropoda, Pomacea) ( Lopes 1969b), and from rotten cow meat ( Mariluis 2005).

MACN

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sarcophagidae

Genus

Microcerella

Loc

Microcerella acrydiorum ( Weyenbergh, 1875 )

Mariluis, Pablo Ricardo Mulieri Juan Carlos & Patitucci, Luciano Damián 2010
2010
Loc

Xenopiella dyscineti

Blanchard 1966: 182
1966
Loc

Nemorea acrydiorum

Lahille 1907: 82
Weyenbergh 1875: 85
1875
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