Brachymeria podagrica (Fabricius, 1787)
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Brachymeria podagrica (Fabricius, 1787) View in CoL
Chalcis podagrica View in CoL FabriciUS 1787: 272. Original deScription ♂. India, TranqUebar. Lectotype by BoUček 1972: 241.
Brachymeria podagrica View in CoL (FabriciUS): BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis femorata View in CoL NeeS 1834: 412. Original deScription. Germany. Synonymy by Dalla Torre 1898: 391. Type apparently deStroyed.
= Chalcis Fonscolombei View in CoL DUfoUr 1841: 16 – 17. Original deScription ♀. SoUthern France. Lectotype by BUrkS (1936). Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis alphius Walker 1846a: 108 View in CoL . Original deScription ♂. India, Bombay. Lectotype and Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis xerxena Walker 1846a: 108 View in CoL – 109. Original deScription ♂. India, Bombay. Lectotype and Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis restituta Walker 1862: 351 View in CoL – 352. Original deScription Jamaica. Lectotype and Synonymy by BoUček & DelVare 1992: 30.
= Chalcis pulchripes Holmgren 1868: 436 View in CoL – 437. Original deScription ♂. PhilippineS, Manila. Lectotype and Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis mansueta Walker 1871: 48 View in CoL – 49. Original deScription ♀. Hong-Kong. Lectotype and Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis callipus Kirby 1883: 75 View in CoL . Original deScription ♀. Japan. Lectotype and Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis mikado Cameron 1888: 117 View in CoL . Original deScription ♀. Japan. Lectotype and Synonymy par BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis eccentrica Cameron 1897: 39 View in CoL . Original deScription ♂. India, Bombay. Lectotype and Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis ferox Kieffer 1905: 263 View in CoL – 264. Original deScription ♀ ♂. ReUnion ISland [BoUrbon] and MadagaScar, NoSSi-Bé. Syn. nov. Synonymy With B. fonscolombei View in CoL by Steffan 1959: 42.
= Chalcis ferox Var. coxalis Kieffer 1905: 264 View in CoL . Original deScription ♀. MadagaScar, NoSSi-Bé. Syn. nov. Synonymy With B. fonscolombei View in CoL by Steffan 1959: 42.
= Chalcis borneanus Cameron 1905a View in CoL : Original deScription ' ♀'. Borneo. Lectotype ♂ and Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Chalcis spilopus Cameron 1905b: 231 View in CoL . Original deScription ♀. SoUth Africa View in CoL , TranSVaal. Syn. nov.
= Chalcis capensis Cameron 1905b: 311 View in CoL – 312. Original deScription ♀. SoUth Africa View in CoL , Katberg. Syn. nov.
= Chalcis transvaalensis Cameron 1911: 214 View in CoL – 215. Original deScription ♀. SoUth Africa View in CoL . Syn. nov.
= Tumidicoxoides kurandaensis GiraUlt 1913: 86 View in CoL . Original deScription ♀. AUStralia, QUeenSland. Synonymy by BoUček 1988: 72.
= Chalcis dipterophaga GiraUlt & Dodd in GiraUlt 1915: 320 View in CoL – 321. Original deScription ♀. AUStralia, QUeenSland. Synonymy by BoUček 1988: 72.
= Tumidicoxoides paucipunctatus GiraUlt 1915: 326 View in CoL . Original deScription ♀. AUStralia, Northern Territory. Synonymy by BoUček 1988: 72.
= Chalcis neglecta MaSi 1916: 84 View in CoL . Original deScription ♀. Italia, Giglio. Syn. nov. Synonymy With B. fonscolombei View in CoL by Steffan 1959: 42.
= Chalcis sodalis MaSi 1917: 128 View in CoL – 129. Original deScription ♀ ♂. SeychelleS ISlandS: Mahé, SilhoUette. Syn. nov. Synonymy With B. fonscolombei View in CoL by Steffan 1959: 42.
= Chalcis vegai GiraUlt 1924: 175 View in CoL . Original deScription ♀. AUStralia, QUeenSland. Synonymy by BoUček, 1988: 72.
= Chalcis garutianus Günther in Hellen &Günther 1936: 73 View in CoL – 74. Original deScription ♀. JaVa, Kamodjan. Lectotype and Synonymy by BoUček 1972: 241.
= Brachymeria Fonscolombei Var. View in CoL gananensis MaSi 1938: 210 – 212. Original deScription ♀. Somalia, Belet-Amin and MogadiScio. Syn. nov.
= Chalcis vulcani Schmitz 1946: 63 View in CoL – 64. Original deScription ♂. RUanda, BUrambi (Volcan MUhaVUra). Syn. nov.
= Brachymeria aligarhensis Husain & Agarwal 1982: 499 View in CoL – 501. Original description ♀. India, Uttar-Pradesh. Synonymy by Narendran 1989: 260.
Material examinated. Type material. Chalcis Fonscolombei. Lectotype, a pinned ♀ from the Dufour collection, identified by Steffan (MNHN) ( Figs 29, 30 View FIGURES 29 – 39. 29 ).
Chalcis capensis . Lectotype, a ♀ on a minutien pin, the designation of which by Bouček (1971) is validated here ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 29 – 39. 29 ) (BMNH).
Chalcis transvaalensis . Lectotype, a ♀ in several pieces, remounted on a rectangular card, the designation of which by Bouček (1971) is validated here ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 29 – 39. 29 ) (BMNH).
Chalcis spilopus . Lectotype, a ♂ on a minutien pin, the designation of which by Bouček (1971) is validated here (BMNH, Hym. type 5.155).
Chalcis ferox . Lectotype, a ♂ on a minutien pin, the designation of which by Rasplus is validated here; it is labelled 'Bourbon [manuscript] / Chalcis ferox Sauss. type ♂' [manuscript, in Kieffer's handwriting] ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 29 – 39. 29 ) (MNHN). The ♀ quoted by Kieffer (1905) from Nossi Bé could not be retrieved.
Chalcis ferox var. coxalis . Lectotype, a pinned ♂ labelled 'Madag.' [manuscript] / ' Ch. ferox Sss. ' [manuscript] / ' Chalcis ferox Ss. var.' [manuscript, in Kieffer's handwriting] ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 29 – 39. 29 ) (MNHN).
Chalcis neglecta View in CoL . Lectotype, a ♀ glued on a rectangular card, the designation of which by Bouček (1971) is validated here; it is labelled 'Is. Giglio vii 901 G. Doria' / ' Chalcis neglecta Masi 1916 View in CoL typus!' [manuscript, in Masi's handwriting] / ' ♂ Brachymeria neglecta (Masi) View in CoL = podagrica View in CoL (F.) Bouček det. 1971' [manuscript, in Bouček's handwriting] ( Fig. 37 View FIGURES 29 – 39. 29 ) (MCSN).
Brachymeria Fonscolombei View in CoL var. gananensis . Lectotype, the designation of which by Bouček (1971) is validated here, labelled 'EL DUGUL Somalia Italiana E. Confalonieri' / ' Brachymeria Fonscolombei View in CoL subsp. gananensis Masi ♀ det. L. Masi' [manuscript in Masi's handwriting] / 'co-typus' / 'Lectotype' [in BMNH format] with 'Bčk 1971' in the underside ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 29 – 39. 29 ) (MCSN).
Chalcis vulcani . Holotype ♂, by original designation (MRAC, n° 567).
Other material. PERU. Trujillo , Huaca de la Luna, 08°08′06″S 78°59′29″W, 56 m, 06.v/ 01.vi.2009, in fly trap, J.- B. Huchet and A. Chauchet leg. (1 ♀ GDPC) GoogleMaps . FRANCE. Bouches-du-Rhône , Istres, 01.vii.2003, P. Ponel leg. (1 ♂ GDPC) ; Gard , Le-Grau-du-Roi, l'Espiguette beach, 24.v.1997, G. Delvare leg. (1 ♀ GDPC) ; Hérault , Agde, Rochelongue, 29.vii.1979, J.- M. Maldès leg. (1 ♀ GDPC) ; Montpellier , campus ENSA, on mackerel corpse, 15.ix.2000, M. Martinez leg. (3 ♀ GDPC) ; same locality and collector, ex Sarcophaga proxima Rondani [ Sarcophagidae ] on a snake carcass, adult emergence 10/ 13.vi.2003 (2 ♀, 11 ♂ GDPC) ; Lot-et-Garonne , Buzetsur-Baïsse, 30.v.1995, Malaise trap, J.- P. Sarthou leg. (1 ♀ GDPC) . SPAIN. Tarragona , Cambrils-de-Mar, 30.v.1990, H. Tussac leg. (2 ♂ GDPC) .
Comment. Steffan (1959) previously synonymised C. ferox Kieffer and its variety C. ferox coxalis with B. fonscolombei , as well as C. neglecta Masi. Brachymeria fonscolombei was itself synonymised later with B. podagrica by Bouček (1972). The name podagrica was known from Dufour (1841) but because the type was described from India he thought that the European specimens belonged to another species, which he named Chalcis Fonscolombei in honour of Boyer de Fonscolombe. This name was adopted by subsequent authors until Bouček (1972) synonymised it with B. podagrica .
Brachymeria . podagrica was sometimes mixed with B. parvula (Walker) under its junior synonym Chalcis Dalmanni Thomson , especially by Stefani (1889) because the females of both species have the metafemur mostly reddish. It is nevertheless evident that Stefani dealt with B. podagrica because he reared his specimens from flies emerging from carrion while B. parvula is a secondary parasitoid of locusts.
Diagnosis. Apex of scape reaching base of median ocellus. Antennal flagellum mostly linear, hardly fusiform or clavate and bearing short erect setae only ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 21 – 28. 21 ‒ 24 ). Mesonotum with moderately dense puncturation, the interspaces between punctures narrower that the points themselves ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 21 – 28. 21 ‒ 24 ). Propodeum without spiracular callosity. Metacoxa and metafemur reddish, the latter with a small ivory spot apically. Metafemur slender 1.85 – 1.95× as long as broad, with an acute inner tooth basally; its outer surface with relatively dense puncturation, the basal piliferous points hardly more distant from each other than their own diameter ( Fig. 24 View FIGURES 21 – 28. 21 ‒ 24 ). Metatibia reddish, respectively with a subbasal and dorsoapical ivory spots. Gaster acuminate, 1.8 – 2.0× as long as broad ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 21 – 28. 21 ‒ 24 ).
Hosts and biology. Table 1 lists the known hosts of the species and the authorships of the observations. Dubious host records are not included in the table, especially those for the hyperparasitoids of locusts which, as already mentioned by Steffan (1959), result from past confusion with B. parvula. We also omitted the hosts quoted for B. amenocles , which until now was wrongly mixed with B. podagrica following Bouček (1972) (see below).
Sarcophagidae View in CoL (18 species) are predominant in the list of known hosts, which also includes a number of Calliphoridae View in CoL (11 species) together with a few Muscidae View in CoL . Cultures made by several authors (Stefani 1889; Parker 1924; Roberts 1933; Carlos 2014) showed that females emerging from sarcophagid hosts were always much more numerous compared to those that developed at the expense of the two other dipterous families. These flies often feed on corpses of various vertebrates, primarily mammals, but also from snakes (Beaver 1936; Michel Martinez pers. com.) and even fishes, as shown by the trapping of B. podagrica View in CoL by exposing mackerel corpses (Michel Martinez, pers. com.). Some blowflies, such as Cochliomyia macellaria (Fabricius) (Calliphoridae) View in CoL , also figure in the spectrum of hosts. The presence of individuals along the Mediterranean seaside (see above, examined material) suggests that B. podagrica View in CoL is normally resident in this habitat, possibly searching for larval stages of flies developing at the expense of fish corpses washed up on the shore.
HoSt SpecieS HoSt family Reference and diStribUtion
Ophyra aenescens (Wiedemann, 1830) MUScidae Marchiori et al. 2003a View in CoL and 2003c: Brazil Ophyra Sp. View in CoL MUScidae View in CoL CarloS 2014: Brazil
Synthesiomyia nudiseta (WUlp, 1883) View in CoL MUScidae View in CoL RobertS 1933: USA
Philornis Sp. View in CoL MUScidae CoUri et al. 2006 View in CoL : Brazil
Calliphora coloradensis HoUgh, 1899 View in CoL Calliphoridae View in CoL RobertS 1933: USA
Calliphora grahami Aldrich, 1930 Calliphoridae HabU 1960: Japan
Cochliomyia macellaria (FabriciUS, 1775) Calliphoridae RobertS 1933: USA
Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819) View in CoL Calliphoridae Marchiori et al. 2002b View in CoL and 2003a; CarloS 2014: Brazil Chrysomya megacephala View in CoL (FabriciUS, 1794) Calliphoridae View in CoL CarloS 2014: Brazil
Hemilucilia flavifacies Enderlein, 1931 Calliphoridae Marchiori et al. 2003b View in CoL ; CarloS 2014: Brazil Lucilia caesar View in CoL (LinnaeUS, 1758) Calliphoridae View in CoL BUrkS 1960: USA
Lucilia illustris (Meigen, 1826) View in CoL Calliphoridae View in CoL BUrkS 1960: USA
Phaenicia mexicana (MacqUart, 1843) Calliphoridae RobertS 1933: USA
Phaeanicia sericata (Meigen, 1826) Calliphoridae View in CoL RobertS 1933: USA: OliVa 2008: Argentina Phormia regina (Meigen, 1826) View in CoL Calliphoridae View in CoL BUrkS 1960: USA
Kellymyia plinthopyga (Wiedemann, 1830) Sarcophagidae View in CoL RobertS 1933: USA
Kellymyia impar (Aldrich, 1916) Sarcophagidae RobertS 1933: USA
Kellymyia plinthopyga (Wiedemann, 1830) Sarcophagidae RobertS 1933: USA
Oxysarcodexia thornax (Walker, 1849) View in CoL Sarcophagidae Marchiori et al. 2002a View in CoL and 2003a; GonçalVeS et al. 2012;
CarloS 2014: Brazil
Peckia chrysostoma (Wiedemann, 1830) View in CoL Sarcophagidae Marchiori 2001 View in CoL ; Marchiori et al. 2003a; CarloS 2014: Brazil Sarcophaga africa (Wiedemann, 1824) View in CoL Sarcophagidae View in CoL DUfoUr 1841: France [Under S. haemorrhoidalis ]: RobertS
1933: USA
(RobineaU-DeSVoidy, 1830) Sarcophagidae UrSU & TUdor 1975; AndrieScU 1988: Romania; OliVa 2008:
Argentina
Sarcophaga carnaria View in CoL (LinnaeUS, 1758) Sarcophagidae Stefani 1889 View in CoL : Italy: Sicily; BUrkS 1960: USA Sarcophaga crassipalpis MacqUart, 1839 View in CoL Sarcophagidae OliVa 2008 View in CoL : Argentina
Sarcophaga dux ThompSon, 1869 View in CoL Sarcophagidae View in CoL ChoWdhUry & HoWlader 1975: BangladeSh Sarcophaga exuberans Pandellé, 1896 View in CoL Sarcophagidae View in CoL ChoWdhUry & HoWlader 1975 and 1978: BangladeSh Sarcodexia lambens (Wiedemann, 1830) View in CoL Sarcophagidae Marchiori et al. 2003a View in CoL ; GonçalVeS et al. 2012; CarloS 2014:
Brazil
Sarcophaga musitasi CUrran, 1934 Sarcophagidae Fry 1989 View in CoL : PakiStan
Sarcophaga peregrina View in CoL
RobineaU-DeSVoidy, 1830 Sarcophagidae HabU 1960: Japan
Sarcophaga proxima Rondani, 1860 View in CoL Sarcophagidae Martinez View in CoL perS. comm.: France (preSent pUblication) Sarcophaga Sp. View in CoL Sarcophagidae Parker 1924 View in CoL : France (cUltUre) Sarcophaga Sp. View in CoL ex corpSe Achatina fulica View in CoL Sarcophagidae View in CoL BeaVerS 1986: Thailand
Sarcophaga tuberosa (Pandellé, 1896) View in CoL Sarcophagidae View in CoL FabritiUS & AndrieScU 1987; AndrieScU 1988: Romania As is the case for the other species belonging to the minuta group, B. podagrica View in CoL is a solitary larval-pupal endoparasitoid ( Dufour 1841; Stefani 1889; Parker 1924; Roberts 1933). The latter author studied in detail the biology, ethology and phenology of B. podagrica View in CoL , collecting copious samples and conducting large scale rearing of flies with the aim of evaluating the potential of the chalcidid to regulate the populations of the blowfly. All the above authors found a clear preference of B. podagrica View in CoL for the pre-imaginal stages of Sarcophagidae View in CoL relative to those of Calliphoridae View in CoL , often rejecting the latter family. This might be explained by the fact that the adults of the Brachymeria View in CoL , having emerged from the puparia of Calliphoridae View in CoL , are much smaller in size—sometimes only half the size—than those emerging from Sarcophagidae View in CoL , apparently relating to differences in the size of the hosts themselves ( Roberts 1933).
Females of B. podagrica View in CoL oviposit within the body of the last larval stage of the host, which survives until pupation. Oviposition is especially induced by the presence of fluids issuing from the animals attacked by the flies, whether from living tissues or decaying corpses. The female uses her posterior legs to hold the larva, which promptly reacts to her attack. Reproduction is of the preovigenic type; the single mating occurs very soon after emergence of the imagos and is quickly followed by oviposition. This might be an adaptation to the presence of a large number of host larvae, grouped into clusters on decaying carrion. In temperate regions B. podagrica View in CoL diapauses during winter in the last larval or prepupal stage, within the host puparium. Several generations occur during summertime ( Roberts 1933).
Distribution. Brachymeria podagrica is a cosmopolitan species, recorded from 45 countries (Noyes 2016), distributed from Australia to Sweden and Argentina. In the Neotropical Region the chalcidid is recorded from Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, Brazil and Argentina. Its region of origin is not known and it is possible that is was introduced by Europeans when colonising the Americas.
Chalcis amenocles Walker and Brachymeria Beccarii Masi were synonymised with B. podagrica by Bouček (1972). However, examination of their types show that they belong to another distinct and valid species which is revalidated here.
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Brachymeria podagrica (Fabricius, 1787)
Delvare, Gérard & Huchet, Jean-Bernard 2017 |
Brachymeria aligarhensis
Narendran 1989: 260 |
Husain 1982: 499 |
Chalcis podagrica
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Brachymeria podagrica
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Chalcis borneanus
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Chalcis vulcani
Schmitz 1946: 63 |
Brachymeria Fonscolombei Var.
MaSi 1938: 210 |
Chalcis garutianus Günther in Hellen &Günther 1936 : 73
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Hellen 1936: 73 |
Chalcis vegai
BoUcek 1988: 72 |
GiraUlt 1924: 175 |
Chalcis sodalis
Steffan 1959: 42 |
MaSi 1917: 128 |
Chalcis neglecta
Steffan 1959: 42 |
MaSi 1916: 84 |
Chalcis dipterophaga GiraUlt & Dodd in GiraUlt 1915 : 320
BoUcek 1988: 72 |
GiraUlt 1915: 320 |
Tumidicoxoides paucipunctatus
BoUcek 1988: 72 |
GiraUlt 1915: 326 |
Tumidicoxoides kurandaensis
BoUcek 1988: 72 |
GiraUlt 1913: 86 |
Chalcis transvaalensis
Cameron 1911: 214 |
Chalcis ferox
Steffan 1959: 42 |
Kieffer 1905: 263 |
Chalcis ferox Var. coxalis
Steffan 1959: 42 |
Kieffer 1905: 264 |
Chalcis spilopus
Cameron 1905: 231 |
Chalcis capensis
Cameron 1905: 311 |
Chalcis femorata
Dalla 1898: 391 |
Chalcis eccentrica
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Cameron 1897: 39 |
Chalcis mikado
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Cameron 1888: 117 |
Chalcis callipus
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Kirby 1883: 75 |
Chalcis mansueta
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Walker 1871: 48 |
Chalcis pulchripes
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Holmgren 1868: 436 |
Chalcis restituta
BoUcek 1992: 30 |
Walker 1862: 351 |
Chalcis alphius
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Walker 1846: 108 |
Chalcis xerxena
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
Walker 1846: 108 |
Chalcis
BoUcek 1972: 241 |
DUfoUr 1841: 16 |