Spiniphora punctipennis (Zetterstedt)

Disney, R. H. L., Prescher, S. & Ashmole, N. P., 2010, Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) of the Canary Islands, Journal of Natural History 44 (3 - 4), pp. 107-218 : 211

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903371813

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scientific name

Spiniphora punctipennis (Zetterstedt)
status

 

Spiniphora punctipennis (Zetterstedt) View in CoL

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Trineura punctipennis Zetterstedt, 1848 .

This species was described from a single female from Malta. The male was described from Tenerife (Disney 1990).

Previous records

Tenerife.

New records

Five males, 10 females La Gomera, Lomo de Majona , 600 m, 8–24 July 1993 ( R. Hutterer); males and females, Barranco Machoua, 2 February 1994 ( R. Hutterer) .

Natural history

The specimens from La Gomera were all reared from dead snails, Hemicycla efferata (Mousson) .

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Spiniphora

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