Microcerella austrohartigia Pape, 1990

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 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197479
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6211313
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scientific name	Microcerella austrohartigia Pape, 1990
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Microcerella austrohartigia Pape, 1990 View in CoL

Austrohartigia View in CoL bicoloricauda Lopes, 1981: 334 . (Junior secondary homonym of Mesosthyrsia bicoloricauda Enderlein, 1928 .)

Microcerella austrohartigia Pape, 1990: 50 View in CoL . (New name for Austrohartigia View in CoL bicoloricauda Lopes, 1981 .)

Distribution: Neotropical – Argentina (Buenos Aires), Brazil (Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo).

Material studied: Buenos Aires: 2 Ψ Burzaco, Alte. Brown, I.2006, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS); 2 ɗ, 5 Ψ Burzaco, Alte. Brown, IV–X.2006 reared from bovine liver, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS).

Remarks: Illustrations of male and female terminalia can be found in Lopes (1981).

Biology: Unknown but probably saprophagous. We have reared this species on rotten bovine liver.