Gymnosoma rotundatum

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Gymnosoma rotundatum
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Gymnosoma rotundatum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Phasiinae
Tribe: Gymnosomatini
Genus: Gymnosoma
Species:
G. rotundatum
Binomial name
Gymnosoma rotundatum
Synonyms

Gymnosoma rotundatum is a parasitoid fly found in Europe and Asia. [4] [5] [6]

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Description

Gymnosoma rotundatum, sometimes referred to as a ladybird fly, is a small 5-6mm long fly. It has a dark thorax, golden in males, and a globular orange abdomen decorated with dark rounded markings along the midline. [4] The base of the wings are yellow-brown. [7]

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Behaviour

The larvae grow as parasites of shield bugs in the Pentatomidae family. In Britain, the species is often recorded in warm dry sites, where it visits a range of open shallow flowers. [8]

Distribution

British Isles, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Russia, Transcaucasia, China, Japan, Taiwan.

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References

  1. 1 2 Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae... Ed. 10, Vol. 1. Holmiae [= Stockholm]: L. Salvii. pp. 824 pp. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 Harris, M. (1780). An exposition of English insects. Vol. Decads III, IV. London: Robson Co. pp. 73–99, 100–138, pls. 21–30, 31–40. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  3. ↑ Matsumura, Shonen (1916). Thousand insects of Japan. Additamenta Vol. 2 (Diptera). Tokyo: Keisei-sha. pp. 185–474 + [4], pls. 16–25.
  4. 1 2 Smith, M (2022). "The genome sequence of Gymnosoma rotundatum (Linnaeus, 1758), a parasitoid ladybird fly". Wellcome Open Research. 7: 104. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17782.1 . PMC   8987346 . PMID   35419492.
  5. ↑ Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN   0-901546-82-8.
  6. ↑ O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "Ladybird Flies - Gymnosoma rotundatum - UK Safari". www.uksafari.com. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  8. ↑ Jang, Sin Ae; Park, Chung Gyoo (2010-03-01). "Gymnosoma rotundatum (Diptera: Tachinidae) attracted to the aggregation pheromone of Plautia stali (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 13 (1): 73–75. Bibcode:2010JAsPE..13...73J. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2009.11.004. ISSN   1226-8615.


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