Melanophora roralis

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Melanophora roralis
Melanophora roralis female. A woodlouse parasite, found in a basement apartment. Mt. Pleasant, Washington, DC, USA.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Rhinophorinae
Tribe: Phytonini
Genus: Melanophora
Species:
M. roralis
Binomial name
Melanophora roralis
Synonyms

Melanophora roralis is a species of woodlouse fly in the family Calliphoridae. [13] [14]

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Description

M. roralis is 3–5.5 millimetres (0.12–0.22 in) long, black in colour with hairy antennae and a shiny thorax.

Distribution

It was introduced to North America from Europe [15] and can be found from Southern Ontario [16] to Chile and Argentina. [17]

Ecology

Species fly from mid-May to October and inhabit old forests and damp areas near the shore. [16] The females of this species have a distinctive white spots at the tips of their wings [18] and lay from 189 to 238 eggs in 6.5 to 7.5 hours. [19] It takes up to 21 days for the species' to pupate. It is a parasite of Porcellio scaber . [20]

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References

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  14. ↑ Yan, Liping; Pape, Thomas; Meusemann, Karen; Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan; Meier, Rudolf; Bayless, Keith M; Zhang, Dong (2021). "Monophyletic blowflies revealed by phylogenomics". BMC Biology. 19 (230). Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  15. ↑ Jones, F.M. (1948). "Notes on Melanophora roralis". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology . 55: 31–34. doi: 10.1155/1948/74989 .
  16. 1 2 "Melanophora roralis". The Insects of Southern Ontario. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Long-distance introduction: first New World record of Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) and a key to the genera of New World Rhinophoridae (Diptera)" (PDF). Zootaxa . 2524. Magnolia Press: 66–68. 2010. ISSN   1175-5326.
  18. ↑ Marshall, Steven A. (2006). Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: with a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America. Firefly Books. p. 718. ISBN   9781552979006.
  19. ↑ J. Van Voorst (1991). The Entomologist. p. 182.
  20. ↑ Warburg, Michael R. (1993). Evolutionary Biology of Land Isopods. Haifa: Springer. pp. 172pp. ISBN   978-3662218914.


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