Melanophora roralis | |
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Scientific classification | |
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 | |
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Melanophora roralis is a species of woodlouse fly in the family Calliphoridae. [13] [14]
M. roralis is 3–5.5 millimetres (0.12–0.22 in) long, black in colour with hairy antennae and a shiny thorax.
It was introduced to North America from Europe [15] and can be found from Southern Ontario [16] to Chile and Argentina. [17]
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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Rhinophorinae is a subfamily of flies (Diptera), commonly known as Woodlouse Flies, found in all zoogeographic regions except Oceania, but mainly in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions.
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Ceromasia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Rondania is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Strongygaster is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Dufouriini is a tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Dexiini is a tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Microsoma is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Microsoma exiguum is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae.
Exorista larvarum is a Palaearctic species of fly in the family Tachinidae.
Leskiini is a tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Bithia spreta is a European species of fly in the family Tachinidae.
Phryxe vulgaris is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae.
Paykullia maculata is a species of fly in the subfamily Rhinophorinae first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1815.
Melanophora is a genus of woodlouse flies in the family Calliphoridae.
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Brachicheta stricata is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae.
Phyto is a genus of flies in the family Rhinophoridae.
Winthemia quadripustulata is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae.