Microsania

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Microsania
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Microsania boycei, photographed in Wonbyon, Australia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Platypezidae
Subfamily: Microsaniinae
Genus: Microsania
Zetterstedt, 1837 [1]
Type species
Cyrtoma stigmaticalis
Synonyms

Microcyrta Bigot, 1857 [3]

Platytelma Rondani, 1856 [4]

Pachypeza Lioy, 1863 [5]

Microsania is a genus of flat-footed flies in the family Platypezidae and the sole genus in the smoke fly subfamily Microsaniinae. This cosmopolitan genus is typically attracted to smoke, such as from campfires in natural park settings. Unlike other members of the family, adults often carry variable loads of phoretic mites. The larval habits remain unknown, but some associated mites have been identified as dung- and compost-breeding species of the genus Macrocheles , suggesting these substrates may serve as potential sites for late-stage larvae prior to pupation. [6]

Species

References

  1. ↑ Zetterstedt, J. W. (1837). "Conspectus familiarum, generum et specierum dipterorum, in fauna insectorum Lapponica descriptorum". Isis (Oken's). 21: 28–67.
  2. ↑ Zetterstedt, J.W. (1838). Dipterologis Scandinaviae. Sect. 3: Diptera, pp. 477-868. In his Insecta Lapponica. Lipsiae [= Leipzig]. pp. vi + 1, 140.
  3. ↑ Bigot, J.M.F. (1857). "Essai d'une classification generale et synoptique de l'ordre des insectes diptères. 5e memoire. Tribu des Asilidi (mihi)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 5 (3): 517–564. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  4. ↑ Rondani, Camillo (1856). Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus. Vol: I. Genera italica ordinis Dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata. Parmae [= Parma].: A. Stocchi. pp. 226 + [2]. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  5. ↑ Lioy, P. (1863). "I ditteri distribuiti secondo un nuovo metodo di classificazione naturale". Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.: 719–771.
  6. ↑ Marshall, Stephen A. (2012). Flies: The Natural History and Diversity of Diptera. Firefly Books. p. 408. ISBN 978-1-77085-100-8.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chandler, P.J. (1994). "The Oriental and Australasian species of Platypezidae (Diptera)". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 8 (2): 351–434. doi:10.1071/IT9940351.
  8. ↑ Collart, A. (1955). "Un Microsania nouveau du Congo belge (Diptera, Platypezidae)". Mémoires de la Société entomologique de Belgique. 27: 158–161.
  9. ↑ Collart, A. (1938). "Description d'un Microsania nouveau d'Australie (Diptera: Platypezidae)". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. 14 (16): 1–4.
  10. 1 2 Shatalkin, A.I. (1985). "A survey of Platypezidae (Diptera) of the USSR fauna". Sbornik Trud. Zool. Muz. MGU (in Russian). 23: 69–136.
  11. ↑ Chandler, P.J. (2001). "The flat-footed flies (Diptera: Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europe". Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. 36: 1–278.
  12. ↑ Sinclair, B.J.; Chandler, P.J. (2007). "A new species of Microsania Zetterstedt from Fiji (Diptera: Platypezidae)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 91: 29–32. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  13. ↑ Collart, A. (1936). "Le genre Microsania au Congo belge: M. ghesquierei n. sp. (Dipt.: Clythiidae)". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. 3 (2): 553–557.
  14. ↑ Loew, H. (1866). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria sexta". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. (1865) 9: 127–186. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  15. ↑ Collart, A. (1960). "Mission E. Janssens et R. Tollet en Grece (juillet-aout 1953). 19e Note. Diptera Platypezidae du genre Microsania". Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. 36 (11): 1–4.
  16. ↑ Malloch, J.R. (1935). "The North American species of the dipterous genus Microsania, Zett". Stylops. 4: 65–66.
  17. 1 2 Meigen, J.W. (1830). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Sechster Theil. Schulz. pp. xi + 401 +[3].
  18. 1 2 Collart, A. (1954). "Nouveaux Microsania de Belgique (Diptera, Platypezidae)". Vol. Jubil. Victor van Straelen. 2: 889–898.
  19. ↑ Collart, A. (1934). "Le genre Microsania en Nouvelle-Zelande et description d'une espèce nouvelle". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 10 (32).


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