Sylvicola notatus

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Sylvicola notatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Anisopodidae
Genus: Sylvicola
Species:
S. notatus
Binomial name
Sylvicola notatus
(Hutton, 1902)
Synonyms
  • Rhyphus notatusHutton 1902

Sylvicola notatus, also known by the common name outhouse fly, [1] is a species of wood gnat in the family Sylvicola. It is endemic to New Zealand.

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Taxonomy

The species was first described by Frederick Hutton in 1902, who named the species Rhyphus notatus. [2]

Description

Hutton described the species as follows:

Reddish-tawny, the flagellum of the antennas dark-brown. Thorax with five brown stripes, the middle one shorter than the lateral pair; scutellum and metanotum brown. Tips of the femora and tibiae brown. Halteres pale-yellowish. Wings pale brownish; the pterostigma and the tip, from the discal cell outwards, darkish-brown. A distinct round white spot in the submarginal cell, and another, touching it, in the first posterior cell. A brown spot in the anterior basal cell, and another on the chief cross-vein. Posterior cross-vein bordered with brown. Veins brown. [2]

The species body is 6 millimetres long, with a wing length of 6 millimetres. [2]

Distribution

The species is found widely across New Zealand. [2]

References

  1. Scott, RR; Emberson, RM (1999). Handbook of New Zealand Insect Names: Common and Scientific Names for Insects and Allied Organisms. Entomological Society of New Zealand. p. 25. ISBN   978-0-95-976635-6.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Hutton, Captain F. W. (1902). "Additions to the Diptera fauna of New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 34: 179–196. ISSN   1176-6158. Wikidata   Q63443005.