Verticia

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Verticia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Calliphoridae
Subfamily:
Bengaliinae
Genus:
Verticia

Malloch, 1927
Species

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Verticia is a genus of flies (Diptera) in the family Calliphoridae. The genus was first described by John Russell Malloch in 1927. [1] [2]

Contents

Species [3]

Biology

The larva of the species Verticia fasciventris are parasites and develop in the heads of termites. [4] [5]

The genus name was also used for Bacteria (the species Verticia sediminum) in 2015. [6] A renaming to Verticiella was proposed in 2016 when the name was discovered to be a later homonym. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Senior-White, Ronald; Aubertin, Daphne; Smart, John (1940). Family Calliphoridae. London: Taylor and Francis.
  2. ↑ Malloch, J. R. (1927-07-01). "II.—The species of the genus Stenomicra Coquilett (Diptera, Acalyptrata)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 20 (115): 23–26. doi:10.1080/00222932708655560. ISSN   0374-5481.
  3. ↑ Rognes, K. (2011). A review of the monophyly and composition of the Bengaliinae with the description of a new genus and species, and new evidence for the presence of Melanomyinae in the Afrotropical Region (Diptera, Calliphoridae). Zootaxa, 2964(1), 1–60. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2964.1.1
  4. ↑ Sze, Tsang Wing; Pape, Thomas; Toole, Desmond K. (2008-03-01). "The first blow fly parasitoid takes a head start in its termite host (Diptera: Calliphoridae, Bengaliinae; Isoptera: Macrotermitidae)" . Systematics and Biodiversity. 6 (1): 25–30. doi:10.1017/S1477200007002605. ISSN   1478-0933. S2CID   86121837.
  5. ↑ Neoh, Kok-Boon; Lee, Chow-Yang (2011-04-11). "The Parasitoid, Verticia fasciventris Causes Morphological and Behavioral Changes in Infected Soldiers of the Fungus-Growing Termite, Macrotermes carbonarius". Journal of Insect Science. 11 (47): 47. doi:10.1673/031.011.4701. ISSN   1536-2442. PMC   3281457 . PMID   21861651.
  6. ↑ Vandamme, Peter A.; Peeters, Charlotte; Cnockaert, Margo; Inganäs, Elisabeth; Falsen, Enevold; Moore, Edward R. B.; Nunes, Olga C.; Manaia, Célia M.; Spilker, Theodore (2015-10-01). "Bordetella bronchialis sp. nov., Bordetella flabilis sp. nov. and Bordetella sputigena sp. nov., isolated from human respiratory specimens, and reclassification of Achromobacter sediminum Zhang et al. 2014 as Verticia sediminum gen. nov., comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (10): 3674–3682. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000473 . hdl: 10216/103590 . ISSN   1466-5034. PMID   26220296.
  7. ↑ Vandamme, Peter A. (2016-09-05). "Proposal of Verticiella gen. nov. as replacement for the illegitimate prokaryotic genus name Verticia Vandamme 2015". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (12): 5099–5100. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001477 . PMID   27599730.
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