Biology:Elgiva cucularia

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Short description: Species of fly

Elgiva cucularia
Elgiva cucularia, Harlech, North Wales, April 2013 (16803827715).jpg
Elgiva cucularia North Wales
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Genus: Elgiva
Species:
E. cucularia
Binomial name
Elgiva cucularia
(Linnaeus, 1767)

Elgiva cucularia is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic .[1][2][3] Larvae of E. cucularia are predators of aquatic, pulmonate snails in the families Lymnaeidae, Physidae, and Planorbidae. [4]

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I,II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN:81-205-0080-6 ISBN:81-205-0081-4
  3. Séguy, E. (1934) Diptères: Brachycères. II. Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 28 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf
  4. L.V. Knutson and C. O. Berg , 2014 Biology and Immature Stages of Snail-Killing Flies: The Genus Elgiva (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. (1964) 57 (2): 173-192.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q14251911 entry