Biology:Melanophora roralis

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Melanophora roralis
Melanophora roralis female. A woodlouse parasite, found in a basement apartment. Mt. Pleasant, Washington, DC, USA.jpg
female
Scientific classification edit
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
  • Illigeria atra Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[2]
  • Illigeria brasiliensis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863[3]
  • Illigeria minor Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[2]
  • Melanophora americana Macquart, 1844[4]
  • Melanophora appendiculata Macquart, 1855[5]
  • Melanophora atra Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[2]
  • Melanophora distincta Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[2]
  • Melanophora festiva Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[2]
  • Melanophora nigerrima Macquart, 1834[6]
  • Melanophora nitidiventris Curran, 1928[7]
  • Melanophora stygia Harris, 1835[8]
  • Melanophora violacea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[2]
  • Musca atra Devillers, 1789[9]
  • Musca grossificationis Linnaeus, 1758[1]
  • Musca interventum Harris, 1780[10]
  • Musca roralis Linnaeus, 1758[1]
  • Tachina interlapsa Walker, 1853[11]
  • Tachina plumigera Wiedemann, 1830[12]

Melanophora roralis is a species of woodlouse fly in the family Calliphoridae.[13][14]

Description

M. roralis is 3–5.5 millimetres (0.12–0.22 in) long, black in colour with hairy antennae and a shiny thorax.

Distribution

It was introduced to North America from Europe[15] and can be found from Southern Ontario[16] to Chile and Argentina .[17]

Ecology

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]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae... Ed. 10, Vol. 1. Holmiae [= Stockholm]: L. Salvii. pp. 824 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/2/mode/1up. Retrieved 14 November 2022. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Robineau-Desvoidy, J.B. (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires présentés par divers savans à l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques) 2 (2): 1–813. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up. Retrieved 7 January 2022. 
  3. ↑ Robineau-Desvoidy, Jean-Baptiste (1863). Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris.. Tome second. Masson et Fils, Paris.. pp. 1–920. https://archive.org/download/histoirenaturell02robi/histoirenaturell02robi.pdf. Retrieved 15 February 2015. 
  4. ↑ Macquart, P.J.M. (1844). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxième.—3e partie. "1843". Paris: Roret. pp. 304. 
  5. ↑ Macquart, P.J.M. (1855). "Nouvelles observations sur les insectes diptères d'Europe de la tribu des tachinaires (Fin)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 (3): 177–204, 4 pls.. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32541735#page/179/mode/1up. Retrieved 12 July 2023. 
  6. ↑ Macquart, J (1834). "Insectes Diptères du Nord de la France. Tome V. Athericères: Créophiles, Œstrides, Myopaires, Conopsaires, Scénopiniens, Céphalopsides. Daniel L, Lille, 232 pp.". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts, de Lille 1833: 137–368. 
  7. ↑ Curran, C.H. (1928). "Records and descriptions of Diptera, mostly from Jamaica. Pp. 29–45. In: Gowdey, C.C., Catalogus insectorum jamaicensis". Entomological Bulletin 4 (3): 1–45. 
  8. ↑ Harris, T.W. (1835). Insects. Pp. 553-602. In Hitchcock, E., Report on the geology, mineralogy, botany, and zoology of Massachusetts. 2nd Edition. Amherst: J. S. & C. Adams. pp. [4] + 702 pp., 19 pls, 3 maps. 
  9. ↑ Villers, C.J. de (1789). Caroli Linnaei entomologia Vol. 3. Lugduni [=Lyon].: Piestre & Delamolliere. pp. 657 pp., 4 pls. 
  10. ↑ Harris, M. (1780). An exposition of English insects. Decads III, IV. London: Robson Co.. pp. 73–99, 100–138, pls. 21–30, 31–40. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/226006#page/5/mode/1up. Retrieved 16 July 2021. 
  11. ↑ Walker, F. (1853). Insecta Britannica, Diptera. Volume 2. London: Reeve & Benham. pp. vi + 298 pp., pls. 11–20. 
  12. ↑ Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1830). Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten. 2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88495#page/7/mode/1up. Retrieved 21 April 2020. 
  13. ↑ Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Badano, Davide; Gisondi, Silvia; Lo Giudice, Giuseppe; Pape, Thomas (15 Jan 2020). "The world woodlouse flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae)". ZooKeys (903): 1–130. doi:10.3897/zookeys.903.37775. PMID 31997887. PMC 6976704. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/37775/download/pdf/372682. Retrieved 2 December 2023. 
  14. ↑ Yan, Liping; Pape, Thomas; Meusemann, Karen; Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan; Meier, Rudolf; Bayless, Keith M; Zhang, Dong (2021). "Monophyletic blowflies revealed by phylogenomics". BMC Biology 19 (230). https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-021-01156-4. Retrieved 2 December 2023. 
  15. ↑ Jones, F.M. (1948). "Notes on Melanophora roralis". Psyche 55: 31–34. doi:10.1155/1948/74989. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Melanophora roralis". The Insects of Southern Ontario. https://insectsofsouthernontario.ca/melanophora-roralis/. 
  17. ↑ "Long-distance introduction: first New World record of Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) and a key to the genera of New World Rhinophoridae (Diptera)". Zootaxa (Magnolia Press) 2524: 66–68. 2010. ISSN 1175-5326. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02524p068f.pdf. 
  18. ↑ Marshall, Steven A. (2006). Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: with a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America. Firefly Books. pp. 718. ISBN 9781552979006. https://books.google.com/books?id=IqARAQAAMAAJ&q=Melanophora+roralis. 
  19. ↑ J. Van Voorst (1991). The Entomologist. p. 182. https://books.google.com/books?id=FYEeAQAAMAAJ&q=Melanophora+roralis. 
  20. ↑ Warburg, Michael R. (1993). Evolutionary Biology of Land Isopods. Haifa: Springer. pp. 172pp. ISBN 978-3662218914. 

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