Biology:Gymnosoma rotundatum

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Short description: Species of fly

Gymnosoma rotundatum
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Gymnosoma rotundatum
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Phasiinae
Tribe: Gymnosomatini
Genus: Gymnosoma
Species:
G. rotundatum
Binomial name
Gymnosoma rotundatum
Synonyms
  • Gymnosoma cerinum (Harris, 1776)[2]
  • Musca cerina Harris, 1776[2]
  • Musca rotundata Linnaeus, 1758[1]
  • Gymnosoma kuramanum Matsumura, 1916[3]

Gymnosoma rotundatum is a parasitoid fly found in Europe and Asia.[4][5][6]

Description

Gymnosoma rotundatum, sometimes referred to as a ladybird fly, is a small 5-6mm long fly. It has a dark thorax, golden in males, and a globular orange abdomen decorated with dark rounded markings along the midline.[4] The base of the wings are yellow-brown.[7]

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Behaviour

The larvae grow as parasites of shield bugs in the Pentatomidae family. In Britain, the species is often recorded in warm dry sites, where it visits a range of open shallow flowers.[8]

Distribution

British Isles, Belarus , Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland , Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine , Denmark , Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain , Turkey, Austria, Belgium, France , Germany , Netherlands, Switzerland , Japan , South Korea , Iran, Russia , Transcaucasia, China , Japan , Taiwan.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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 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. 
  3. Matsumura, Shonen (1916). Thousand insects of Japan. Additamenta Vol. 2 (Diptera). Tokyo: Keisei-sha. pp. 185–474 + [4], pls. 16–25. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Smith, M (2022). "The genome sequence of Gymnosoma rotundatum (Linnaeus, 1758), a parasitoid ladybird fly.". Wellcome Open Research 7: 104. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17782.1. PMID 35419492. 
  5. Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8. 
  6. O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World". http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf. 
  7. "Ladybird Flies - Gymnosoma rotundatum - UK Safari". https://www.uksafari.com/ladybird_fly.htm. 
  8. Jang, Sin Ae; Park, Chung Gyoo (2010-03-01). "Gymnosoma rotundatum (Diptera: Tachinidae) attracted to the aggregation pheromone of Plautia stali (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)" (in en). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 13 (1): 73–75. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2009.11.004. ISSN 1226-8615. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S122686150900106X. 

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