Taxonavigation

Sciadocera rufomaculata (male, wing length about 4.7 mm)

Familia: Phoridae
Subfamilia: Sciadocerinae
Genus: Sciadocera
Species: Sciadocera rufomaculata

Name

• Sciadocera rufomaculata White, 1916
  • Authority for placement: original
  • Current status: valid species
  • Gender: changeable (-us, -um, -a)
  • Original genus: Sciadocera White, 1916
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: unique ('Only one specimen is known, ...')
    • Description: [adult] female
    • Repository: [BMNH]
  • Type locality: 'Mangalore'
  • ZooBank

Primary references

• White, A. 1916. The Diptera-Brachycera of Tasmania. Part III. Families Asilidae, Bombylidae, Empidae, Dolichopodidae, & Phoridae. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1916: 148–266. BHL Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 219, and fig. 40]

References

• Fuller, M.E. 1934: The early stages of Sciadocera rufomaculata White (Dipt. Phoridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 59(251-252): 9–15. BHL Reference page. 

• Harrison, R.A. 1952: A rare New Zealand species of Diptera. New Zealand entomologist 1(2): 3–3. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1952.9722693 Reference page. 

• Tonnoir, A.L. 1926: A new and primitive sub-family of the Phoridae (Dipt.) Records of the Canterbury Museum, 3(1): 31-38, plate IV. BUGZ

Selected links

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