Fannia canicularis (Linnaeus)

Grisales, Diana, Wolff, Marta & De, Claudio J. B., 2012, Neotropical Fanniidae (Insecta, Diptera): new species of Fannia from Colombia, Zootaxa 3591, pp. 1-46 : 6-7

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Fannia canicularis (Linnaeus) View in CoL

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Fannia canicularis Linnaeus, 1761: 454 (Musca) View in CoL . New name for lateralis Linnaeus, 1758. Lectotype male of Musca laterali s (des. Pont, 1981: 170) in the Linnean Society, London (LSUK). Type-locality: “Europe.

Diagnosis. These characters apply only to the male sex. General coloration yellowish; eye bare; frontal vitta greyish and narrow; 8 fr; upper orb present ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 12 ); fronto-orbital plate and parafacialia greyish pollinose and without short setae; scape and pedicel black; scape with 1 seta reaching the pedicel; arista dark brown with base black; palpus black and filiform; scutum brown with 3 brown vittae along acr and dc, not reaching base of scutellum; 2 pra, short and near the spal; wing and calypters yellowish; haltere yellowish with base brown; legs dark brown with yellow joints; mid tibia constricted on ventral surface of basal half; hind coxa setulose on posterior margin; hind femur without pre-apical protuberance on ventral surface, 1 developed av on apical half, 1 row of ad ending in 5 developed d ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 20 – 37 ); hind tibia with 1 row of short ad on basal half, ending in 1 short median seta, 2 median av ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 20 – 37 ); abdomen elongate, brown-greyish with syntergite 1+2, tergites 2–3 translucentyellow with median vitta brown; sternite 1 setulose; sternite 5 as in Fig. 56 View FIGURES 56 – 73 ; terminalia ( Figs. 74 View FIGURES 74 – 82 , 92 View FIGURES 92 – 100 ): epandrium slightly wider than long, with setae predominantly on basal half, 2 setae developed basally; surstylus widened basally with a set of setae on the outer edges, apex slender with short setae; bacilliform process absent; hypandrium and associated structures as in Fig. 110 View FIGURES 110 – 118 .

Biology. Fannia canicularis is a cosmopolitan and synanthropic species that has been widely studied ( Chillcott 1961; Almeida et al. 1985; Queiroz & de Carvalho 1987; Meyer & Mullens 1988; de Carvalho et al. 2003). It is capable of transporting bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus , protozoans and nematodes ( Rozkošný al. 1997). Recently the role of F. canicularis in vectoring Newcastle disease has been demonstrated. The virus, which lives in the median and distal portions of the intestine of F. canicularis , is transmitted to poultry and other birds, affecting their nervous, respiratory and digestive systems ( Chakrabarti et al. 2008).

Comments. F. canicularis belongs to the sub-group canicularis of the canicularis group ( Chillcott 1961). The monophyly of the group, however, has not been corroborated ( Domínguez & Roig-Juñent 2008).

Type material. Not examined.

Material examined. COLOMBIA. Boyacá: 1 male Pauna, Manote bajo, La Rochela, Alt. 1.280 mts., 28–IV–79, Col. I. de Arévalo ( MEFLG); Magdalena : 1 male Santa Marta 1–3–73, Silvio Zuluaga ( MEFLG).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan (de Carvalho et al. 2003). Colombia: departments of Magdalena (Caribbean region) and Boyacá (Andean region, Eastern Cordillera).