Megaselia scalaris (Loew, 1866)

Mostovski, Mike B., 2016, A review of scuttle fly genera of Israel (Diptera: Phoridae), with new records and an identification key, Zootaxa 4137 (1), pp. 61-72 : 66

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.1.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:722D15D8-4320-4034-A587-034A589DAA8F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6077052

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA878B-FFD7-D110-FF6F-F9EAFB2A0171

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Plazi

scientific name

Megaselia scalaris (Loew, 1866)
status

 

Megaselia scalaris (Loew, 1866) View in CoL

Material. Israel: 2♀ Havat Matityahu [nr Bar'am, 33°03'52"N 35°27'13"E], 10.ii.2016, on Tuber aestivum .

Remarks. This is a truly cosmopolitan species, which was introduced even to the Antarctica ( Nickolls & Disney 2001), and finding it in Israel is neither surprising nor unexpected. However, it is formally a new record for the country and a new record of phorids found in association with the summer truffle Tuber aestivum . Scuttle flies of this species are most commonly associated with decaying organic matter (Disney, 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Megaselia

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