Ophyra capensis (Wiedemann, 1818)

Patitucci, Luciano Damián, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo, Olea, Maria Sofia & Mariluis, Juan Carlos, 2013, Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Argentina: revision of Buenos Aires province fauna, with a pictorial key to species, Zootaxa 3702 (4), pp. 301-347 : 318

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3702.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6164742

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scientific name

Ophyra capensis (Wiedemann, 1818)
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Ophyra capensis (Wiedemann, 1818) View in CoL

( Figs. 14 View FIGURES 13 – 14. 13 , 40 View FIGURES 38 – 41 )

Material examined. ARGENTINA : BUENOS AIRES: 2 males, Capital Federal, Cementerio de la Chacarita, 8- VIII-1998, Oliva leg. ( MACN); 5 females, 2 males Capital Federal, 5-I-2000, Oliva leg. ( MACN); 2 females, Burzaco, 03-X-2009, Mulieri leg. ( MACN).

Distribution in Argentina ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 38 – 41 ): Buenos Aires.

References for Argentina View in CoL . Patitucci et al. (2010a).

Remarks. A redescription with good illustrations of male and female terminalia was given by Pamplona & Couri (1989). The immature stages were studied by Skidmore (1985).

Biology. Ophyra capensis is native to the Old World ( Skidmore 1985). This species has been bred in human faeces, carcasses of mammals and birds, and was found in human corpses in forensic situations of confinement ( Bourel et al. 2004).

MACN

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Ophyra

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