Psilopa thora Dahl, 1973

Castro, Catarina Prado E, Santos, Vasco & Ameixa, Olga M. C. C., 2022, Shore fly communities from Ria de Aveiro, with new records for Portugal (Diptera: Ephydridae), Fragmenta entomologica 54 (1), pp. 95-100 : 97

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.13133/2284-4880/715

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8172990

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8535E960-6C6E-FFE3-FCAD-E2E8AA80F88E

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Felipe

scientific name

Psilopa thora Dahl, 1973
status

 

Psilopa thora Dahl, 1973 View in CoL

Specimens examined: 07.IX.2020, 5 ♂. Foz do Rio Novo, Salinas (40°40’35.0”N 8°40’20.0”W), and Reboxo (40°39’42.9”N 8°41’39.9”W) on saltmarsh area, on Spartina maritima , Halimione portulacoides , Juncus maritimus .

Comments: Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Canary Islands, Greece ( Zatwarnicki 2018). Larvae of the genera Psilopa are known to mine leaves of saltmarsh plants ( Foote 1995). First record for the Iberian Peninsula.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

Genus

Psilopa

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