Megaselia rufipes (Meigen)
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903371813 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D24787B6-FF8E-FF84-FE56-FA0AFDAC51E8 |
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Felipe |
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Megaselia rufipes (Meigen) |
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Megaselia rufipes (Meigen) View in CoL
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Trineura rufipes Meigen, 1804 .
Trineura annulata Meigen, 1804 .
Phora pallipes Latreille, 1809 .
Phora heracleellae Bouché, 1834 .
Phora sphigicides Bouché, 1834 .
Phora semiflava Hartig, 1837 .
Phora coleoptorum Brischke, 1868 .
Lioyella juanfernandezica Enderlein, 1938 .
This Holarctic species has been carried around the world by man as far as Tasmania and New Zealand ( Disney 2003d) and the remote islands of the South Atlantic ( Jones et al. 2003; Hänel and Disney 2006). The males are distinctive but the females are easily confused with several other species. Of those recorded from the North Atlantic
Islands, unmounted females are easily confused with those of M. leptofemur and M. marina (see Disney and Ashmole 2007).
Previous records
La Palma, Tenerife.
New record
Seven females, Tenerife, Tejina (Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias), reared from a culture of the beetle Cosmopolites sordidus (Curculionidae) , 23 February 2005 (A. Padilla, CUMZ – 10-147).
Natural history
The larvae feed on a broad spectrum of decaying organic materials that includes rotting plants, dung, decaying fungi, dead invertebrates and vertebrate carrion, including human corpses. They occasionally exploit human foods, such as cheese and rice-based pre-cooked meals. Adults visit a variety of flowers and fungus spores have been found in the crops of females.
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