Musca politus, (Say), 1823

Montoya, Augusto L., 2016, FAMILY SYRPHIDAE, Zootaxa 4122 (1), pp. 457-537 : 484

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.39

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5329243

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/587687C9-FF9E-854C-30ED-FEB6FC5A45C2

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Plazi

scientific name

Musca politus
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politus ( Say), 1823 :88 (Scaeva). Type locality: " United States ". HT M (USNM). Distr.: Colombia (Antioquia (Alejandria, La Ceja), Cesar, Cundinamarca (Apulo, Mosquera, La Mesa, Villeta), Magdalena (Santa Marta), Casanare (Paz de Ariporo), Meta (Acacías, Villavicencio), Risaralda (Pereira, Santuario), Tolima (Falán), Valle del Cauca (Buga, Cerrito, Palmira), Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hispaniola, Honduras, Jamaica, Less Antillas, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela. Refs.: Macquart, 1842:97 (132) abdomen); Hull, 1941:29, (abdomen); Thompson et al. 1976:53 (cat.); Thompson, 1981:81, (M genitalia complex, key); Metz & Thompson, 2001:228, 240 (key & redesc.), (abdomen, thorax, wing, larva), Reemer & Rotheray, 2009:939–949 (larval morphology and food preferences); Borges & Couri, 2009:47 (descript, syn.), (F genitalia); Reemer, 2010:193 (desc, syn.), (habitus, F).

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Alejandria, Vereda San José, 6.403715°, -75.064663°, 1445m, 1male, Leg. Entomology Group, Net ( CEUA); La Ceja, Alto la Union, Forest, 6.016132°, -75.370182°, 2500m, 1male, 10.ix.2008, Leg. A.L. Montoya, Net ( CEUA); Cundinamarca: Apulo, 421m, ix.1999, Leg. L. Millán ( UNAB); Mosquera, 4.680641°, -74.216488°, 2550m, 30.ix.2002, Leg. R. Chizaba ( UNAB); La Mesa, 4.629469°, -74.466633°, 1298m, 12.ix.2003, Leg. R. Parra ( UNAB); Villeta, Buenos Aires, Utica, 5.008319°, - 74.473554°, 992m, 29.x.1977, Leg. I. de Arévalo ( ICN); Magdalena: PNN Tayrona Neguanje, 11.276050°, - 74.195519°, 121m, 1.viii.1996, Leg. F. Escobar ( ICN); Casanare: Paz de Ariporo, 670m, 28.iii.2002, Leg.J. Peña & M. Guzmán, Net ( UNAB); Meta: Acacías, 3.987806°, -73.759747°, 502m, 23.v.2002, Leg. J. Cárdenas ( UNAB); Villavicencio, 4.150000°, -73.633333°, 467m, 27.v.2004, Leg.J. Escalante & M. Romero, Manual ( UNAB); Risaralda: Pereira, Ins. Pol. Combia, 2137m, 27.v.1999, Leg. Cely, Forero & Rojas ( UNAB); Santuario, Vereda La Esmeralda, Natural National Park Tatama, 5.105551°, -76.008496°, 2000m, 18-30.x.2013, Leg. C. Bota & C. Flórez, Net ( CEUA); Tolima: Falán, Vereda San Antonio, Finca Villa Liz, 983m 18.viii.2003, Leg. H. Ávila ( UNAB); Valle del Cauca: Buga, Semillas del Valle, 3.900000°, -76.300000°, 969m, 14.x.2003, Leg. E. Ortíz, Net ( UNAB); Cerrito, Semillas del Valle, 987m, 14.x.2003, Leg. P. Rodríguez, Net ( UNAB); Palmira, 3.587073°, - 76.248936°, 1059m, 20.v.2002, Leg. J. Martínez, Manual ( UNAB).

UNAB

Universidad Nacional, Facultad de Agronomia

ICN

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

SuperFamily

Syrphoidea

Family

Muscidae

SubFamily

Syrphinae

Tribe

Toxomerini

Genus

Musca

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