Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2020-06-03
Page range: 381–395
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 4

Review of Euthycerina Malloch (Diptera, Sciomyzidae), with description of a new species from Chile

Jutestraat 30, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Riststraat 2/1, 2300 Turnhout, Belgium.
Diptera Neotropic snail-killing flies Euthycerina key phenology distribution

Abstract

We review and summarize the present knowledge of the Neotropical genus Euthycerina Malloch, 1933. Habitus and male terminalia are described and figured in detail for the first time. Euthycerina uachi sp. nov. is described, based on two males and four females from two locations in the province of Valdivia, Chile. An illustrated key is given for the three described species of Euthycerina, together with maps, phenology plots, and a summary of diagnostic characters that will enable researchers to confidently identify all species of Euthycerina.

 

References

  1. Abercrombie, J. (1970) Natural History of Snail-killing Flies of South America (Diptera: Sciomyzidae: Tetanocerini). Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 344 pp.

    Cumming, J.M. & Wood D.M. (2009) Morphology and terminology. In: Brown, B.V., Borkent, A., Cumming, J.M., Wood, D.M., Woodley, N.E. & Zumbado, M. (Eds.), Manual of Central American Diptera. Vol. 1. NRC Research Press, Ottawa. pp. 9–50.

    Knutson, L.V. & Vala, J.-C. (2011) Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 506 pp.

    Malloch, J.R. (1933) Sciomyzidae. In: Malloch, J.R. (Ed.), Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile, Part VI. Fasc. 4. Acalyptrata. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 296–323.

    Marinoni, L. & Mathis W.N. (2000) A cladistic analysis of Sciomyzidae Fallén (Diptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 113 (1), 162–209.

    Mortelmans, J. (2019) ScioMapper, an online tool for visualising distributions, phenology, bibliography and taxonomy of Snail-Killing Flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). Available from: https://sciomyzidae.shinyapps.io/sciomapper/ (accessed 1 January 2019)