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Tetanocera patagonicus 1869

  • 1. Research Collaborator, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, 7835 Tufton Street, Fishers, Indiana 46038, USA. murph 3000 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0085 - 6998
  • 2. Instituto de Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile. christian. gonzalez @ umce. cl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2582 - 6071
  • 3. Área de Entomología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile.

Description

patagonicus (Thomson), 1869

Tetanocera patagonicus Thomson, 1869: 571.

Tetanoceroides patagonica (sic); Malloch, 1933: 315.

Holotype. Male (NHRS), Argentina, “Patagonia”.

Distribution. Argentina: Río Negro Province (Road 243 at 2 km N Chubut Province border, San Carlos de Bariloche). Chile: Región de Valparaíso: Valparaíso Province (Casablanca 12 km W), Marga Marga Province (Limache); Región Metropolitana de Santiago: Santiago Province (Santiago), Cordillera Province (Baños Morales); Región de Ñuble: Diguillín Province (Cueva de los Pincheira); Región del Biobío: Biobío Province (Los Ángeles 50 km N, Mulchén, Salto del Laja), Arauco Province (Lago Lanalhue, National Park Nahuelbuta); Región de La Araucanía: Malleco Province (Angol, Marimenuco), Cautín Province (Villarrica); Región de Los Ríos: Valdivia Province (Loncoche 7 km SW, Isla Teja, Valdivia 20 km N), Ranco Province (Cudico); Región de Los Lagos: Llanquihue Province (Lago Llanquihue, Ensenada, Pargua), Chiloé Province (Aucar); Región de Aysén: Aysén Province (Puerto Aysén), Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena: Última Esperanza Province (El Ganso, Puerto Eden), Tierra del Fuego Province (Cameron 35 km SW).

References. Brèthes 1908: 300 (catalog); Malloch 1933: 315 (key, redescription of Thomson´s type); Abercrombie 1970: 146–148 (biology, habitat), 252–253 (larva III, puparium); Zuska & Berg 1974: 332 (fig. 6 male postabdomen), 334 (key), 335 (fig. 17 male postabdomen), 338 (fig. 21 male postabdomen), 339 (fig. 29 male terminalia), 344–347 (redescription, geographic distribution), 345 (fig. 36 male terminalia), 346 (fig. 41 male terminalia), 348 (fig. 45 female terminalia), 355 (fig. 57 body coloration), 356 (fig. 63 variation in coloration), 357 (fig. 56 geographic distribution); Knutson et al. 1976: 12 (catalog); Marinoni 1995: 142 (list); Knutson & Vala 2011: 457 (table 21.1 world checklist).

Notes

Published as part of Murphy, William L., González, Christian R. & Elgueta, Mario, 2022, A catalog of the Sciomyzidae of Chile, with a key to genera (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea), pp. 261-278 in Zootaxa 5099 (2) on pages 273-274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/6048580

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHRS
Family
Sciomyzidae
Genus
Tetanocera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Thomson
Species
patagonicus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Tetanocera patagonicus , 1869 sec. Murphy, González & Elgueta, 2022

References

  • Thomson, C. G. (1869) Diptera. Species nova descripsit. In: Kongliga svenska fregatten Eugenies resa omkring Jorden under befal af C. A. Virgin, aren 1851 - 1853. Vol. 2 (Zoologi) [section] 1, Insekter. P. A. Norstedt & Soner, Stockholm, 617 pp., pl. 9 (pp. 443 - 614).
  • Malloch, J. R. (1933) Acalyptrata. Sciomyzidae. In: Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. Part VI. Fascicle 4. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 296 - 323, pl. VII.
  • Brethes, J. (1908) Catalogo de los Dipteros de las Republicas del Plata. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, Serie III, 9, 277 - 305.
  • Abercrombie, J. (1970) Natural History of Snail-killing Flies of South America (Diptera: Sciomyzidae: Tetanocerini). Ph. D. Thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, x + 344 pp.
  • Zuska, J. & Berg, C. O. (1974) A revision of the South American genus Tetanoceroides (Diptera: Sciomyzidae), with notes on color variations correlated with mean temperature. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 125 (3), 329 - 362. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1973. tb 00546. x
  • Knutson, L., Steyskal, G. C., Zuska, J. & Abercrombie, J. (1976) 64. Family Sciomyzidae. In: Papavero, N. (Ed.), A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, pp. 1 - 24.
  • Marinoni, L. (1995) Analise cladistica de Sciomyzidae Fallen, 1820 (Diptera). Tese Doutor em Ciencias Biologicas, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Ciencias Biologicas (Entomologia), Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, xiii + 143 pp. [https: // acervodigital. ufpr. br / handle / 1884 / 68434]
  • Knutson, L. V. & Vala, J. - C. (2011) Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xix + 506 pp.