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    Melanophora roralis

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Species of fly

    Melanophora roralis
    Melanophora roralis female. A woodlouse parasite, found in a basement apartment. Mt. Pleasant, Washington, DC, USA.jpg
    female
    Scientific classification edit
    Domain: Eukaryota
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Insecta
    Order: Diptera
    Family: Rhinophoridae
    Genus: Melanophora
    Species:
    M. roralis
    Binomial name
    Melanophora roralis
    Synonyms

    Melanophora roralis is a species of woodlouse fly in the family Rhinophoridae.

    Description

    M. roralis is 3–5.5 millimetres (0.12–0.22 in) long, black in colour with hairy antennae and a shiny thorax.[2]

    Distribution

    It was introduced to North America from Europe[3] and can be found from Southern Ontario[1] to Chile and Argentina .[4]

    Ecology

    Species fly from mid-May to October and inhabit old forests and damp areas near the shore.[1] The females of this species have a distinctive white spots at the tips of their wings[5] and lay from 189 to 238 eggs in 6.5 to 7.5 hours.[6] It takes up to 21 days for the species' to pupate.[7] It is a parasite of Porcellio scaber.[8]

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Melanophora roralis". The Insects of Southern Ontario. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20180701194217/https://insectsofsouthernontario.ca/melanophora-roralis/. Retrieved May 12, 2018. 
    2. ↑ BugGuide photos
    3. ↑ Jones, F.M. (1948). "Notes on Melanophora roralis". Psyche 55: 31–34. doi:10.1155/1948/74989. 
    4. ↑ "Long-distance introduction: first New World record of Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) and a key to the genera of New World Rhinophoridae (Diptera)". Zootaxa (Magnolia Press) 2524: 66–68. 2010. ISSN 1175-5326. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02524p068f.pdf. 
    5. ↑ Marshall, Steven A. (2006). Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: with a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America. Firefly Books. pp. 718. ISBN 9781552979006. https://books.google.com/books?id=IqARAQAAMAAJ&q=Melanophora+roralis. 
    6. ↑ J. Van Voorst (1991). The Entomologist. p. 182. https://books.google.com/books?id=FYEeAQAAMAAJ&q=Melanophora+roralis. 
    7. ↑ Journal of the Society for British Entomology. 1. 1934. https://books.google.com/books?id=5b5GAQAAIAAJ&q=Melanophora+roralis. 
    8. ↑ Warburg, Michael R. (2013). Evolutionary Biology of Land Isopods. Haifa, Israel. p. 142. ISBN 978-3-662-21891-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=hQZJCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA142. 

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