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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Sciomyzidae |
| Subfamily: | Sciomyzinae |
| Tribe: | Tetanocerini |
| Genus: | Dictya |
| Species: | D. umbrarum |
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| Dictya umbrarum | |
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Dictya umbrarum is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic and Nearctic.[2][3] Long. : 4-5 mm. Intensely spotted wings. The interocular space with a black mark at the anterior orbital. The face is white with a black or brown central point. The antennae are reddish, the arista yellow at the base. The body is black (au fond) covered in a grey yellow pruinosity with shifting (changeant) brown spots on the abdomen. The femora are grey with a brown apical band. The tibia are yellow with a brown apical ring (anneau).[4] For terms see Morphology of Diptera. Dictya montana is a predator of aquatic pulmonate snails with no apparent parasitoid tendency. [5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I. II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6 ISBN 81-205-0081-4
- ↑ Séguy, E. (1934) Diptères: Brachycères. II. Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 28 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf
- ↑ R. J. McDonnell,T.D. Paine, R. E. Orth and M. J. Gormally,2007 Life history and biocontrol potential of Dictya montana Steyskal, 1954 (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) a, snail-killing fly The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 83(2):101-109(2007)
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