Sciadocera rufomaculata

Taxonavigation

Sciadocera rufomaculata (male, wing length about 4.7 mm)

Taxonavigation: Phoroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Muscomorpha Sectio: Aschiza Superfamilia: Phoroidea

Familia: Phoridae
Subfamilia: Sciadocerinae
Genus: Sciadocera
Species: Sciadocera rufomaculata

Name

• Sciadocera rufomaculata White, 1916
  • Authority for placement: original
  • Current status: valid species
  • Gender: changeable (-us, -um, -a)
  • Original genus: Sciadocera White, 1916
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: unique ('Only one specimen is known, ...')
    • Description: [adult] female
    • Repository: [BMNH]
  • Type locality: 'Mangalore'
  • ZooBank

Incorrect spellings

• Sciadocera maculata
• Siadocera maculata

Primary references

• White, A. 1916. The Diptera-Brachycera of Tasmania. Part III. Families Asilidae, Bombylidae, Empidae, Dolichopodidae, & Phoridae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1916: 148–266. BHL Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 219, and fig. 40]

References

• Fuller, M.E. 1934: The early stages of Sciadocera rufomaculata White (Dipt. Phoridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 59(251-252): 9–15. BHL Reference page. 
• Tonnoir, A.L. 1926. A new and primitive sub-family of the Phoridae (Dipt.) Records of the Canterbury Museum 3(1): 31–38, plate IV. BUGZ Reference page. 

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