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Tetanocera dentifer Zuska in Zuska & Berg 1974

  • 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

dentifer Zuska in Zuska & Berg, 1974: 336–338, figs. 10, 16, 22, 32, 33, 44, 52, 55, 62

Holotype. Male (CUIC), Argentina, Santa Cruz, s. of Lago Buenos Aires.

Distribution. Argentina: Chubut Province (Arroyo Verde, Gobernador Costa 26 km S), Santa Cruz Province (S of Lago Buenos Aires, El Chonque, Gobernador Gregores 45 km NW). Chile: Región de Biobío: Biobío Province (no precise locality), Arauco Province (Contulmo); Región de La Araucania: Malleco Province (Marimenuco); Región de Los Ríos (no precise locality); Región de Los Lagos: Llanquihue Province (Maullín); Región de Aysén: General Carrera Province (Balmaceda, Chile Chico); Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena: Última Esperanza Province (Cueva del Milodón, Laguna Amarga, Puerto Natales), Magallanes Province (Punta Arenas).

References. Abercrombie 1970: 137–139 (biology), 241–245 (egg, larvae, puparium); Zuska & Berg 1974: 332 (fig. 10 male postabdomen), 333 (key), 335 (fig. 16 male postabdomen), 338 (fig. 22 male postabdomen), 343 (fig. 32 male terminalia), 345 (fig. 33 male terminalia), 348 (figs. 44, 52 female terminalia), 354 (fig. 55 geographic distribution), 356 (fig. 62 variation in coloration); 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 page 272, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/6048580

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References

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.