Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Argentina: revision of Buenos Aires province fauna, with a pictorial key to species
Author
Patitucci, Luciano Damián
Author
Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo
Author
Olea, Maria Sofia
Author
Mariluis, Juan Carlos
text
Zootaxa
2013
3702
4
301
347
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3702.4.1
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1175-5326
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Ophyra capensis
(Wiedemann, 1818)
(
Figs. 14
,
40
)
Material examined
.
ARGENTINA
: BUENOS
AIRES
:
2 males
, Capital Federal, Cementerio de la Chacarita,
8- VIII-1998
, Oliva leg. (
MACN
);
5 females
,
2 males
Capital Federal,
5-I-2000
, Oliva leg. (
MACN
);
2 females
, Burzaco,
03-X-2009
, Mulieri leg. (
MACN
).
Distribution in
Argentina
(
Fig. 40
): Buenos Aires.
References for
Argentina
.
Patitucci
et al
. (2010a)
.
Remarks
. A redescription with good illustrations of male and female terminalia was given by
Pamplona & Couri (1989)
. The immature stages were studied by
Skidmore (1985)
.
Biology
.
Ophyra capensis
is native to the Old World (
Skidmore 1985
). This species has been bred in human faeces, carcasses of mammals and birds, and was found in human corpses in forensic situations of confinement (
Bourel
et al
. 2004
).