A review of scuttle fly genera of Israel (Diptera: Phoridae), with new records and an identification key
Author
Mostovski, Mike B.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4137
1
61
72
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4137.1.4
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1175-5326
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Puliciphora rufipes
Silva Figueroa, 1916
Material.
Israel
:
1♂
Almagor [
32°55'N
35°36'E
],
7–30.iv.2011
, W. Kuslitzky, Malaise trap.
Remarks.
This presumably Neotropical species (Disney, 1988) also occurs in
South Africa
(Disney, 1988;
Mostovski, 2004
),
Zimbabwe
(Disney pers. comm. teste
Carles-Tolrá, 2002
), south-western
France
(
Disney, 1993
),
Andorra
(
Carles-Tolrá, 2007
), north-eastern and southern
Spain
(
Carles-Tolrá, 2002
;
Vela
et al.
, 2011
), Madeira (
Disney & Franquinho Aguiar, 2008
) and the Canary Islands (Disney
et al.
, 2010). With its
Israeli
record, the distribution of
P. rufipes
becomes somewhat puzzling and prompts further investigation, which, however, falls beyond the scope of the present paper.
The species is often found in association with dead animal matter (l.c. and references therein).