New Species of Scuttle Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) Associated with a Ponerine Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Brazil

Authors

  • R. Henry L. Disney University of Cambridge
  • Marcos A. L. Bragança Universidade Federal do Tocantins
  • Marcos C. Teixeira Univ. Federal do Espírito Santo, CEUNES

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v62i1.124-127

Keywords:

scuttle flies, Phoridae, Apocephalus, Megaselia, Dinoponera

Abstract

Among scuttle flies caught at colonies of the ant Dinoponera lucida Emery (Ponerinae) were Apocephalus exlucida Disney new species and females of two species of Megaselia Rondani that, which in our present state of knowledge, cannot be named until associated with their males.

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Author Biographies

Marcos A. L. Bragança, Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Curso de Ciêncas Biológicas

77500-000 Porto Nacional – TO Brazil

Marcos C. Teixeira, Univ. Federal do Espírito Santo, CEUNES

BR 101, Km 63, Bairro Litorâneo, São Mateus, ES, Brazil

References

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Borgmeier, T. 1971. Further studies on Phorid flies, mainly of the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Phoridae). Studia Entomologica, Petropolis14: 1-172.

Brown, B. V. 2000. Revision of the “Apocephalus miricauda-group” of ant-parasitizing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 482: 1-62.

Brown, B.V., Disney, R. H. L., L. Elizalde, L. & Folgarait, P. J., 2010. New species and new records of Apocephalus Coquillett (Diptera: Phoridae) that parasitize ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in America. Sociobiology 55: 165-190.

Campiolo, S., Delabie, J. H. C. 2008. Dinoponera lucida Emery. In: Machado, A. B. M., Drummond, G. M. & Paglia, A. P. (Eds.) Livro vermelho da fauna brasileira ameaçada de extinção. 1st Ed., Brasília, DF: Ministério do Meio Ambiente; Belo Horizonte, MG: Fundação Biodiversitas. p. 388-389.

Peixoto, A. V., Campiolo, S., Lemes T. N., Delabie, J. H. C. & Hora, R. R. 2008. Comportamento e estrutura reprodutiva da formiga Dinoponera lucida Emery (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 52: 88-94.

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Published

2015-04-07

How to Cite

Disney, R. H. L., Bragança, M. A. L., & Teixeira, M. C. (2015). New Species of Scuttle Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) Associated with a Ponerine Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Brazil. Sociobiology, 62(1), 124–127. https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v62i1.124-127

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Vol. 62 No. 1 (2015)

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Short Note

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