Considered at times as extinct, the European bone-skippers Thyreophora cynophila and Centrophlebomyia furcata (Diptera: Piophilidae) have been recently rediscovered in Spain, coexisting in some areas. Nevertheless, apart from their typical association with big mammal carcasses, little is known about them and the other species of subtribe Thyreophorina. In the present paper, the larval morphology of T. cynophila is described for the first time and compared with that of C. furcata. The morphology of cephalopharyngeal skeleton, the number and arrangement of the spines of ventral creeping welts, and the morphology and presence or absence of tubercles in the two last segments of the body, are the main characters allowing for larval identification of both species. Some preliminary field and laboratory observations on the behaviour and life cycle of the two species are also provided.

Morphology

10.1080/00222933.2013.791938

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Blister Beetle Antennal Twisting Behavior

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Colin Berry Jason M. Meyer Marjorie A. Hoy John B. Heppner William Tinzaara

10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_385

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Bacterial Conjugation

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Colin Berry Jason M. Meyer Marjorie A. Hoy John B. Heppner William Tinzaara

10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_211

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The distribution of adult blow-flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) along an altitudinal gradient in Central Spain

Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S ) (2007)

Arturo Baz Blanca Cifrián Luisa M. Díaz‐Aranda Daniel Martín‐Vega

Abstract The distribution of Calliphoridae along an altitudinal gradient was investigated in Central Spain using carrion-baited traps. Significant differences were found between elevation and mean abundances of almost all species of blow-flies. Several species of flies could be grouped according to their altitudinal preferences so that samples at high elevations are defined by Calliphora vomitoria and Calliphora vicina while samples at low elevations are defined by two thermophilous species: Lucilia sericata and Chrysomya albiceps. The remaining species show preferences for mid-elevations where wooded areas are more characteristic along the altitudinal gradient. Calliphora vomitoria and Chrysomya albiceps are the most abundant species representing the 87.74 % of all captures. Both species are spatially segregated along the altitudinal gradient. The changing patterns of abundance are discussed in relation to differences in climate conditions along the altitudinal gradient concluding that the environmental variables that influence the seasonality of many species also play an important role to explain the spatial distribution.

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Forensic Entomology

10.1080/00379271.2007.10697524

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Back from the dead:Thyreophora cynophila(Panzer, 1798) (Diptera: Piophilidae) ‘globally extinct’ fugitive in Spain

Systematic Entomology (2010)

Daniel Martín‐Vega Arturo Baz Verner Michelsen

We report on a sensational find in central Spain of six specimens of Thyreophora cynophila (Panzer, 1798), a colourful, strange-looking piophilid fly living on carcasses of big mammals in advanced stages of decay. Published data suggest that the species is known exclusively from central western Europe (Germany, Austria and France), and was observed last near Paris, France, in the late 1840s, i.e. more than 160 years ago. Accordingly, T. cynophila was placed in 2007 as the only dipteran on a list of recent European animals considered to be globally extinct. Collection-based data from all 16 known extant specimens found in seven European natural history museums revealed a specimen without date of T. cynophila from Algiers, Algeria. The status of the three thyreophorine piophilids known from Europe is summarized. For the smallest species we reinstate the name Centrophlebomyia anthropophaga (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) with Centrophlebomyia orientalisHendel, 1907 as a subjective junior synonym (syn.n.). We speculate as to why thyreophorines, and T. cynophila in particular, have evaded detection for so long.

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10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00541.x

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Broad-Headed Bugs

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Colin Berry Jason M. Meyer Marjorie A. Hoy John B. Heppner William Tinzaara

10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_10441

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Behavior of Insects: Genetic Analysis by Crossing and Selection

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Colin Berry Jason M. Meyer Marjorie A. Hoy John B. Heppner William Tinzaara

Genetic Analysis

10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_269

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Complementary descriptions of European Psocoptera

Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (2008)

Arturo Baz

The unknown sexes of two European species of Psocoptera were described, viz the female of Asiopsocus meridionalis Lienhard. 1981 and the male of Mesopsocus dubocsqui Badonnel. 1938. A brief description of female of the very rare species Nymphotroctes denisi Badonnel, 1931 is also included.

Psocoptera

10.1002/mmnd.19940410211

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Bates, Henry Walter

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Colin Berry Jason M. Meyer Marjorie A. Hoy John B. Heppner William Tinzaara

BATES

10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_244

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