Discomyza similis Lamb, 1912

A tiny blackish-greyish fly with shiny thorax and dark small antennae, wings partially infuscated, halters dark with white knob, legs mostly black, tarsi of mid- and hindlegs yellowish.

Discomyza larvae develop in a variety of terrestrial or maritime snails.

Key to genus and photos in:
Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz & Cielniak, Magdalena, 2015, A review of the genus Discomyza (Diptera: Ephydridae) from Afrotropical, Australasian / Oceanian and Oriental Regions, Zootaxa 3963 (1), pp. 1-26
https://sci-hub.ee/10.11646/zootaxa.3963.1.1
https://treatment.plazi.org/GgServer/html/DF728797926DFFDDFF5A631CFC40B546

Original description in:
Lamb, C. G. (1912) The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. Vol. 4, No. XIX. - Diptera: Loncheidae, Sapromyzidae, Ephydridae, Chloropidae, Agromyzidae. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, 15
https://sci-hub.ee/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1912.tb00104.x

Distribution afrotropical: Cameroon, D. R. Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, R. South Africa, Seychelles, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197063778

Publicado el 20 de enero de 2024 por traianbertau