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Minettia Maculithorax
''Minettia maculithorax'' is a species of fly in the family Lauxaniidae, occurring in eastern Australia. Description Both males and females of this species are 4-4.5 mm in body length. There is a dull clay-yellow head with grey pruinescence on the orbits and ocellar triangle, and a face that is dark in the centre. The antennae are yellowish and the 3rd segment of each is dark at the apex. The palps are dark. The thorax is clay-coloured with grey pruinescence. On the top of the thorax are two brown submedian stripes which don't reach the anterior margin and which terminate in two blackish spots on the posterior margin. On either side of these stripes is a brown spot in front of the suture and a large brown mark behind the suture. The pleura have brown marks below the humeri as well as other brown patches. The abdomen is dark at the bases of each of its tergites. The legs are yellowish with dark femurs. The halteres ''Halteres'' (; singular ''halter'' or ''haltere'') ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Russell Malloch
John Russell Malloch (16 November 1875 – 1963) was a Scotland, Scottish Entomology, entomologist who specialised in Fly, Diptera and Hymenoptera. Malloch was born at Milton of Campsie in Stirlingshire, Scotland. His widowed father had one son, James Malloch (born 1873) when he married John Russell's mother, Margaret Stirling, on 30 August 1875. He and several others of his family worked at a textile factory in the area, but he spent his spare time collecting insects in the fields. His first published paper (1897) describes a type of migrating butterfly. In 1903 Malloch sold his extensive collection to the Glasgow Museum. He continued to collect, but began to concentrate on Diptera from that time forward. Before emigrating in 1910, he donated the remainder of his collection (13,000 flies) to the Royal Scottish Museum. Little is known about Malloch's education. He listed a university degree from Glasgow on his job applications in the USA, but this has not been verified by univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minettia Maculithorax Side
''Minettia'' is a genus of small flies of the family Lauxaniidae. They have almost worldwide distribution, is one of the most species rich genera of the family with more than 120 described species. The Palaearctic is the most diverse with some 56 described species. The genus is divided into 3 subgenera.Séguy, E. (1934) ''Diptères: Brachycères''. II. ''Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae''. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 2 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf/ref> Species *Subgenus '' Plesioninettia'' Shatalkin, 2000 :*'' M. crassulata'' Shatalkin, 1998 :*'' M. divaricata'' Sasakawa, 1985 :*'' M. filia'' (Becker, 1895) :*'' M. fuscescens'' Shatalkin, 1998 :*'' M. gemina'' Shatalkin, 1992 :*'' M. gemmata'' Shatalkin, 1992 :*'' M. helva'' Czerny, 1932 :*'' M. helvola'' (Becker, 1895) :*'' M. ishidai'' (Sasakawa, 1985) :*'' M. loewi'' ( Schiner, 1864) :*'' M. omei'' Shatalkin, 1998 :*'' M. punctata'' Sasakawa, 1985 :*'' M. styriaca'' (Strobl, 1892) :*'' M. tenebrica'' Shatalki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
