Species Megaselia curtineura (Brues, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aphiochaeta curtineura Brues, C.T. 1909. Some new Phoridae from the Philippines. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 17: 5-6 [6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂♀ series, Dr. C.S. Banks, Philippines, Manila.
• Aphiochaeta insulana Brues, C.T. 1911. The Phoridae of Formosa collected by Mr. H. Sauter. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 9: 530-559 [Date published 20 December] [542-543].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) HNHM 3♀, April, May & Nov 1907, H.Sauter, Taiwan, T'ai-nan, Takao.
• Aphiochaeta variata Malloch, J.R. 1912. The insects of the dipterous family Phoridae in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43[= No. 1938]: 411-529 [Date published 14 December] [515-516].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂, no date, W.A. Stanton, Philippine Islands, Manila.
• Megaselia biformis Brues, C.T. 1942. A species of Phoridae bred in Hawaii from the immigrant African land snail (Achatina fulica). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 11: 154-156 [Date published 6 October] [155-156].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (Feb. 1941, Y. Kondo, bred from dead specimen of African land snail Achatina fulica), Hawaii, Honolulu.

Generic Combinations

• Megaselia curtineura (Brues, 1909).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Megaselia koffleri [authors, not Schmitz, 1935, misidentification].
• Megaselia varieta [misspelling for variata].

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Extra Distribution Information

Extra-limital distribution: Philippines; Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand (Campbell Is.); India; Israel; Taiwan

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