Species Ornithophila metallica (Schiner, 1862)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ornithomyia metallica Schiner, I.R. 1862. In: Fauna Austriaca. Die Fliegen (Diptera). Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet von J. Rudolf Schiner. Mit der Charakteristik sämmtlicher europäischer Gattungen, der Beschreibung aller in Deutschland vorkommenden Arten und dem Verzeichnisse der beschriebenen europäischen Arten. Wien [= Vienna] : Gerold Theile II xxxii + 658 pp. [646].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Austria.
• Ornithomyia andajensis Rondani, C. 1878. Muscaria exotica Musei Civici januensis. Fragmentum IV. Hippoboscita exotica non vel minus cognita. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 12: 150-169 [Date published 30 March] [155].
• Olfersia noumeana Bigot, J.M.F. 1885. Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 27e partie. XXXV. Famille des Anomalocerati (mihi) (Coriacae, Pupipara, Nycteribidae. Auctor). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 6 5: 225-246 [Date published 28 December] [240].
• Ornithomyia aenescens Bigot, J.M.F. 1885. Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 27e partie. XXXV. Famille des Anomalocerati (mihi) (Coriacae, Pupipara, Nycteribidae. Auctor). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 6 5: 225-246 [Date published 28 December] [244].

 

Generic Combinations

• Ornitheza metallica (Schiner, 1862). —
  Maa, T.C. 1962. Notes on the Hippoboscidae (Diptera), 1. Pacific Insects 4: 583-614 [Date published 10 October] [593] (changed combination; cited as (Schiner) 1864)
• Ornithophila metallica (Schiner, 1862). —
  Maa, T.C. 1963. Genera and species of Hippoboscidae (Diptera): types, synonymy, habitats and natural groupings. Pacific Insects Monographs 6: 1-186 [Date published 15 December] [92] (new combination)

 

Introduction

Polyxenous; recorded from at least 50 host bird genera.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Extra-limital distribution: Austria; American Samoa; Fiji; Indonesia; New Caledonia; Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu; Western Samoa; widespread through Old World

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: ectoparasitic.

 

General References

Maa, T.C. 1962. Notes on the Hippoboscidae (Diptera), 1. Pacific Insects 4: 583-614 [Date published 10 October] [593]

Maa, T.C. 1963. Genera and species of Hippoboscidae (Diptera): types, synonymy, habitats and natural groupings. Pacific Insects Monographs 6: 1-186 [Date published 15 December] [92-93]

Maa, T.C. 1969. Studies in Hippoboscidae (Diptera). Part 2. Revision of Icosta (= Lynchia auctt.) with erection of a related genus Phthona (Diptera: Hippoboscidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 20: 25-203 [Date published 20 February] [244]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
19-Dec-2011		18-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)