Elgiva solicita is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic[2]

Elgiva solicita
Elgiva solicita Netherlands
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Genus: Elgiva
Species:
E. solicita
Binomial name
Elgiva solicita
(Harris, 1780)[1]
Synonyms
  • Elgiva sundewalli Kloet & Hincks, 1945
  • Tetanocera lineata Day, 1881
  • Musca rufa Panzer, 1798

The head is reddish; the frontal median band with two small brown spots at the insertion of the orbital bristles and a larger spot on the genes near the antenna base. The face is yellowish-white. The antennae are rufous, burnished or blackened at the apex; third article a little longer than the second.The arista is whitish at the apex.The proboscis is brown the palps yellow. The mesonotum is rufous with two grey longitudinal bands, pleurae with pale pruinosity, mesopleura ciliated or not and without an erect macrochaete.The legs are yellow: tarsi darker. The lower surfaces of the front femora are equipped with strong anteroventral and posteroventral apical setae.Wings are vitreous or somewhat yellowish. Yellow halteres. The abdomen is rufous, with a dorsal median brown line more or less enlarged.For terms see Morphology of Diptera. Long. ; 6.5-8 mm.[3][4] [5]

Elgiva solicita is known from Spain, Ireland, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, North Africa and the Eastern Palearctic.

Content in this edit is translated from the existing Polish Wikipedia article at pl:Elgiva solicita; see its history for attribution

References

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  1. ^ Harris, M. (1780). An exposition of English insects. Vol. Decads III, IV. London: Robson Co. pp. 73–99, 100–138, pls. 21-30, 31–40. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. ^ Fauna Europaea
  3. ^ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I, II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6 ISBN 81-205-0081-4
  4. ^ Séguy, E. (1934) Diptères: Brachycères. II. Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 28 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf
  5. ^ Rudolf Rozkošný: The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark . Leiden, Copenhagen: EJ Brill/Scandinavian Science Press, 1984, series: Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica.
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