Graphomya auriceps Malloch 1934
Creators: name: Patitucci, Luciano Damián
name: Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo
name: Olea, Maria Sofia
name: Mariluis, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Graphomya
Graphomya auriceps

description: Graphomya auriceps Malloch, 1934
(Figs. 8, 64)
Material examined. ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: 1 female, Balcarse, on Eryngium horridum, 09- I-2004, Medan, Devoto, Charmer & Torretta leg. (FAUBA); 1 male, Burzaco, VIII-2001, Mulieri leg. (MACN); 1 male, Burzaco, II-2002, Mulieri leg. (MACN); 1 male, Burzaco, II-2002, Mulieri leg. (MACN); 1 female, Capital Federal, Instituto Malbrán, XII-2002, Mulieri leg. (ANLIS); 1 male, Campana, RNEO, on Sapium haematospermun, 26-XI-2009, Patitucci leg. (MACN); 2 females, Capital Federal, RECS, 24-V-2007, Patitucci leg. (MACN); 1 female, Capital Federal, RECS, 29-VIII-2007, Patitucci leg. (MACN); 1 female, Carlos Casares, Ea. San Claudio, on Eryngium horridum, 12-II-2008, Fernández & Medan leg. (FAUBA); 1 female, Carlos Casares, Ea. San Claudio on Conium maculatum, 18-X-2007, Fernández & Montalto leg. (FAUBA); 1 female, Carlos Casares, Ea. San Claudio on Ammi majus, 09-I-2008, Fernández & Cilla leg. (FAUBA); 1 male, Carlos Casares, Ea. San Claudio on Hirschfeldia incana, 09-I-2008, Fernández & Cilla leg. (FAUBA); 1 female, 3 males, Carlos Casares, Ea. San Claudio on Conium maculatum, XII-2010, Marrero leg. (MACN); 4 female, 2 males, Carlos Casares, Ea. San Claudio on Eryngium che, III-2011, Marrero leg. (MACN); 1 male, Lincoln, Martinez de Hoz on Baccharis pingraea, 15-I-2008, Torretta leg. (FAUBA); 1 male, Lincoln, Martinez de Hoz on Conium maculatum, 15-I-2008, Torretta leg. (FAUBA); 1 male, Ministro Rivadavia, 21-IV-2006, Mulieri leg. (MACN); 2 males, San Antonio de Areco, on Baccharis pingraea, 31-I-2008, Torretta leg. (FAUBA); 1 female, San Isidro, 25- VIII-1926, Shannon & Del Ponte leg. [Det. Shannon as Graphomya maculata] (ANLIS); 1 female, 2 males, Villa Elisa, La Plata, II-1982, Mariluis leg. (MACN). MENDOZA: 1 female, Mendoza Capital, 29-I-2008, Aballay leg. (MACN); 1 female, same data, 23-I-2008, Aballay leg. (MACN); 1 female, same data, 30-III-2008, Aballay leg. (MACN). TUCUMÁN: 1 female, Huálinchay, 1700 mts., III-1979, Mariluis leg. (MACN).
Distribution in Argentina (Fig. 64): Buenos Aires; Mendoza; Tucumán (new record).
References for Argentina. Malloch (1934); Patitucci et al. (2011b).
Remarks. Malloch (1934) described this species with a female collected at the province of Mendoza, Argentina. More recently, Couri & Marques (2009) presented a review of Graphomya from Costa Rica, and described the male of G. auriceps.
Biology. There is little information about this species. Several specimens studied in this work were collected on Ammi majus L., Eryngium horridum Cav. & Dombey, Conium maculatum L., Sapium haematospermun Müll., Hirschfeldia incana L., and Baccharis pingraea DC.
description: Published as part of Patitucci, Luciano Damián, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo, Olea, Maria Sofia & Mariluis, Juan Carlos, 2013, Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Argentina: revision of Buenos Aires province fauna, with a pictorial key to species, pp. 301-347 in Zootaxa 3702 (4) on pages 330-332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3702.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/247761