Ophyra aenescens Wiedemann 1830
Creators: name: Pérez, Sandra
name: De Carvalho, Claudio J. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Ophyra
Ophyra aenescens

description: aenescens Wiedemann, 1830:435 (Anthomyia). Type locality (restricted): “Neu-Orleans”, USA. LT M (NMW) (des. Pont 1997:88), paralectotype (NMW). Distr.: Mexico, Nicaragua, St. Vincent, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia (Antioquia (Medellín, Gómez Plata, Girardota)), Boyacá (Tunja), (Cundinamarca (La Calera, Facatativa, La Mesa)), Santander (Bucaramanga), Caquetá (Florencia), Córdoba (Monteria), Guajira (Maicao), Magdalena (Santa Marta), Quindío (Armenia), Risaralda (Pereira), Sucre (San Onofre, Isla Tintipan), Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Galápagos Is., Easter Is. Nearctic Region, western Palaearctic Region, eastern Pacific. Refs.: Sabrosky, 1949:427; Hardy, 1981:55; Uribe-M et al., 2010:464 (distr. rec.); Pastrana & Wolff, 2011: 47; Barrios & Wolff, 2011: 166; Salazar et al., 2012:563; Ramírez et al., 2012:31.
Material examined. Antioquia: Medellín, Altos de Medellín, Vereda El Cabuyal, schrubs and pastures, 2 females, 26.x.2004, Grisales, Rivera & A. Uribe Leg., Vsr Fish-Ping (CEUA); Universidad de Antioquia sede Veterinaria, 5°44'48"N, 75°36'34"W, cancha, 1,450m, 1 female, 10.vi.1999, E. Florez & M.A. Botero Leg, Vsr Fish. (CEUA); other specimens with the same label information, except for: 1 female, 23.v.1999, E. Florez & M.A. Botero Leg.; 1 female, 25.v.1999, M.C. Vélez Leg., Vsr-Onion (CEUA); Gómez Plata, Hacienda La Clara, pastures, 1,000m, 1 female, 15.vii.2003, A. Uribe Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Girardota, 11º 16.498N, 74º 05.829W, forest, 1 female, E. Perdomo & C. Valverde Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Boyacá: Tunja, Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnologica, 2,690m, 1 male, 3 females, 6.v.2002, Yusseff & Daza Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Caquetá: Florencia, finca La Magola, Vereda Sebastopol, 305m, 18 males, 30 females, 04.xii.2004, Y. Ramos Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Cundinamarca: La Calera, San José, 4º43'22''N, 73º58'20''W, 1 females, Castro & Molano Leg., Pig-Net (CEUA); Facatativa, 4°50´30´´N, 74°21´7´´W, 1 female, M. Barrios Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); La Mesa, El Espino, 1 female, Entomology Group Leg., carrion (CEUA); Córdoba: Monteria, Unicor, shrubs/side of the road, 12 males, 7 females, 15.xii.2005, Div & Ruiz Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Guajira: Maicao, K13 roat Venezuela, 11´93°N; 27´24W, 20m, 1 female, 16.ix.2007, J. Abdala Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Santander: Bucaramanga, Rionegro, 700m, 6 males, 20 females, 24.vii.2003, A.Vargas Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Magdalena: Santa Marta, finca Kalashe-Kalabia, forest, 11º 16.498N, 74º 05.829W, 143m, 2 females, i–ii.2008, E. Perdomo & C. Valverde Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Quindío: Armenia, Universidad del Quindío, pastures, 1,520m, 4°33´98"N; 75°39´57"W, 9 males, 21 females, 4.iv.2009, M.I. Cruz Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Risaralda: Pereira, finca La Acuarela, Mundo Nuevo, pastures, 1,550m, 24 males, 44 females, 10.x.2006, D. Grisales Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Sucre: San Onofre, Reserva Sanguare, forest, edge, 0m, 2males, 1female, 4–5.ii.2003, Grisales & Duque Leg., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA); Isla Tintipan, Archipielago de San Bernando, manglar, 0m, 1 male, 27.xii.2002, Wolff & Duque Legs., entomological net over a pig carcass (CEUA).
description: Published as part of Pérez, Sandra & De Carvalho, Claudio J. B., 2016, FAMILY MUSCIDAE, pp. 814-853 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 825, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.70, http://zenodo.org/record/256480