Fannia pusio Wiedemann
Creators: name: Grisales, Diana
name: Wolff, Marta
name: De, Claudio J. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Fanniidae
Fannia
Fannia pusio

description: Fannia pusio (Wiedemann)
(Figs. 33, 51, 69, 87, 105, 123)
Fannia pusio Wiedemann, 1830: 437 (Anthomyia). Lectotype male deposited in University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum (ZMUC) (des. Pont 1977:54); paralectotype deposited in the University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum (ZMUC). Type-locality: "South America ".
Diagnosis. these characters apply only to the male sex. Species with general coloration black-greyish; eye bare; 9–13 fr; fronto-orbital plate greyish pollinose and upper margin black; parafacial with very short setae on basal third; parafacial and gena greyish pollinose; scape and pedicel dark brown, golden-silver pollinose; scape with short reclinate seta; arista dark brown; palpus dark brown and filiform; scutum dark brown and posterior area dark grey; acr 3:3, not arranged in rows; 2 pra, seta near supra-alar seta less developed; wing and haltere yellowish; calypters whitish; legs dark brown; hind coxa on posterior margin with 2 setulae; hind femur on ventral surface with pre-apical protuberance, anteroventral and posteroventral surfaces with long and curved setae on protuberance (Figs. 33, 51); hind tibia with 1–2 rows of long v (Fig. 33), 1 row of short a; abdomen trimaculate; sternite 1 bare; sternite 5 as in Fig. 69; terminalia as in the sub-group pusio (Chillcott 1961) (Figs. 87, 105): epandrium slightly wider than long; surstylus without lateral-ventral projection; bacilliform process absent; hypandrium and associated structures as in Fig. 123.
Biology. F. pusio is a well studied species (see de Carvalho et al. 2003) due to its economic importance and synanthropic and hemi- synanthropic habits (Gregor 1975; Linhares 1981; de Carvalho et al. 2002; Leandro & D’Almeida 2005). It is associated with carrion (Moura et al. 2005; Barbosa et al. 2009) and is a mechanical vector of eggs of Dermatobia hominis (Gomes et al. 2002). Parasitoids and mating pheromones were tested on F. p u s i o to control it in poultry farms (Uebel et al. 1978 a, b; Marchiori et al. 2000, 2002, 2005; Marchiori & Silva 2001; Monteiro & Prado 2006; Marchiori 2007). Fannia pusio is known as an occasional pollinator of Sterculia chicha (Sterculioideae, Malvaceae) (Taroda & Gibbs 1982).
Comments. F. pusio is a new record for Colombia. According to Chillcott (1961) it belongs to the sub-group pusio of the canicularis group. The monophyly of this sub-group was corroborated, but it includes F. perpulchra, an African species never previously classified in this group. The presence of an epiphallus and parafacial setae are characters supporting the clade [F. perpulchra [F. trimaculata [F. pusio, F. femoralis ]]] (Dominguez & Roig-Juñent 2008).
Type material. Not examined.
Material examined. COLOMBIA. Magdalena: 1 male Santa Marta, Finca Kalashe–Kalabia, 143 m, 11˚16’498”N, 74˚05’829”W, Cerdo sombra, Enero 26 /2008, J2, E. Perdomo and C. Valverde (CEUA); Sucre: 1 male Monteria Unicor. 12 msnm, Rastrojo orilla de camino, Jama en cerdo, Dic. 16/2005, Dix and Ruiz, UC F–84 (CEUA); Santander: 1 male Bucaramanga, Mpio. Rionegro, 700 msnm, Cerdo 1, captura jama, 24 Jul – 0 3, H: 8:00, CEUA F 13993, A. Vargas (CEUA); Antioquia: 1 male Medellín, UdeA, Cerdo 3, captura jama, 13 de Nov–02, H:4, CEUA –F 8026, S. Pérez, 1 male 14 de Nov–2002, H:10, CEUA –F 8014, 1 male 13 de Nov–2002 H:4, CEUA –F 8027, 1 male 15 de Nov–2002, H:10, CEUA –F 8079, 1 male cerdo 1, 2 de Nov–2002 H:10, CEUA –F 8279, 1 male cerdo 2, 6 de Nov–2002, H:10, CEUA –F 8048, 1 male cerdo 3, 9 de Nov–2002, H:11, CEUA –F 8097, (CEUA), 2 males Medellín, Forense, Universidad de Antioquia, Jameo, cerdo, Mayo 15 de 1999, A. Uribe Toro, 2 males Mayo 10 de 1999, 1 male Mayo 12 de 1999, 2 males Mayo 17 de 1999, 1 male Mayo 20 de 1999, 1 male Mayo 21 de 1999, 1 male Mayo 23 de 1999, 1 male Mayo 26 de 1999 (CEUA), 2 males Medellín, UdeA, Ciudad Universitaria, Basurero, Pollo– forense, Sacrificio Agosto 14/2006, Colecta Agosto 19/2006, G. Camacho, 1 male conejo, 1500 m, 14:00, S. Pérez, CEUA-F (CEUA), 6 males Medellín, UdeA, En cadáver de curí, 16:00, 30 de Nov. 2000, P. Duque (CEUA), 1 male Medellín, Universidad de Antioquia, 1460 msnm, Manual, Jardín (muerto), Grupo de Entomología, Nov 24/2005, CEUA (CEUA), 1 male Medellín, UdeA, Microestación, Forense- Cur enterrado, Mar. 1/02, CEUA –F 5125, Calliphoridae, U. Herrera Fontan (CEUA), 1 male Medellín, Universidad de Antioquia, 1480 msnm, Manual colonia, Grupo de Entomología, Nov 24/ 2005, CEUA 29531, J. Berrio (CEUA), 1 male Medellín, Momia 87, 28 –05–01, Fannia sp. M. W. (CEUA), 1 male La Pintada, Camping Los Farallones, 770 m, Canchas, 5˚44’45”N, 75˚36’34”W, VSR (Van Someren-Rydon) pescado, Marzo 16/ 2007, M. C. Vélez and E. Florez, CEUA (CEUA); Risaralda: 1 male Pereira, Vereda Mundo Nuevo, Finca La Acuarela, 1550 msnm, Cerdo 1, Manual–Potrero, Hora: 5:00, Oct. 19/2006, Diana Grisales, CEUA F, 1 male Hora: 7:00, Oct. 15/2006, 1 male Hora: 10:00, Oct. 22/2006 (CEUA), 1 Male Pereira, SFF Otún– Quimbaya, 1890 m, Bosque Robledal, T. VSR pez N˚2, Col. Entomología, 0 7 May 0 1, CEUA 16248 (CEUA); Caquetá: 1 male Florencia, Vda. Sebastopol, Fca La Magola, 305 m, Cerdo sol, Dic.4/2004, Y. Ramos, CEUA –F 483, 1 male CEUA –F 487, 1 male Dic.10/2004, CEUA –F 317, 1 male Dic.9/2004, CEUA –F 1289, 1 male Dic.9/2004, CEUA –F 1290, 1 male Dic.9/ 2004, CEUA –F 1290 (CEUA).
Distribution. Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador, St. Vincent Island, Guadalupe Island, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Bahamas, Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Chile, Galapagos Islands, Easter Island; North America, Pacific, West Africa, Mediterranean (de Carvalho et al. 2003). Colombia: departments of Magdalena and Córdoba (Caribbean region), Antioquia and Risaralda (Andean region, Central Cordillera), Santander (Andean region, Eastern Cordillera) and Caquetá (Amazon region).
description: Published as part of Grisales, Diana, Wolff, Marta & De, Claudio J. B., 2012, Neotropical Fanniidae (Insecta, Diptera): new species of Fannia from Colombia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 3591 on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213946