Protodictya chilensis Malloch 1933
Creators: name: Murphy, William L.
name: González, Christian R.
name: Elgueta, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciomyzidae
Protodictya
Protodictya chilensis

description: chilensis Malloch, 1933: 319–321, text figs. 56c, 57e–g
Holotype. Male (NHMUK), Chile, Peulla.
Distribution. Argentina: Buenos Aires Province (Buenos Aires), Río Negro Province (Lago Nahuel Huapi, Río Villegas, Road 243 at 2 km N Chubut Province border, San Carlos de Bariloche), Chubut Province (El Maitén 24 km S, Gobernador Costa 26 km S). Chile: Región de Atacama: Copiapó Province (Monte Amargo); Región de Coquimbo: Choapa Province (Carén, Hacienda Illapel near 35 km NE Illapel, Illapel); Región de Valparaíso: Los Andes Province (Piscicultura), Marga Marga Province (Limache), Valparaíso Province (Casablanca 12 km W); Región Metropolitana de Santiago: Chacabuco Province (Caleu), Santiago Province (Noviciado, Peñalolén, Santiago 15 km N & 11 km SW), Cordillera Province (Baños Morales 4 km W, El Alfalfal, Los Maitenes, Valle Los Piuquenes, Puente Alto); Región del Maule: Curicó Province (Curicó 3 km NE), Linares Province (Fundo Las Cruces at E Parral); Región del Biobío: Biobío Province (Los Ángeles 3 & 50 km N, Mulchén 16 km N, Salto del Laja), Región de La Araucanía: Malleco Province (Angol, Chiguaihue near Angol, Dumo, Lago Galletué, Marimenuco, Sierra Nevada E Túnel las Raíces), Cautín Province (Villarrica); Región de Los Ríos: Valdivia Province (Río Pilmaiquén at Road 5 S); Región de Los Lagos: Osorno Province (Lago Llanquihue shore NE, Osorno 5 km N), Llanquihue Province (Ensenada, Ensenada 8 km W, Llanquihue, Maullín, Peulla, Puerto Varas).
References. Malloch 1933: 303 (fig. 56c head), 317 (figs. 57e–g male terminalia); Stuardo 1946: 151 (catalog); Steyskal 1950: 33 (key), 34 (comments); Boyes et al. 1969: 345, 348–349, 352 (cytotaxonomy); Abercrombie 1970: 25–26, 82–92 (biology, habitat); 172–174 (keys to mature larva and puparium); 179–184 (immature stages); 297–298, 301 (geographic distribution); Knutson et al. 1976: 9 (catalog); Marinoni 1990: 8–11 (redescription, geographic distribution, figs.); Marinoni & Knutson 1992: 27 (key), 37 (fig. 1 male terminalia), 38 (fig. 9 male terminalia), 39 (fig. 17 female postabdomen), 40 (fig. 23 geographic distribution); Marinoni & Carvalho 1993: 414 (comments, fig. 1a male terminalia), 415 (fig. 2a spermatheca), 416 (phylogeny); Marinoni 1995: 58, 134 (list), 112 (photo adult); Marinoni & Mathis 2000: 165 (table 1 character states); 173 (fig. 36 antenna); 175 (fig. 56 female terminalia); 180, 184, 190 (figs. 99, 146, 190 male terminalia); 199 (figs. 284– 286 male terminalia); Knutson & Vala 2011: 39 (biology), 278 (fig. 15.7d female terminalia), 440 (geographic distribution), 453 (table 21.1 world checklist), plate 1b (photo of adult collected in Valparaiso by Charles Darwin), plate 1d (drawing of adult male).
description: Published as part of Murphy, William L., González, Christian R. & Elgueta, Mario, 2022, A catalog of the Sciomyzidae of Chile, with a key to genera (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea), pp. 261-278 in Zootaxa 5099 (2) on page 270, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/6048580