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Nomenclature & Description

Milichia patrizii Hennig

Fri, 2008-06-06 10:06 — Irina Brake
Diagnosis: 

Frons brown microtomentose except for grey microtomentose anterolateral corner, basoflagellomere with ventral angle, palpus and proboscis specialized, wing with a black flap at subcostal break, hind tibia with sharp anterodorsal ridge, male tergite 2-5 silvery microtomentose except for anterior margin of tergite 2.

Original genus: 
Milichia
Species epithet: 
patrizii
Author: 
Hennig
Year: 
1952
Parentheses: 
Absent
Page: 
612
Type data: 

Kenya. Nairobi (HT F BMNH)

Status: 
valid
Valid genus: 
Milichia
Valid species: 
patrizii
BDWD_rec_number: 
83745
Head: 

Eye short and scarce pubescent. Frons brown except for grey anterolateral corner, orbital plates subshiny. 3 orbital setae, middle one much shorter than posterior seta, no frontal setae. Antenna black, scape enlarged, as long as pedicel and strongle sclerotized, basoflagellomere with ventral angle. Palpus and proboscis as in Milichia farquharsoni (see Fig. 18, 19 in Hennig 1952)

Thorax: 

Thorax brown microtomentose, 1 pprn, 1 (posthumeral), 2 npl, 1 sa, 1 pa, 2 dc, 0 prsc, 2 sc of which the posterior pair is cruciate and directed vertically upwards.

Wing: 

Wing slightly yellowish with yellow veins, conspicuous black flap basal of subcostal break, calypter brownish, halter black.

Legs: 

Legs black except for yellow basitarsi, dorsal side of mid and hind tibiae highly shiny, flattened and slightly concave, hind tibia with sharp anterodorsal ridge.

Male abdomen: 

Tergite 2-5 silvery white microtomentose except for brown black anterior margin of tergite 2

Female abdomen: 

Tergite 2-5 shiny black except for brown grey microtomentose anterior margin of tergite 2 and 3.

Length: 
3 mm
Distribution: 

Kenya, South Africa

Biology: 

Females myrmecophilous, 'mugging' Crematogaster ants, see http://scienceblogs.com/photosynthesis/2009/05/the_ant-mugging_flies_of_....

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Biology of Milichiidae

Tue, 2007-01-30 16:53 — Irina Brake

The biology of the Milichiidae is rather diverse. Larvae are generally saprophagous and live in decaying plants, but several are coprophagous or even necrophagous.

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