Sylvicola notatus
Species of wood gnats
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Sylvicola notatus, also known by the common name outhouse fly,[1] is a species of wood gnat in the family Sylvicola. It is endemic to New Zealand.
| Sylvicola notatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Anisopodidae |
| Genus: | Sylvicola |
| Species: | S. notatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sylvicola notatus (Hutton, 1902) | |
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Taxonomy
The species was first described by Frederick Hutton in 1902, who named the species Rhyphus notatus.[2]
Description
Hutton described the species as follows:
Reddish-tawny, the flagellum of the antennas dark-brown. Thorax with five brown stripes, the middle one shorter than the lateral pair; scutellum and metanotum brown. Tips of the femora and tibiae brown. Halteres pale-yellowish. Wings pale brownish; the pterostigma and the tip, from the discal cell outwards, darkish-brown. A distinct round white spot in the submarginal cell, and another, touching it, in the first posterior cell. A brown spot in the anterior basal cell, and another on the chief cross-vein. Posterior cross-vein bordered with brown. Veins brown.[2]
The species body is 6 millimetres long, with a wing length of 6 millimetres.[2]
Distribution
The species is found widely across New Zealand.[2]
Gallery
Close-up of the wing
Close-up of the body
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