Sylvicola notatus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Anisopodidae |
| Genus: | Sylvicola |
| Species: | S. notatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Sylvicola notatus (Hutton, 1902)
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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.
Taxonomy[edit]
The species was first described by Frederick Hutton in 1902, who named the species Rhyphus notatus.[2]
Description[edit]
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[edit]
The species is found widely across New Zealand.[2]
Gallery[edit]
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Close-up of the wing -
Close-up of the body
References[edit]
- ^ Scott, RR; Emberson, RM (1999). Handbook of New Zealand Insect Names: Common and Scientific Names for Insects and Allied Organisms. Entomological Society of New Zealand. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-95-976635-6.
- ^ a b c d Hutton, Captain F. W. (1902). "Additions to the Diptera fauna of New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 34: 179–196. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63443005.
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