Thyreophora cynophila Panzer, 1798)
Bone skipper
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Musca cynophila Panzer, 1798
Conservation Status
Last record: 1850?
Rediscovered in 2009
Distribution
Europe (including Spain)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Panzer, G. W. F. (1798). Favnae Insectorvm Germanicae Initia oder Devtschlands Insecten, Heft 54, 24 pls. Nurnberg [ ¨ = Nuremberg].
Other references:
Azémar, F., Cazaban, F. and Pelozuelo, L. (2020). Breaking the silence: how shedding light on the bone-skipper fly Thyreophora cynophila (Diptera: Piophilidae) demonstrated it still has a large distribution area in the Pyrenees mountains, France. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e54868. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e54868
Beaumont, Clément et al. (2023). Observation of the elusive bone-skipper fly Centrophlebomyia furcata (Fabricius, 1794) at least 128 years after its last record in France, and additional data on Thyreophora cynophila (Panzer, 1794) in France (Diptera: Piophilidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.). https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2023.2239213
Carles-Tolrá, M. (2011). Primera cita de Thyreophora cynophila (Panzer) sobre cadáveres de aves (Diptera: Piophilidae: Thyreophorina). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 49: 355−356.
Carles-Tolrá, M. and Cañete, Saiz F. J. (2012). Primera cita de Thyreophora cynophila (Panzer) para la provincia de Cuenca (España) (Diptera: Piophilidae: Thyreophorina). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 50: 254.
Carles-Tolrá, M., Compaired, F. and Vlasco, J. (2011). Thyreophora cynophila (Panzer), Centrophlebomyia furcata (fabricius) and other dipterans associated to winter carcasses (Insecta: Diptera). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 48: 217-220.
Miguel Carles-Tolrá, Pablo C. Rodríguez and Julio Verdú (2010). Thyreophora cynophila (Panzer, 1794): collected in Spain 160 years after it was thought to be extinct (Diptera: Piophilidae: Thyreophorini). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 46: 1-7.
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Larquier, Corentin et al. (2023). Presence of the European bone-skipper fly Thyreophora cynophila (Panzer, 1798) (Diptera: Piophilidae) larvae in the cerebral cavity of large mammals and report of different insect larvae living inside mammal bones. Annales de la Société entomologique de France. https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2022.2156385
Martín-Vega, Daniel and Baz, Arturo. (2011). Could the “vulture restaurants” be a lifeboat for the recently rediscovered bone-skippers (Diptera, Piophilidae). Journal of Insect Conservation 15(5): 747-753. [Abstract]
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Daniel Martín-Vega, Arturo Beza and Verner Michelsen (2010). Back from the dead: Thyreophora cynophila (Panzer, 1798) (Diptera: Piophilidae) ‘globally extinct’ fugitive in Spain". Systematic Entomology 35(4): 607-613. [Abstract]
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