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New host record for three scuttle flies, Megaselia flava , M. kanekoi and M. gotoi (Diptera: Phoridae), on the poisonous fungus Amanita ibotengutake (Agaricales: Amanitaceae)
Author(s) -
YAMASHITA Hiroshi,
TANAKA Chihiro,
NAKAYAMA Hiroto,
TUNO Nobuko,
OSAWA Naoya
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
entomological science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.536
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1479-8298
pISSN - 1343-8786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2005.00119.x
Subject(s) - phoridae , biology , amanita , host (biology) , fungus , zoology , agaricales , botany , ecology , taxonomy (biology)
We identified three species of fungivorous scuttle fly – Megaselia flava , M. kanekoi and M. gotoi – from eight fruit bodies of a fungus, Amanita ibotengutake , which has not previously been recorded as the host of these flies.