Megaselia scalaris

TaxID: 36166

Basic Information

Megaselia scalaris

Coffin Fly, Scuttle fly

The fly Megaselia scalaris is a member of the order Diptera and the family Phoridae, and it is widely distributed in warm regions of the world. Members of this family are commonly known as "humpbacked flies", "coffin flies", and "scuttle flies". The name "scuttle fly" derives from the jerky, short bursts of running, characteristic to the adult fly. The name "coffin fly" is due to their being found in coffins, digging six feet deep in order to reach buried corpses. It is one of the more common species found within the family Phoridae; more than 370 species have been identified within North America.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Diptera

Phoridae

Megaselia

scalaris

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Megaselia scalaris
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(c) Royal Tyler@BY-NC-SA
Megaselia scalaris
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(c) yukioz@BY-NC
Megaselia scalaris
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(c) unknown@CC0
Megaselia scalaris
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(c) thegreenjay@BY-NC
Megaselia scalaris
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(c) unknown@CC0

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (5 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Armenia Absent —
Belarus Absent —
Kazakhstan A1 list 2017
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Russian Federation A1 list 2014

Distribution (54 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Algeria Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Belarus Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Brazil Present —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Present —
China Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_000341915.2 Scaffold 489 - 5 -

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature