Milichia farquharsoni

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Milichia farquharsoni

Distribution

Africa: West Tropical Africa (Ivory Coast present, Nigeria present)

Citation

figs of head, hind tibia, costal break; haunting the carton nest of Crematogaster ants (Collin 1922: XII. Description of a new genus and two new species of Cecidomyidae, and six new species of acalyptrate Muscidae (Ephydridae and Milichiidae). – Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1921: 504-517,4pls: 514)
description of male, Nigeria (Deeming 1976: Four new short-faced species of the genus Milichia Meigen with a key to the Nigerian members of the group (Diptera: Milichiidae). – Ent. scand. 7: 35-40: 39)
phylogenetic relationships (Brake 1999: Prosaetomilichia de Meijere: a junior subjective synonym of Milichia Meigen, with a phylogenetic review of the M. myrmecophila species-group (Diptera, Milichiidae). – Tijdschr. Ent. 142: 31-36: 35)
type information (Pont 1995: The type-material of Diptera (Insecta) described by G.H. Verrall and J.E. Collin, Oxford University Mu: 71)
Afrotropical catalog
myrmecophilous on Crematogaster (Farquharson 1921: Notes on the life-history of Milichia argyratoides, and the habits of other Milichiidae. – Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1921: 444-447: 444)
Ivory Coast (Brake 2000: Phylogenetic systematics of the Milichiidae [Diptera, Schizophora]. – Ent. scand. Suppl. 57: 1-120: 12)