Università degli studi di Sassari, Facoltà di Agraria - Gallizzi
Abstract
Eight species of Sarcophagan dipterans we obtained from laboratory
cultures of Porthetria dispar (L.), a defoliator of cork oak forests in Sardinia.
Of these species:
- Parasarcophaga exuberans Pand. and Parasarcophaga portschinskyi
Rohd. are new to the italian fauna;
- Parasarcophaga tibialis Macq., Parasarcophaga tuberosa Pand.,
Parasarcophaga uliginosa Kram. and Pseudosarcophaga affinis Fall. are new
to the sardinian fauna;
- Parasarcophaga exuberans Pand., Parasarcophaga misera Walk.,
Parasarcophaga tuberosa Pand. and Thyrsocnema corsicana Vill. are described
as being entomophagous for the first time.
P. dispar is previously unrecorded as a host of Parasarcophaga tibialis
Macq., while for Parasarcophaga uliginosa Kram. this host has been hitherto
unrecorded in Europe.
Biogeographical data for these species were analysed in terms of their
spatio-temporal dinamics, using a 10 km x 10 km grid U. T. M. map of
Sardinia for reference.
Using the metodology of the international project of the European
Invertebrate Survey, (chairman: Prof. Dr. JEAN LECLERCQ, Gemblaux-Belgium),
U. T. M. code Jists of aIl Sardinian towns were compiled
