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Scholastes lonchifer

Rango -what-

Coconut Fly

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Coconut Fly

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Lango ? (PK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: RANGE Cooks - French Polynesia - Pitcairn; ?Palmyra

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native, Endemic of se.Polynesia; S.Group - common; N.Group common; Land, lowlands; larvae in rotting coconuts

KEY FEATURES: Fly 6-7mmBL. HEAD cream with 3 dark red-brown bars between the eyes. THORAX dark red-brown, sides cream with dark median stripe. WINGS fine brown network leaving many clear windows. ABDOMEN dark red-brown. LARVA greenish-blue in rotten coconut flesh.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+++

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			+++

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Scholastes lonchifer Hendel, 1914
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Diptera; PLATYSTOMATIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: 28 specimens, 1977 & 1979, N.L.H.Krauss, in BPBM without ID, ID 5/2004 by xxxxxx as Scholastes bimaculatus. Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Scholastes xxxxx based on BPBM Rarotonga specimens, 5/2004.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zupB04a, zM02, zD04a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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