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Houseflies of the Tristan Da Cunha Islands: New Records, Including the First for Fannia Albitarsis Stein, 1911 (Diptera: Fanniidae, Muscidae) ZOBODAT - www.zobodat.at Zoologisch-Botanische Datenbank/Zoological-Botanical Database Digitale Literatur/Digital Literature Zeitschrift/Journal: Beiträge zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology Jahr/Year: 2008 Band/Volume: 58 Autor(en)/Author(s): Hänel Christine, Pont Adrian C. Artikel/Article: Houseflies of the Tristan da Cunha Islands: new records, including the first for Fannia albitarsis Stein, 1911 (Diptera: Fanniidae, Muscidae). 211-222 ©www.senckenberg.de/; download www.contributions-to-entomology.org/ Beitr. Ent. Keltern ISSN 0005 - 805X 58(2008) 1 S. 211 - 222 15.07.2008 Houseflies of the Tristan da Cunha Islands: new records, including the first for Fannia albitarsis St e in , 1911 (Diptera: Fanniidae, Muscidae) With 3 figures C h r i s t i n e H a n e l and A d r i a n C. P o n t Summary Information about the Fanniidae and Muscidae Houseflies of the south Atlantic island group of Tristan da Cunha, from the earliest records to the most recent findings, is presented and discussed. In total, five species belonging to four genera are recorded. This includes the finding for the first time of Fannia albitarsis St e in , 1911 in the archipelago and Muscina stabulans (Fa ll e n , 1817) on Nightingale Island. Based on material collected in 2005 from the two northern islands, Tristan da Cunha and Nightingale, records and notes are given on four species. A discussion of the correct taxonomic rank of Coenosia trina W ie d e m a n n , 1830 is given. The apparent proliferation of this species, and the possible implications that this may have on endemics, is noted. Zusammenfassung In der Arbeit werden historische und aktuelle Funde von Hausfliegen der Familien Fanniidae und Muscidae auf den Inseln der Tristan da Cunha-Gruppe im Südatlantik zusammengefaßt und diskutiert. Das aktuelle Material wurde 2005 auf den nördlichen Inseln, Tristan da Cunha und Nightingale, gesammelt. Insgesamt sind fünf Arten in vier Gattungen nachgewiesen, einschließlich der Erstnachweise von Fannia albitarsis St e in , 1911 innerhalb des Archipels und von Muscina stabulans (Fa ll e n , 1817) auf der Insel Nightingale. Die korrekte taxonomische Einordnung von Coenosia trina W ie d e m a n n , 1830 wird diskutiert. Auf die offensichtlich starke Verbreitung dieser Art und den möglichen negativen Einfluss auf die heimische Fauna wird ebenfalls hingewiesen. Key words Diptera, Muscidae, Fanniidae, Housefly, Lesser Housefly, Stable fly, Tristan da Cunha, Nightingale, Gough, Inaccessible, Island, South Atlantic. Introduction The islands of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago were discovered by Portuguese explorers, Gough in 1505 and the northern three islands in 1506 (Ryan & G lass, 2007). Situated in the South Atlantic between 37°S; 12° W and 40°S; 09°W (see description with locality map in H an el & H eyn e, in press, and further details on Nightingale in H an el & H a e n n i, 2007), the first recorded landings were made in the 17th century by European traders en route to the east. In the 18th century, visits were mainly by sealers, many from the Americas, who lived on the islands for the DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.1.211-222 ©www.senckenberg.de/; download www.contributions-to-entomology.org/ 212 H a n el, Ch & Po n t , A. C.: Houseflies of the Tristan da Cunha Islands: new findings purpose of exploiting the animal resources. These visits together with castaways and shipwrecks formed the first unnatural bridges to the Tristan territory. Through them, plants and animals were purposely or unwittingly introduced that under natural conditions would not be able to cross the vast expanse of ocean that separates the Island group from the nearest continental landmasses. Amongst the introduced invertebrate species are likely to have been flies that could well have included members of the family Muscidae. Flies of the families Muscidae, commonly referred to as 'House flies', and Fanniidae, generally known as 'Lesser Houseflies', are thought to have established themselves at Tristan da Cunha well before the first settler did in 1811. The earliest 'evidence' of this appears to be an account published in 1818 that records the observations of Captain Dugald C arm ich ael, who stayed on Tristan da Cunha from 27 November 1816 to 30 March 1817 with the British garrison sent to annex the Island. According to C arm ichael (1818: 497-498): "... the only insects I observed are three small species of Curculio; four of Phalaena; one of Hippobosca; two of M usca; and one of Oniscus"... "The common window-fly of the Cape was not observed until two months after our arrival; but before I left the island, it had begun to be troublesome." At this distance of time, it is not possible to identify the species of Musca mentioned by C arm ich ael, nor has his Musca material been located. The concept of Musca in 1818 was considerably broader than it is now, including many of the common Calliphoridae as well as species of the presentday tribe Muscini of the Muscidae. Whilst C arm ichael very probably did observe Musca domestica L in n a eu s, this cannot be certain, and the identity of his second "Musca" must remain doubtful, though we put forward the suggestion that it may well have been the introduced calliphorid greenbottle, Lucilia sericata (M e ig en , 1826), which Frey (1954) records from Tristan, Nightingale, Stoltenhoff and Inaccessible islands. We also note that the type of the endemic Tristan dolichopodid M edeterus (now Hydrophorus) carmichaelii W alker, 1849 originally formed part of the collection of the Edinburgh entomologist W. E. L each (1790-1836) and then went with his collection to the Natural History Museum, London, in 1826 (H orn & K a h le, 1935: 151). However, our searches at that museum have not located any Muscidae or Fanniidae collected by C arm ichael that may formerly have been part of the L each collection. It is also not possible to offer any definitive suggestion as to the identity of C arm ichael’s "common window-fly of the Cape". However, it should be noted that C hristopherson (1940: 199-200), the leader of the Norwegian Expedition to Tristan da Cunha in 1937-1938, referred to plagues of flies on the beaches which also entered the houses ("the window-panes were sometimes black with them"), and these are very probably the species that C arm ichael called his "window-flies". We believe that they were swarms of the anthomyiid Fucellia tergina (Z ettersted t, 1845), which was recorded from Tristan by Frey (1954: 42) as Fucellia maritima (H aliday, 1838). This is an abundant seashore fly with larvae that live in decaying seaweeds, which often reaches astronomical numbers, and Frey (l.c.) included the following entries in his list of specimens of maritima: "Tristan da Cunha: 5.XII.1937, ca. 50 Ex. 'The Expedition-building. Collection made indoors in our newly-built home, about 20 metres above sea-level' __ 10-11.I.1938, zahlreiche Exemplare. 'The mountain-plateau towards the West. Collected inside the tent and in the nearest environments about 600 metres above sea-level.'". These observations suggest that the species has a propensity to enter buildings and shelters, and offers support for our suggestion that this species is Carm ichael’s "window-fly". Whilst F. tergina is not known to occur on the South African coast, the closely similar Fucellia capensis S chin er, 1868 is a widespread and common seashore fly in southern Africa and, in the early 19th century, would certainly not have been distinguished from F. tergina. DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.1.211-222 ©www.senckenberg.de/; download www.contributions-to-entomology.org/ Beitr. Ent. 58(2008) 1 213 Some 57 years later, Dr. Rudolf von Willem o es-Su h m , the entomologically orientated 'naturalist' on the H.M.S. Challenger, spent a few hours ashore at Tristan, Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands between 15 and 17 October 1873, collecting 'everything he could find'. In a preliminary report published before the voyage had ended, von Willem o es-Su h m (1876: 583-585) lists the taxa he collected. Under flies he states: "D iptera. - 1. Muscid, everywhere". Amongst the many accounts that resulted from the Challenger voyage, Professor Henry M oseley (1892: 115-116), confirmed: "There are ... a Hippobosca, Musca, and Tipula, mentioned by Captain C arm ichael as found in Tristan da Cunha; we found them a ls o ." . The first solid evidence of Muscidae (including Fanniidae) on the Tristan da Cunha archipelago was made available through the specimens collected during the Norwegian Expedition to Tristan da Cunha in 1937-1938. The findings amounted to two species; the Lesser Housefly Fannia canicularis (Lin n a eu s, 1761) and the Stable fly Muscina stabulans (Fa llen , 1817), both cosmopolitan tramps typically associated with human settlements (Frey, 1954). Subsequently, the Gough Island Scientific Survey, 1955-56, collected the first record from Gough Island, the fanniid F. canicularis (O ldro yd, 1958). Since then updates involving the Muscidae and Fanniidae have resulted from the following three surveys: the Royal Society's Expedition to Tristan da Cunha, 29 January to 20 March 1962 (Ba ir d , 1965; H oldgate, 1965); a multidisciplinary floristic-faunistic study on Inaccessible Island (including one day on Nightingale Island), October/November1989 (C arvalho et al., 2003); and the Gough Island Terrestrial Invertebrate Survey, September 1999 to September 2001 (Jones et al., 2003). This paper is based primarily upon a collection made on Tristan da Cunha and Nightingale Islands in early 2005 (H a n e l, 2005). The collection formed part of a brief Invertebrate project that was inserted into a larger programme entitled "Empowering the People of Tristan da Cunha to Implement the Convention on Biological Diversity [CBD]" (RSPB, 2004-2005).
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