Scatella (Scatella) stagnalis (Fallen 1813)
- Dataset
- Catalogue of the Egyptian Ephydroidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Ephydridae
- genus
- Scatella
- species
- Scatella stagnalis
description
Dates of collection: December to May.
distribution
Distribution: AF: Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zaire. AU: French Polynesia, Hawaiian Is. NE: Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, OR: Japan, Taiwan. PA: Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Faroe Is., Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Madeira Is., Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine. Egyptian localities: It is a very common species, distributed in all Egyptian ecological zones except Gebel Elba. [Hafez (1947) recorded this species on Human excrement from Giza].