Hermetia illucens

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 157 meters (516 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hermetia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:

H. illucens (Black Soldier Fly)

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Further Reading

• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url , p. 179.
• Annals - Entomological Society of America. [College Park, Md., etc.]Entomological Society of America. url p. 366.
• Annals of the Entomological Society of America. [College Park, Md., etc.]: Entomological Society of America. url p. 366, p. 445, p. 497, p. 71.
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, New York Academy of Sciences. url p. 84.
• Annual report / Albany: University of the State of New York, 1902-1918. url p. 103, p. 126.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url .
• Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum. Trenton, N.J.: MacCrellish & Quigley, url p. 736.
• Annual report of the New Jersey state museum. 1901-12, 1914. Trenton, New Jersey. [etc.]1902-15. url p. 736.
• Bibliography of the more important contributions to American economic entomology. Washington: Govt. print. off., 1889-1905. url p. 107, p. 262, p. 64.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 153.
• Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Society, url p. 138, p. 147.
• Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Buffalo, N.Y.: The Society, 1874- url p. 174, p. 174.
• Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Bloomington, Ill.: The Laboratory, 1876-1918. url , , , p. 323.
• Check-list and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds' nests. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1959] url p. 232, p. 569.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url , p. 10, p. 1009, p. 1028, p. 1037, p. 1041, p. 1049, p. 1083, p. 1099, p. 11, p. 1128, p. 1148, p. 1155, p. 1193, p. 1211, p. 1230, p. 1266, p. 1273, p. 14, p. 146, p. 15, p. 181, p. 186, p. 19, p. 20, p. 21, p. 237, p. 245, p. 28, p. 28, p. 316, p. 340, p. 582, p. 742, p. 788, p. 871, p. 881, p. 934.
• Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia[Entomological Rooms of the Academy of Natural Sciences] url , p. 216, p. 455, p. 49, p. 492, p. 56, p. 59.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 109, p. 310.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 293.
• Index to the literature of American economic entomology. Melrose Highlands, Mass. [etc.], American Association of Economic Entomologists [etc.], 1917-62. url p. 174.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 281.
• Journal of economic entomology. [College Park, Md., etc.]Entomological Society of America [etc.] url p. 327.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 6 1986 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 104.
• Journal of the New York Entomological Society. Lawrence, Kan.: Allen Press [etc.] url p. 145, p. 151.
• List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British museum. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1848-55. url p. 20, p. 304, p. 514.
• Museum bulletin / Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1908-1916. url p. 103, p. 126.
• New Jersey insects / [John Bernhard Smith] Trenton, N.J.?: s.n., 1909 url p. 736.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 14.
• Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania, The Society. url p. 47.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 271, p. 271, p. 321.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url , , p. 151, p. 341, p. 56.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , p. 51, p. 522.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 1, p. 10, p. 1059, p. 189, p. 199, p. 250, p. 29, p. 30, p. 4, p. 48, p. 49, p. 50, p. 53, p. 64, p. 67.
• Systematic database of Musca names (Diptera): a catalog of names associated with the genus-group name Musca Linnaeus, with information on their classification, distribution, and documentation / Koenigstein: Koeltz Scientific Books, 1993 url p. 147, p. 84, p. 89.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 168.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng. [etc.]: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux [etc.] url p. 18, p. 266.
• The evaluation of poultry pest management techniques in Florida poultry houses / 1979. url , p. 117, p. 250, p. 272, p. 274, p. 277, p. 279, p. 281.
• The insect book: a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies, and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies / by Leland O. Howard. Garden City: Doubleday, 1916. url , p. 128.
• The insect book; a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies, by Leland O. Howard. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran & company, 1937. url , p. 128.
• Timehri. Demerara: "Argosy" url p. 141.
• Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Topeka, Kan.: W.Y. Morgan, 1903- url p. 295.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 20, 2007:

• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2596513
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Dip-132987
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14783212
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 130298
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 652597

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 629.970 based on 847 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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