Figure 4. Suitable distributional areas for the scuttle fly Megaselia scalaris and the scorpion Mesobuthus eupeus mongolicus predicted with ecological niche modeling. The map shows the climatically suitable range for the scuttle fly under the minimum training presence threshold which included all known training occurrence points and under 10 percentile training presence threshold in which 10% of the occurrence points used in training models was omitted. Distribution for M. eupeus mongolicus was generated from Shi, Liang, et al. (2015). The crossed circle indicates the place where parasitised scorpions were collected.

Published as part of Zhang, Xue-Shu, Liu, Guang-Chun, Zhang, De-Xing & Shi, Cheng-Min, 2016, Novel trophic interaction: the scuttle fly Megaselia scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) is a facultative parasitoid of the desert scorpion Mesobuthus eupeus mongolicus (Scorpiones: Buthidae), pp. 1-15 in Journal of Natural History 51 (1-2) on page 9, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1236222, http://zenodo.org/record/5179996