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Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) sternalis Reinhard

Description

Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) sternalis (Reinhard)

(Figs. 40–45)

Emblemasoma sternalis Reinhard 1939: 62.

Archimimus sternalis: Reinhard (1952: 141).

Sarcophaga (Neobellieria) sternalis: Pape (1996: 367).

Type material: holotype ɗ labelled ‘Donna / 5–18–1932 Tx’; ‘ Holotype / E. / sternalis / Reinhard’; ‘ Emblemasoma / sternalis / Rein. det. H. J. Reinhard’; ‘ Holotype / Archimimus / sternalis / Reinhard’; ‘ Archimimus / sternalis /Rnh.’; ‘ Holotype / CNC No. 10735’ (CNC). Paratype ɗ, same data as holotype (not examined).

Other material examined: USA: California: Kern Co., 16.x.1937 (1ɗ, CNC); Yuba Co., Brownsville, 10.xi.1907 (1ɗ, FSCA); MEXICO: Nuevo Leon: Mamulique Pass, 2km. NE on microwave rd., 17– 18.vi.1982, 2000', dry wash (1ɗ, GD).

Description (male): body length 12.0–13.0 mm.

Head: 9–13 pairs of medioclinate frontal setae. Genal setae black, postgena with at least some white or yellow setae.

Thorax: proanepisternum bare.

Wing: dark hairs on lateral margin of alula as long as those on anterior margin of anal lobe. Hairs fringing calypters creamy-white to pale brown.

Legs: hind tibia without long, wavy posteroventral hairs.

Abdomen: tergite 5 same color as other abdominal tergites or with pale brown or orange-yellow margin on apical half or third, with a marginal row of strong setae, sometimes two middle (dorsal) ones slightly or clearly anterior to the others.

Terminalia: cerci and syntergosternite 7+8 same color as epandrium. Surstylus without a small posteroventral projection. Window of sternite 5 forming an elevation anteriorly on base. Pregonite with pointed lateral extension. Vesica and juxta as in Figs. 40–41. Juxta in posterior view as in Fig. 42.

Female: unknown.

Notes

Published as part of Giroux, Marjolaine & Wheeler, Terry A., 2010, Systematics of Bulbostyla, a new subgenus of Sarcophaga Meigen, and change of status for Robackina Lopes (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), pp. 35-59 in Zootaxa 2553 on pages 48-49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196855

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Sarcophaga
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Reinhard
Species
sternalis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Reinhard, H. J. (1939) New genera and species of muscoid Diptera. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 34, 61 - 74.
  • Reinhard, H. J. (1952) New North American Muscoid Diptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 84, 140 - 147.
  • Pape, T. (1996) Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the world (Insecta: Diptera). Memoirs on Entomology, International, 8, 1 - 558.