Handbook of Medical EntomologyRiley, William A. (William Albert)
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Handbook of Medical Entomology
Riley, William A. (William Albert)
Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease; Medical parasitology
jj. Anterior inner dorsocentrals and the setæ; on the
extensor surface of the hind tibia wanting. _M.
micans_, etc. Europe and North America. _Morellia_
R. D.
ff. Squamula thoracalis not broadened mesad and caudad, not
reaching the margin of the scutellum; macrochætæ on
extensor surface of the hind tibia wanting.
g. Eyes pubescent. _M. meditabunda._ Europe and America.
_Myiospila_ Rdi.
gg. Eyes bare; R_1 ends before the middle of the wing. A
number of species from the tropics of both hemispheres.
_Clinopera_ V. d. W.
bb. Hypopleuræ with a vertical row of macrochætæ.
c. Eyes pubescent.
d. R_1 ends about opposite the r-m crossvein; basal section of
R_{4+5} bristly nearly to the crossvein; _S. enigmatica_.
Africa. _Somalia_ Hough
dd. R_1 ends distad of the r-m crossvein.
e. Eastern hemisphere. Australasia. _N. ochracea_, _dasypthalma_.
_Neocalliphora_ Br.
ee. Western Hemisphere. _T. muscinum._ Mexico. _Tyreomma_ V. d.
W.
cc. Eyes bare.
d. The vibrissal angle situated at a noticeable distance above the
level of the margin of the mouth.
e. Sternopleural macrochætæ arranged in the order 1:1.
f. Genæ with microchætæ.
g. Body grayish, with depressed yellow woolly hair among the
macrochætæ; wings folded longitudinally over the body
when at rest. Cluster flies. _P. rudis_ and related
species, widely distributed. _Pollenia_ R. D.[N]
gg. Body metallic blue or green. Eastern Hemisphere.
h. Vibrissal angle placed very high above the oral margin;
a carina between the antennæ; outer posthumeral
wanting; anterior intraalar present. _T. viridaurea_.
Java. _Thelychæta_ Br.
[Illustration: 167. Horn fly. (_a_) egg; (_b_) larva; (_c_) puparium;
(_d_) adult. (×4). Bureau of Entomology]
hh. Vibrissal angle moderately high above the oral margin;
carina small or wanting; no post humeral macrochæta;
lower squamæ hairy above. (= _Paracompsomyia_ Hough)
(fig. 166). _Pycnosoma_ Br.
ff. Genæ bare. _S. terminata_. Eastern Hemisphere
_Strongyloneura_ Bigot
ee. Sternopleurals arranged 2:1.
f. Body metallic green or blue, with gray stripes; genæ hairy
to the lower margin; post humerals often wanting; lower
squamæ bare above. (= _Compsomyia_ Rdi.). CHRYSOMYIA R. D.
g. With one or two orbitals; height of bucca less than half
the height of the eye. South and east U. S. (fig. 107).
C. MARCELLARIA
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