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
ii. Base of the antennæ dorsad of the middle of the eye;
eyes of both sexes distinctly separated; dorsal
surface of the squamula thoracalis with black hairs;
two postsutural intraalar macrochætæ.
j. Hypopygium of the male large, with a pair of
slightly curved forceps whose ends are concealed
in a longitudinal slit in the fifth ventral
sclerite; third posterior inner dorso-central
(acrostichal) macrochætæ absent; anterior
intraalar rarely present; abdomen usually not
pollinose; the second segment without median
marginal macrochætæ; face yellow. _C. mortuorum_,
_cadaverina_, and related species. Both
hemispheres. _Cynomyia_ R. D.[O]
[Illustration: 170. Sepsis violacea; puparium and adult. (See page 297.)
After Howard.]
jj. Three pairs of posterior inner dorsocentrals
(acrostichals) present; second abdominal segment
with a row of marginal macrochætæ; genæ hairy, at
least above.
k. Hypopygium of the male with a projecting style.
_S. stylifera_. Europe. _Steringomyia_ Pok.
kk. Hypopygium of the male without style. _A.
stelviana_ B. B. _Acrophaga_ B. B.
hh. Arista usually plumose nearly to the tip; posterior
dorsocentrals and inner dorsocentrals (acrostichals)
well developed; dorsal surface of the squamula
thoracalis hairy; abdomen metallic and usually
pollinose; genæ hairy.
i. With one pair of ocellar macrochætæ. C. VOMITORIA,
ERYTHROCEPHALA, VIRIDESCENS, and related species.
Both hemispheres. CALLIPHORA R. D.
ii. With two strong pairs of ocellar macrochætæ. _E.
latifrons._ Pacific slope of the U. S.
_Eucalliphora_ Town.
ff. First section of R_{4+5} bristly near or quite half way to
the small crossvein; dorsal surface of the squamula
thoracalis is bare; the hypopygium of the male is
inconspicuous.
g. Genæ bare; posterior inner and outer dorsocentrals
distinct and well developed. _L. cæsar_, _sericata_,
_sylvarum_, and related species. Widely distributed in
both hemispheres (fig. 103). LUCILIA R. D.
gg. Genæ with microchætæ, at least down to the level of the
base of the arista.
h. Mesonotum flattened behind the transverse suture.
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