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
i. Posterior dorsocentrals inconstant and unequally
developed; one pair of posterior inner
dorsocentrals. _P. terrænovæ._ North America.
_Protophormia_ Town.
ii. Posterior dorsocentrals well developed, the inner
dorsocentrals (acrostichals) unequally developed.
_P. azurea_, _chrysorrhœa_, etc. Europe and America.
_Protocalliphora_ Hough
hh. Mesonotum not flattened behind the transverse suture;
posterior inner and outer dorsocentrals inconstant and
unequally developed. _P. regina._ Europe and America.
_Phormia_ R. D.
ee. Species more or less rufous or yellow in color.
f. Anterior dorsocentrals wanting; first section of the
R_{4+5} at most only bristly at the base, bend near apex
of M_{1+2} rectangular, R_1 ends over the crossvein;
fronto-orbital macrochæta absent; eyes of the male
contiguous. _C. semiviridis._ Mexico. _Chloroprocta_
V. d. W
ff. With another combination of characters.
g. Body robust, of large size, abdomen elongate, not round;
genæ with several ranges of microchætæ; vibrissal ridges
strongly convergent; abdomen with well developed
macrochætæ; costal spine usually absent; eyes of the
male widely separated.
[Illustration: 171. Stigmata of the larvæ of Muscoidea. Third instar.
(_a_) Cynomyia cadaverina; (_b_) Phormia regina; (_c_) Chrysomyia
macellaria; (_d_) Musca domestica; (_e_) Sarcophaga sp.; (_f_) Oestris
ovis; (_g_) Gastrophilus equi; (_h_) Sarcophaga sp.; (_i_) Pegomyia
vicina; (_j_) Protocalliphora azurea; (_k_) Hypoderma lineata; (_l_)
Muscina stabulans. Magnification for f, g, and k, ×25; all others, ×
50.]
h. Peristome broad, pteropleural macrochætæ distinct; one
or two sternopleurals; in the female a single orbital
macrochæta; last abdominal segment without discal
macrochætæ; hypopygial processes of the male with a
long stylet; second abdominal segment of the female
sometimes much elongate. A. LUTEOLA (fig. 86).
Africa. The sub-genus _Chœromyia_ Roub. is included
here. AUCHMEROMYIA B. B.
hh. Peristome narrow; no pteropleurals, two
sternopleurals; two orbitals in the female; second
segment not elongate; the fourth with two well
developed discal macrochætæ. B. DEPRESSA. Africa.
BENGALIA R. D
gg. With another combination of characters.
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