Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919Various
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Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919
Various
Entomology -- California -- Periodicals; Entomology -- Periodicals; Zoology -- California -- Periodicals; Zoology -- Periodicals
The differences between these allied divisions are best indicated by a
key.
LARVAE
1. Spiracular disk with only the two long ventral lobes
remaining; spiracles lacking or vestigial; abdominal
segments with both dorsal and ventral welts; strictly
aquatic.
_Antocharia._
Spiracular disk surrounded by four or five short lobes;
spiracles large and functional; abdominal segments with
ventral welts only (except the dorsum of segment eight);
terrestrial or semiaquatic.
2. Body moderately elongated and covered with a long dark
pubescence; spiracular disk squarely truncated,
surrounded by five subequal stout lobes; mentum with
five subequal teeth, the lateral one of either side not
conspicuously reduced.
_Rhamphidaria._
Body very long and slender, glabrous; spiracular disk
obliquely truncated, surrounded by four slender naked
lobes; mentum with three subequal primary teeth and a
much reduced lateral tooth on either side.
_Dicranoptycharia._
PUPAE
1. Pronotal breathing-horns branched; aquatic.
_Antocharia._
Pronotal breathing-horns not branched; semiaquatic or
terrestrial.
2. Pronotal breathing-horns distinct, elongate-cylindrical.
_Rhamphidaria._
Pronotal breathing-horns apparently lacking, microscopic.
_Dicranoptycharia._
THE SUBTRIBE DICRANOPTYCHA
A Key to the Species of Dicranoptycha
LARVAE
1. Spiracular disk with the dark markings less extensive;
the mark of the lateral lobes not contiguous with the
spiracle or the triangular area on the disk; dorsal
marking indistinct or lacking.
_D. winnemana_ Alex.
Spiracular disk with the dark markings more extensive;
the mark of the lateral lobes suffusing the ventral inner
margin of the spiracle and usually closely approximated
or nearly contiguous with the triangular area on the
disk; dorsal marking black, transversely rectangular.
_D. minima_ Alex.
Description of the Species.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES
1916 _Dicranoptycha winnemana_ Alexander; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,
pp. 500, 501; Pl. 25, fig. 12.
_Larva._--Length, 20-22 mm.
Diameter, 0.9-1.1 mm.
Coloration varying from white to almost black depending on the nature
and amount of the food eaten which shows clearly through the
transparent integument. The fat-bodies likewise show through and give a
white color to the larva especially after death.
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