Lucilia thatuna Shannon 1926
- Dataset
- First record of Lucilia bufonivora Moniez, 1876 (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from North America and key to North American species of the L. bufonivora species group
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Calliphoridae
- genus
- Lucilia
- species
- Lucilia thatuna
description
Description. See Hall (1948).
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Both sexes: Specimens often bluish, which separates them from the green or coppery L. sericata or the coppery L. cuprina. First flagellomere broader than width of parafacial at level of lunule, often cupped inward, inner margin often reddish, especially in female (Figs 7, 8). Palpus and basicosta yellow to orange. Three postsutural acrostichals. Male: Frons 0.05 (0.044 – 0.058 / 12) of head width, with frontal plates almost touching (Fig. 7), frons width is much narrower than in L. cuprina or L. sericata. ST 1 – ST 5 as in Fig. 15. T 3 with strong median marginal setae. Cercus, in profile, narrow with a blunt tip, distal half of inner edge slightly and smoothly curved posteriorly (Fig. 49). Surstylus digitate in profile. Aedeagus of L. sericata type (Figs 51 – 53). Paraphallus with a characteristic bifid tip (Fig. 52) which is not found in any other Lucilia species described by Rognes (1991). Pre- and postgonites as in Fig. 54. Bacilliform sclerites with the membrane between them with a characteristic V-shaped cleft (Fig. 55). Ejaculatory sclerite as in Fig. 56. Female: Frons 0.28 (0.27 – 0.36 / 10) of head width (Fig. 8). T 7 divided proximally to nearly half its length (Fig. 57). T 8 divided distally to nearly half its length. Cercus lobate and epiproct non-microtrichose. ST 7 narrowed distally (Fig. 58). ST 8 shaped as in L. silvarum but with the distal end straighter. Spermathecae as in Fig. 59.
Name
- Homonyms
- Lucilia thatuna Shannon 1926