Sarcophaga (Liopygia) crassipalpis Macquart, 1839

Mariluis, Pablo Ricardo Mulieri Juan Carlos & Patitucci, Luciano Damián, 2010, Review of the Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina), with a key and description of a new species, Zootaxa 2575, pp. 1-37 : 30

Sarcophaga (Liopygia) crassipalpis Macquart, 1839

( Figs. 19, 21 )

Sarcophaga crassipalpis Macquart, 1839: 112 .

Sarcophaga dalmatina Schiner, 1862: 571 .

Sarcophaga securifera Villeneuve, 1908: 123 .

Parasarcophaga crassipalpis forma slovenica Č epelák, 1956: 682. Sarcophaga nodosoides Zumpt, 1961: 2 .

Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropical – Argentina (Buenos Aires), Chile, Uruguay – Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian/Oceanian.

Material studied: Buenos Aires: 1 ɗ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, 1.IV.1960 ( ANLIS); 2 Ψ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, I.1997 ( ANLIS); 1 ɗ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, 4.X.2004 on Condalia spp. ( FAUBA); 1 ɗ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, II.1998 emerged, Oliva leg. ( MACN); 1 Ψ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, II.1996 emerged, Oliva leg. ( MACN); 4 Ψ Mercedes, Mercedes, I.2004 ( ANLIS); 2 Ψ Olivos, Vicente Lopez, IX.1951 ( ANLIS); 1 Ψ Villa Elisa, La Plata, II.1976, Mariluis leg. ( ANLIS); 3 ΨSarandí, Avellaneda II.1997, Mariluis leg. ( ANLIS); 2 ɗ, 3 Ψ Bahia Blanca , Bahia Blanca , II.2002, De Arriba leg. ( ANLIS); 7 ɗ, 10 Ψ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, III.1987 myiasis in dog, Mariluis leg. ( ANLIS); 25 ɗ, 25 Ψ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, III.1987 reared from meat, Mariluis leg. ( ANLIS).

Remarks: Good illustrations of male terminalia can be found in Blanchard (1942a). The female terminalia were adequately illustrated by Shewell (1987).

Biology: Sarcophaga (L.) crassipalpis is necrophagous on dead vertebrates and insects ( Oliva 1997; Romera et al. 2003). In the present work, it was reared from rotten meat. This species has been cited as producing traumatic and cutaneous myiasis in domestic animals and man ( James 1947; Zumpt 1965; Lukin 1989; Sherman 2000; Uni et al. 2005). It has been recorded in human cases of intestinal myiasis caused by ingestion of larvae present in contaminated food ( Nagakura et al. 1984; Shiota et al. 1990), and in cases of ophthalmomyiasis ( Uni et al. 1999) and aural myiasis ( Morris 1987). In Argentina , Oliva (1997) reported S. (L.) crassipalpis as a forensic indicator. Flower visitor of Rhamnaceae ( Condalia spp.).

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 21. Sarcophaga, female terminalia, dorsal view (abdominal T 6). 17. S. (Bercaea) africa. 18. S. (Lipoptilocnema) argyrostoma. 19. S. (L.) crassipalpis. Posterior view of female mid femur with the shining striated sensory area white circled. 20. S. (Liopygia) argyrostoma. 21. S. (L.) crassipalpis.