Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) subdiscalis Aldrich

Giroux, Marjolaine & Wheeler, Terry A., 2010, Systematics of Bulbostyla, a new subgenus of Sarcophaga Meigen, and change of status for Robackina Lopes (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Zootaxa 2553, pp. 35-59 : 49

Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) subdiscalis Aldrich

( Figs. 46–51 )

Sarcophaga subdiscalis Aldrich 1916: 219 .

Sarcophaga (Neobellieria) subdiscalis: Pape (1996: 367) .

Type material: holotype ɗ labelled ‘Anglesea / 6–11–05 NJ.’; ‘HbK’; ‘gen dr’; ‘ Type No. / 20548 / U. S. N. M.’; ‘ Sarcophaga / subdiscalis / Ald.’ ( USNM).

Other material examined: USA: Maryland: nr. Laurel, Patuxent Wildl. Ref., 8.vi.1967, Malaise trap (1ɗ, USNM); North Carolina: Highlands, 3000–5000 ft, Apr–May 1936 (1ɗ, USNM);

Description (male): body length 10.5–12.5 mm.

Head: 12–16 pairs of medioclinate frontal setae. Genal setae black, postgena with at least some white or yellow setae.

Thorax: proanepisternum bare.

Wing: dark hairs on lateral margin of alula as long as those on anterior margin of anal lobe. Hairs fringing calypters pale to dark brown or black.

Legs: hind tibia with long, wavy posteroventral hairs.

Abdomen: tergite 5 with orange-yellow margin on apical half or third, sometimes entirely yellow, row of strong setae forming half circle on apical third.

Terminalia: cerci and syntergosternite 7+8 same color as epandrium. Surstylus without a small posteroventral projection. Window on sternite 5 almost even with rest of base. Pregonite with pointed lateral extension. Vesica and juxta as in Figs. 46–47 . Juxta in posterior view as in Fig. 48 .

Female: unknown.

Remarks: The right wing and the epandrium (with cerci, surstylus and phallus) are glued on the third label of the holotype specimen.

Figures

FIGURES 46 – 51. Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) subdiscalis. 46. Phallus and hypandrial complex, left lateral. 47. Acrophallus, anterior. 48. Acrophallus, posterior. 49. Epandrium, surstylus and cerci, lateral. 50. Epandrium, surstylus and cerci, posterior. 51. Male sternite 5, ventral. Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 46 – 48), 0.5 mm (Figs. 49 – 51).