Peckiamyia

Buenaventura, Eliana & Pape, Thomas, 2015, Phylogeny of the Peckia-genus group: evolution of male genitalia in the major necrophagous guild of Neotropical flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 15 (2), pp. 301-331 : 326

Genus Peckiamyia

The monophyly of Peckiamyia was supported by three uniquely derived apomorphies: (1) sternite IV with posterior setosity modified into a patch of strong setae, (2) surstylus with round proximal lobe equipped with strong setae, and (3) pregonite with strong setae proximally. Kutty et al. (2010) performed a phylogenetic analysis based on molecular data where the only representative of this genus, P. minutipenis , was nested within Peckia , although with low support. This was not supported by our morphology- and molecular-based results. In our morphological dataset, Peckiamyia was represented by three out of five of its currently described species ( Pape 1996), which together formed a strongly supported clade.