Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) sternalis (Reinhard)

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 : 48-49

Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) sternalis (Reinhard)

( Figs. 40–45 )

Emblemasoma sternalis Reinhard 1939: 62 .

Archimimus sternalis: Reinhard (1952: 141) .

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

Type material: holotype ɗ labelled ‘Donna / 5–18–1932 Tx’; ‘ Holotype / E. / sternalis / Reinhard’; ‘ Emblemasoma / sternalis / Rein. det. H. J. Reinhard’; ‘ Holotype / Archimimus / sternalis / Reinhard’; ‘ Archimimus / sternalis /Rnh.’; ‘ Holotype / CNC No. 10735’ ( CNC). Paratype ɗ, same data as holotype (not examined).

Other material examined: USA: California: Kern Co., 16.x.1937 (1ɗ, CNC); Yuba Co., Brownsville, 10.xi.1907 (1ɗ, FSCA); MEXICO: Nuevo Leon: Mamulique Pass, 2km. NE on microwave rd., 17– 18.vi.1982, 2000', dry wash (1ɗ, GD).

Description (male): body length 12.0–13.0 mm.

Head: 9–13 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 creamy-white to pale brown.

Legs: hind tibia without long, wavy posteroventral hairs.

Abdomen: tergite 5 same color as other abdominal tergites or with pale brown or orange-yellow margin on apical half or third, with a marginal row of strong setae, sometimes two middle (dorsal) ones slightly or clearly anterior to the others.

Terminalia: cerci and syntergosternite 7+8 same color as epandrium. Surstylus without a small posteroventral projection. Window of sternite 5 forming an elevation anteriorly on base. Pregonite with pointed lateral extension. Vesica and juxta as in Figs. 40–41 . Juxta in posterior view as in Fig. 42 .

Female: unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 40 – 45. Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) sternalis. 40. Phallus and hypandrial complex, left lateral. 41. Acrophallus, anterior. 42. Acrophallus, posterior. 43. Epandrium, surstylus and cerci, lateral. 44. Epandrium, surstylus and cerci, posterior. 45. Male sternite 5, ventral. Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 40 – 42), 0.5 mm (Figs. 43 – 45).