Lucilia problematica Johnson, 1913

Whitworth, Terry, 2014, A revision of the Neotropical species of Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Zootaxa 3810 (1), pp. 1-76 : 39

14. Lucilia problematica Johnson, 1913

Tables 1, 2

Lucilia problematica Johnson, 1913: 448 . Holotype male (USNM, not examined). Type locality: Bermuda.

Lucilia problematica: Woodley & Hilburn 1994: 13 ; Whitworth 2010: 25 ; Kosmann et al. 2013: 77.

Phaenicia problematica: Hall 1948: 253 ; James 1970: 11.

Diagnosis. This species appears nontypical for the genus, the body color is metallic-tan and specimens look somewhat teneral, the coloration resembles the Galápagos species L. deceptor . They share similar body color, an orange to yellow basicosta and all abdominal tergites with microtomentum, but the male frons in L. problematica is only 0.02 of head width at narrowest in males while L. deceptor males have a wide frons, about 0.23 of head width at narrowest.

Description. See Whitworth (2010) for details of this species characters.

Distribution. Only six specimens are known, from the island of Bermuda, it was last collected in 1934. On a collecting trip to the island Woodley and Hilburn (1994) looked for this species and did not find it. They concluded it is likely extinct.

Discussion. Two females from the Melander Collection (USNM) were examined ( Whitworth 2010).