Microcerella erythropyga (Lopes, 1936)

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 : 19

Microcerella erythropyga (Lopes, 1936)

( Figs. 1 , 7 )

Xenoppia erythropyga Lopes, 1936b: 71 .

Distribution: Neotropical – Argentina (Buenos Aires, Córdoba), Brazil (Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo).

Material studied: Buenos Aires: 1 ɗ Burzaco, Alte. Brown, X.2002, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS); 4 ɗ Campana, Campana, III.2003, Mariluis leg. ( ANLIS); 1 ɗ Camet Norte, Mar Chiquita, XI.2007, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS); 7 ɗ Ministro Rivadavia, Alte. Brown, XI.2005 on liver, Mulieri leg.; 1 Ψ Ministro Rivadavia, Alte. Brown, XI.2005, on liver, Mulieri leg.; 2 ɗ Ministro Rivadavia, Alte. Brown, II. V.2006 on liver, Mulieri leg.

Remarks: Male terminalia originally described and illustrated by Lopes (1936b), then redescribed with the addition of the female terminalia by Lopes (1972).

Biology: Obtained from Bulimulus taenuissimus (d’Orbigny) (Gastropoda, Bulimulidae ), probably as a necrophage ( Lopes 1969b). We captured M. erythropyga with rotten liver bait.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. 1. Microcerella erythropyga, arista. 2. Sarcophaga (Lipoptilocnema) lanei, arista. 3. Oxysarcodexia varia, head frontal view, male. 4. S. (L.) koehleri, head frontal view, male. Scale bars = 0.20 mm. Abbreviations: fr s, frontal setae.

FIGURES 5 – 7. 5. Microcerella muehni, male abdominal sternites, ventral view. 6. M. acrydiorum, female abdominal sternite 7 + 8, ventral view. 7. M. erythropyga, female abdominal sternite 7 + 8, ventral view. Scale bars = 0.20 mm. The arrow shows the hump at distal part. Abbreviation: ST, sternite.