Calliphora

• Main Authors: Rognes, Terry Whitworth With An Appendix By Knut, Whitworth, Terry
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Calliphoridae; Calliphora; Argentina; Uruguay; Seta; Alar; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6165938; https://zenodo.org/record/6165938

Key to the species of Neotropical Calliphora 1. Basicosta yellow to orange............................................................................. 2 - Basicosta brown to black................................................................................ 3 2. Genal dilation with black vestiture; katepisternal formula 1 + 1 (Whitworth, 2010, fig. 9); base of wing dark, infuscated along costa to apex of costal cell, angling back to anterior edge of basal medial and posterior cubital cells (as in Fig. 7); male frons broad, averaging 0.29 (0.028 –0.30/ 5) of head width; male and female genitalia unique (Whitworth 2010, figs. 10, 11, 18), see detailed discussion and illustrations in Whitworth (2010); known only from West Indies in Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica.................................................................................... C . maestrica - Genal dilation with reddish vestiture on front half or more; katepisternal formula 2 + 1 (Whitworth, 2010, fig. 8); base of wing hyaline; male frons much narrower, averaging 0.075 (0.07–0.08)/ 4 of head width; characters illustrated in Rognes (1991, figs. 132, 139–148) and Mello (1962, figs. 1–10); known in the Neotropical Region from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Falklands, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay........................................................................... C . vicina 3. Three postsutural intra-alar setae; lower calypter, rim and setal fringe whitish, especially near distal end (Fig. 3) (also in C . lopesi ); parafacial uniformly dark brown or black; male frons narrow, less than half the width of the parafacial at widest, 0.031 (0.030–0.031)/ 5 head width; surstylus broad in lateral view (Fig. 14), from rear, cerci often distinctly y-shaped (Fig. 15, yshape not distinct in photo); female, width of parafacial about equal to width of first flagellomere, 1.3 (1.1–1.5/ 5); known only from Costa Rica, El Salvador and Mexico (Fig. 1)..................................................... C . triseta - Two postsutural intra-alar setae; if three, then the first very tiny (sometimes in C . irazuana ); lower calypter rim and fringe brown to reddish brown (except white in C . lopesi ); lower half of parafacial orange color; male frons width variable; surstylus narrower in lateral view, from rear, parallel or V-shaped; female, parafacial 1.5– 2 x width of first flagellomere (except in C . irazuana ); ranges do not overlap except in C . irazuana ......................................................... 4 4. Rim of lower calypter pale with whitish setae; genal groove red (also often red in C . irazuana , but ranges do not overlap); supravibrissal setae on facial ridge weaker, ascending from the vibrissa about halfway to antennal base (Fig. 5); male frons broad, about 1.6x width of parafacial, 0.066 (0.06–0.07/ 5) of head width; male surstylus slender in lateral view, cerci shorter than surstyli (Figs. 10, 11); female, T 5 with no incision; known only from Brazil and Uruguay (Fig. 2)............ C . lopesi - Rim and fringe of lower calypter usually darker, reddish, brown or black (as in Fig. 4); genal groove usually dark brown to black; setae on facial ridge stronger, usually ascending up from the vibrissa two-thirds or more toward antennal base (Fig. 6); other characters variable................................................................................ 5 5. Known only from Central America; genal groove usually reddish like lower parafacial; anterior half of gena often reddishbrown; setae on occiput yellowish; sometimes a third tiny postsutural intra-alar seta (usually much smaller than in C . triseta ); male frons much narrower than width of first flagellomere, 0.034 (0.03–0.04/ 5) of head width; width of parafacial about equal to width of first flagellomere; surstylus slender in lateral view; cerci narrow in posterior view, about as long as surstylus (Figs. 8, 9); female parafacial 1.4x or less width of first flagellomere; known from higher elevations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico (Fig. 1) and is likely present in other Central American countries....................... C . irazuana - Known only from South America; genal groove usually dark brown to black, concolorous with gena color; gena all black to dark brown; white silky setae on occiput, extending into rear of postgena area; only two postsutural intra-alar setae; male frons wider than first flagellomere, 0.102 (0.09–0.12/ 5) of head width; width of parafacial about 1.9x width of first flagellomere; surstylus broader in lateral view; cerci broad in posterior view, shorter than surstylus (see Figs. 12, 13); female parafacial broad, about twice the width of first flagellomere, 2.3 (2.1–2.5/ 5); at high elevations in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela (Fig. 2)..................................................................... C . nigribasis : Published as part of Rognes, Terry Whitworth With An Appendix By Knut & Whitworth, Terry, 2012, Identification of Neotropical blow flies of the genus Calliphora Robineau- Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae) with the description of a new species, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 3209 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213088 : {"references": ["Rognes, K. (1991) Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 24, 272 pp.", "Mello, R. P. de (1962) Contribuicao ao estudo do genero Calliphora R. - D., 1830 (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 60, 263 - 274."]}