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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 05-06-2008 23:45
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I found this sarcophagid in Oporto in the last 1st of June. Does this belong to the genus Sarcophaga or another genus?  |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 06-06-2008 00:03
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Difficult to be absolutely sure, but I'd say this was a female Sarcophaga africa
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 06-06-2008 16:28
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Tony, can you explain why, please? Chris recently said that orange genitalia is not usually found in the genus Sarcophaga, and that surprised me because I thought that was a common feature to the genus. |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 06-06-2008 19:00
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Orange genitalia is not a feature of Sarcophaga (subgenus Sarcophaga), but does occur in other subgenera, such as Bercaea (which includes africa). S.africa is a fairly common species which has orange genitalia, a ruff of white hairs at the back of the head and very short and fine dorsocentrals apart from the last pair. There may be other species with this combination of features, but I'm not familiar with them.
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 06-06-2008 20:03
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Ok, thank you for the explanation Tony . |
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