Thread subject: Diptera.info :: postalar wall

Posted by Di-dier on 02-08-2008 15:18
#1

Hi,
Knut Rognes in his key to palearctic Calliphoridae (genera, Contributions to a manual of palearctic diptera. Vol. 3) uses a feature that I don't know: the postalar wall which is setose or bare. I've never seen this term anywhere else. Is it the surface below the postalar callus?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Posted by Tony T on 02-08-2008 19:59
#2

The Nearctic book defines it thus: "A ridge running from the anterolateral angle of the scutellum to the wing base is called the postalar ridge, and the ventrolateral surface below the postalar ridge is called the postalar wall (postalar declivity)."

Edited by Tony T on 02-08-2008 19:59

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 02-08-2008 20:46
#3

I think it is the same as suprasquamal ridge using in genus Musca ID

Posted by Di-dier on 04-08-2008 17:43
#4

Thank you for your answers! Smile