Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sarcophaga africa ?
Posted by
zcuc on 08-12-2007 21:12
#1
Great news,
Send to the gallery.
Thanks again Tony.
#2
Nice thread. Impressive to see how succesfull you where in extracting genitalia your first time.
According to Lehrer (Sarcophaginae and Paramacronychiinae du Proche Orient, 2006) Sarcophaga (B.) africa is the only species of (su
genus Bercaea in Israel. Lehrer lives in Israel, so I expect him to know the fauna quiet well.
Other Bercaea species are from Africa. Of these species, only genitalia of S. (B.) burungae look a bit similar to your picture. According to Lehrer (Sarcophaginae de l'Afrique, 2003) "tergite genital est brun rougatre" but yours is "brun noiratre" (compare your image with arrow 2) as it is in S. (B.) africa.
Liekele
#3
Liekele -
If I translate correctly, Lehrer says that a
Bercaea with a black pregenital tergite is
africa, but a red pregenital tergite is
burungae. Does that mean that the flies in the picture at
http://www.dipter...to_id=1735 are misidentified?
#4
Tony,
I do not know whether picture in the gallery is S. (B.) africa or not. We need genitalia to give positive identification.
The genitalia in this case are really equal to S.(B.) africa as far as can be told by this quality of the picture.
We may exclude burungae because of a combination of arguments
(distribution, color of pregenital tergite and more or less the shape of genitalia).
Liekele
Posted by
Kahis on 15-12-2007 19:55
#5
Liekele Sijstermans wrote:
I do not know whether picture in the gallery is S. (B.) africa or not. We need genitalia to give positive identification.
The genitalia in this case are really equal to S.(B.) africa as far as can be told by this quality of the picture.
We may exclude burungae because of a combination of arguments
(distribution, color of pregenital tergite and more or less the shape of genitalia).
This thread keep on giving. Now it demonstrates one of the probems of examining male genitalia: you keep finding unexpected, interesting, possibly undescribed stuff
