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A TACHINID BRED FROM A CHRYSALIS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. H. Tyler Townsend
Affiliation:
Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Extract

Meigenia websteri, n. sp.

Female.—Head a little wider than thorax and abdomen. Eyes brown, very sparsely hairy; front and face not quite one half the width of head; front a little prominent; frontal vitta about one-fourth the width of front, brown, lighter behind where it splits on each side of the ocelli; frontal bristles in a single row, descending a little below base of third antennal joint, some fine hairs on sides of front outside them; two orbital bristles; sides of front with a slightly brassy tinge; sides of face moderately wide; a little less than one-half the width of the facial depression, silvery, bare; face slightly receding, facial depression silvery, facial ridges cliliate to a little below base of third antennal joint; cheeks moderately wide, cinereous, hairy, with bristles on lower border; vibrissæ inserted at a little distance above the oral margin; antennæ not as long as the face, blackish, third joint slightly reddish at base; second joint not elongate, bristly; third joint not widened, more than three times as long as the second; arista black, microscpically pubescent, thickened more than half its length, three-jointed, the second joint hardly elongate; proboscis, brown, fleshy, not so long as height of head, labella well developed, palpi well developed flavous club-shaped, thickened and curved at the tip, black bristly; occiput cinereous, gray hairy below, with fringe of black hairs on orbital margins.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1891

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