Chrysomya laxifrons Villeneuve 1914

This is one of three South African species with the anterior wing margin black/strongly infuscated.

• Anterior spiracle white
• Genae golden
• Proepimeral seta present
• Frons of female subparallel, fronto-orbital plate with upper part black and lower part bright, reddish

• Eyes in male widely separated, frons at its narrowest point
  measuring 0.5 or more times eye width; without demarcation between dorsal and ventral facets

Original description in:
Villeneuve, J. 1914. Description d'espèces africaines nouvelles du genre Chrysomyia Rob.-Desv. (Dipt.). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1914
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8246868#page/234/mode/1up

Photos of female museum specimen:
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1057539012

Photos from Natural History Museum London: https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb?q=laxifrons&view_id=6ba121d1-da26-4ee1-81fa-7da11e68f68e&filters=preservative%3ADry+%28pinned%29&field=associatedMediaCount&value=

Distribution in southern Africa: Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
New record from eSwatini on iNaturalist

iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234134174

References:

Lutz, L. Williams, K. a., Villet, M. H., Ekanem, M. Szpila, K. 2018. Species identification of adult African blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of forensic importance. International Journal of Legal Medicine.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00414-017-1654-y

Irish, S. R., Lindsay, T, Wyatt, N. 2014. Key to Adults of Afrotropical species of the genus Chrysomya Robineau-Desvoidy. African Entomology 22(2)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276054123_Key_to_Adults_of_Afrotropical_Species_of_the_Genus_Chrysomya_Robineau-Desvoidy_Diptera_Calliphoridae

Publicado el agosto 13, 2024 10:12 MAÑANA por traianbertau