Reclustering the cluster flies (Diptera: Oestroidea, Polleniidae)
Author
Cerretti, Pierfilippo
Author
Stireman III, John O.
Author
Badano, Davide
Author
Gisondi, Silvia
Author
Rognes, Knut
Author
Giudice, Giuseppe Lo
Author
Pape, Thomas
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Systematic Entomology
2019
2019-08-31
44
957
972
journal article
10.1111/syen.12369
991d3cda-9d4f-4daa-b869-bf15935c1842
3402822
Family Polleniidae
Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889
stat. rev
.
Diagnosis
. Small to medium-sized oestroid flies varying from yellow to black in ground colour. Facial sclerite at least weakly carinate [with few exceptions, e.g.
Pollenia griseotomentosa
(Jacentkovský)
]. Stem vein bare dorsally. Anal vein not reaching wing margin. Posterodorsal margin of hind coxa bare. Prosternum and proepisternal depression bare. Postalar wall setose (occasionally bare in small specimens of
Morinia
). Female: ovipositor sclerite length moderate; sternite 8 of ovipositor elongate with apex entire; cerci long and narrow. Male: ventral and ventrolateral surface of distalmost parts of distiphallus smooth.