Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (Oct 2017)

A new species and new records of Oxysarcodexia Townsend (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from Brazil

  • Fernando da Silva Carvalho-Filho,
  • José Roberto Pereira de Sousa,
  • Maria Cristina Esposito

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 61, no. 4
pp. 349 – 353

Abstract

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Oxysarcodexia cocais sp. nov. from Brazil is described and illustrated based on male specimens collected in a babassu palm forest in the state of Maranhão. The remarkable elongated surstylus (as long as cercus) and U-shaped male sternite 5 distinguishes the new species from other species in the genus. In addition, Oxysarcodexia nitida Soares & Mello-Patiu, 2010 is recorded for the first time from Brazil, and Oxysarcodexia adunca Lopes, 1975 is a new record from the Brazilian Amazon. Keywords: Calyptratae, Oestroidea, Sarcophaginae, Flesh fly