ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Ultramorphology of eggs and first instar larvae in an egg-laying population of Blaesoxipha plinthopyga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Tuesday, November 13, 2012: 8:55 PM
200 C, Floor Two (Knoxville Convention Center)
Meaghan L. Pimsler , Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Thomas Pape , Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Jeffery K. Tomberlin , Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Aaron M. Tarone , Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Although flies in the family Sarcophagidae are believed to be exclusively facultatively viviparous, a laboratory maintained colony of Blaesoxipha plinthopyga has been observed to deposit clutches of viable eggs over multiple generations. The following is a description of the eggs and first instar larvae of this species.
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