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Pegomyia tacta Huckett
Pegomyia tacta Huckett, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, lxv, p. 16, 1939.
I have placed tacta tentatively in the inter secta -subgroup, in which I believe it finds its closest affinities. The male of tacta may be readily recognized by the peculiar horny appearance of copulatory appendages and by the soft fine bristling on basal sclerite of hypopygium. The prosternum in all specimens that I have seen has a pair of bristles, a character which may occasionally appear in the subfamily as an aberration. The palpi in the male may or may not be tinged with fuscous distad, and in the female sex it is weakly bristled and narrowly spatulate in outline.
Alberta: i d Edmonton, July 9 1929, (E. H. Strickland), type, [C. N. C.]. 1 d same locality, June 13 1936, (E. H. Strickland), paratype, [A. N. S. P.]. Manitoba: i 9, Birtle, August 20 1928, (R. D. Bird), Allotype, [C. N. C.].
- bibliographic citation
- Huckett, H.C. 1941. A Revision of the North American Species Belonging to the Genus Pegomyia (Diptera: Muscidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 10. Philadelphia, USA
