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Helicobia - NEW GENUS - Helicobia rapax - male
Copyright © 2014 Joe R.

Helicobia - NEW GENUS - Helicobia rapax - Male
Hanover, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
August 2, 2014
This is a lateral shot of a male's terminalia.

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Contributed by Joe R. on 5 November, 2014 - 7:52pm
Last updated 9 November, 2014 - 6:19pm

Moved
Moved from Helicobia.
… John F. Carr, 9 November, 2014 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sarcophaginae.
… John F. Carr, 6 November, 2014 - 6:55pm login or register to post comments

Compare...
See if it looks like this when extracted:
http://sarcophagidae.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/1439/media
… John F. Carr, 5 November, 2014 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

 
H. stellata?
I've added a better photo of the genitalia. It seems closer to H. stellata.
… Joe R., 6 November, 2014 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Reference
Illustrations are in

Roback, S. S. 1954. The evolution and taxonomy of the Sarcophaginae (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Illinois biol. Monogr. 23 (3-4): 1-181.

(Reference not seen.)
… John F. Carr, 10 November, 2014 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Updated photos
Helicobia stellata: http://diptera.org/sarco/Detail_s.php?RecordNumber=11636
Helicobia rapax: http://diptera.org/sarco/Detail_s.php?RecordNumber=11632
… John F. Carr, 10 November, 2014 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Helicobia rapax
Greg Dahlem, the American expert on Sarcophagidae, thinks this is probably H. rapax. That is the species you would expect based on the genus ID: rapax is very common, and it is the only species known from Illinois.
… John F. Carr, 9 November, 2014 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Error in the database
Thomas Pape informs me the photo of male terminalia on the rapax page is not of H. rapax, but the SEM images are. He also says the cerci are similar in the two species and they are separated by the shape of the distiphallus.
… John F. Carr, 7 November, 2014 - 2:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Odd
I agree it looks closer to H. stellata, which is not supposed to occur so far north.
… John F. Carr, 6 November, 2014 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

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