Udamopyga percita ( Lopes, 1938 )

Mariluis, Pablo Ricardo Mulieri Juan Carlos & Patitucci, Luciano Damián, 2010, Review of the Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina), with a key and description of a new species, Zootaxa 2575, pp. 1-37 : 32

Udamopyga percita ( Lopes, 1938)

Sarcophaga percita Lopes 1938: 344 .

Distribution: Neotropical – Argentina (Buenos Aires new record), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo).

Material studied: Buenos Aires: 1 ɗ Burzaco, Alte. Brown, III.2002, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS); 5 ɗ, 1 ΨBurzaco, Alte. Brown, V–XII.2005 on faeces and liver, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS); 1 ɗ, 3 Ψ Burzaco, Alte. Brown, III.2007 reared from bovine liver, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS).

Remarks: The original description of U. percita included illustrations of male terminalia ( Lopes 1938). The redescription by Lopes (1940) included illustrations of both male and female genital structures.

Biology: In Argentina , this species has been reared from snails. Host. Gastropoda, Xanthonychidae : Epiphragmophora hemiclausa Scott Hylton ( Lopes 1969b) . Gastropoda, Bulimulidae : Bulimulus vervoorsti Weyrauch ( Lopes 1969b) . Adult flies were captured on faeces and rotten liver, and the species was successfully reared on the latter bait by authors.