Blaesoxipha (Gigantotheca) stallengi ( Lahille, 1907 )

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 : 11-12

Blaesoxipha (Gigantotheca) stallengi ( Lahille, 1907)

Sarcophaga stallengi Lahille, 1907: 89 .

Sarcophaga stallengi var. albicans Lahille, 1907: 91 . (Junior primary homonym of Sarcophaga albicans Wiedemann, 1830 .)

Distribution: Neotropical – Argentina (Buenos Aires, Salta, Santiago del Estero), Brazil (Bahia). Material studied. Salta: 4 ɗ, 3 Ψ (ANLIS).

Remarks: This species was cited for Buenos Aires by Pape (1996). However, the only materials available for examination was obtained from northern Argentina (Salta province). The male neotype of Lopesimyia albicans (Lahille) designated by Blanchard (1954) was not found at MACN, and presumably has been misplaced. The original description by Lahille (1907) included illustrations of the phallus. Good male terminalia illustrations were also provided by Blanchard (1954) and Lopes and Tibana (1982a). The female was described by Blanchard (1954) but not illustrated.

Biology: Host. Orthoptera, Acridoidea : Schistocerca cancellata (Serville) ( Blanchard 1954) . Salavin (1958) referred to this species as saprophagous, feeding on dead locust.