calypter

(kəˈlɪptə)

a bastard wing or alula

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Noun

calypter - scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly

alula

squama - a protective structure resembling a scale

fly - two-winged insects characterized by active flight

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Upper calypter ridge setulose, lower calypter broad, truncate posteriorly, extending under base of scutellum (fig.11).

Houseflies (Diptera: Muscidae) associated with rabbit carcasses in Jeddah City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Calypter yellowish with dense brownish microtrichae, margin with thin, sparse long setulae.

Phyllomyza (Diptera: Milichiidae) newly found in Tibet with descriptions of two new species

Wings with internal margin of the inferior calypter truncated, projecting towards the scutellum; superior calypter slightly infuscate around it (Figs.

Nueva especie de Mesembrinella (Diptera: Calliphoridae: Mesembrinellinae) para Colombia

Legs wholly black, mid femur with complete row of pv, upper calypter brownish suffused, lower calypter paler coei --Legs uniformly testaceous to dark brown, mid femur with 3-5 pv on basal half, calypters yellow to yellow-brown alaba 7.

The holarctic species of the Delia alaba subsection, with descriptions of two new species (diptera: anthomyiidae)

Anterior spiracle whitish; lower calypter whitish with darkish setulae; the branch of vein M1 + 2 forming acute angle as it approaches the wing edge.

New records of blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from Amazonian Venezuela

quadricornis Melander, but it can be separated from the latter by the following features: halter darkish brown; calypter yellowish; surstylus narrowed apically; cercus flat apically.

Neophyllomyza (Diptera: Milichiidae) recorded from China with descriptions of three new species

It unquestionably belongs to the calyptrate family Anthomyiidae because of the following combination of characters: (1) head holoptic in male, dichoptic in female; (2) female with a pair of crossed interfrontal setae; (3) lower calypter well developed; (4) tiny hair-like setulae present beneath tip of scutellum; (5) vein A1 extended to wing margin as a weak fold; (6) male surstyli and cerci united by vertical sclerotized connections immediately distal to lateral cercal apodemes; (7) spiracles VI and VII present in female abdomen.

Proposal of Karliella gen. n. for the Afrotropieal 'Pegomya' sexpunctata Karl, 1935 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), a possible kleptoparasite of dung-breeding beetles

Margin of upper calypter whitish yellow with fringe of short white setulae; margin of lower calypter blackish brown with short white setulae.

Revision del genero neotropical Cerantichir (Diptera: Neriidae) con nuevos registros y clave de especies

--lower calypter well developed dark white at base only.

Characterization of forensically important necrophagus flies (Diptera) of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Lower calypter yellow with brownish cilia, haltere yellow.

Review of the Afrotropical genus Aphasmaphleps Grichanov (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)