. Elementary text-book of zoology. Zoology. D1PTERA. art? set in vibration beneath two external valves by the expiration of air. Sub-order 1. Pupipara* (fig. 476). Lice flies. The body is stout; the three thoracic- segments are fused together, the abdomen is broad and often flattened. The antenna? are short, and often consist of but two joints. The suctorial proboscis is formed by the upper lip (labrum) arid the maxilla?. The legs are provided with toothed clasping claws, and the wings may be rudimentary or absent. The development of the embryo and of the larva takes place in the uterus-like v
. Elementary text-book of zoology. Zoology. D1PTERA. art? set in vibration beneath two external valves by the expiration of air. Sub-order 1. Pupipara* (fig. 476). Lice flies. The body is stout; the three thoracic- segments are fused together, the abdomen is broad and often flattened. The antenna? are short, and often consist of but two joints. The suctorial proboscis is formed by the upper lip (labrum) arid the maxilla?. The legs are provided with toothed clasping claws, and the wings may be rudimentary or absent. The development of the embryo and of the larva takes place in the uterus-like vagina. The maggot which issues from the egg (without pharyngeal framework or buccal hooks) swallows the secretion of large glandular appendages of the uterus (fig. 451) ; it undergoes several moults, and is completely developed when it is born, which occurs' just before it enters the pupal stage. They are parasitic, like lice, on the skin <ft' warm-blooded animals, rarely of eq//i (after F. Brauer). a, Larva. I, Male. i'<i rti, Nitzsch., Bee louse. Lntreillei Curt., without eyes and is parasitic on species of Vespertilio. Mclvphut/Hx orlnus L., Sheeptick. Anaperapallida parasitic on Swallows. i'1/iiinti L., horse-louse. Sub-order 2. Brachycera (Flies). Body of very various shape, frequently thick and FIG. 477.— stout, with an abdomen com- posed of from five to eight segments. Antenna- short, and usually composed of three joints with large, usually secondarily ringed terminal joint, to which is attached a simple or ringed bristle. Wings are almost always present. The larva? live in decaying matter in earth and water, partly also as parasites ; they are, in great part, maggots with hooked jaws, and pass into the pupal stage within the moulted cask-shaped larval skin (fig. 477). Many of them have the form of a pupa obtecta. Tribe 1. Muscaria. With frontal vesicle; proboscis usually with fleshy terminal lobe; maxilla? as a rule aborted; larvae without jaw f
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