Image of Aethiopomyia

Description:

Figures 1–6.Paleotachina smithii Townsend, 1921 (junior synonym of Aethiopomyia gigas (Stein, 1906), syn. n.), Muscidae 1 reproduction of illustration in Smith (1868, fig. 2) showing inclusion originally identified as “Echinomyia” sp. (i.e., Echinomya Latreille, 1805, junior synonym of Tachina Meigen, 1803, Tachinidae) 2–6 holotype male 2–3 entire slide 2 dorsal view 3 ventral view 4–6 inclusion 4 dorsal view (scale bar = 5.0 mm) 5 ventral view (scale bar = 5.0 mm) 6 enlarged portion of wing circumscribed in Fig. 4 (arrow indicates bend of vein M) (scale bar = 1.0 mm).