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sarcophagan en · NOUN

Etymology

Sarcophaga + -an

Meanings

1. Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
   • In the Sarcophagans, or flesh-eaters, as the name implies, the bristles on the antennæ are feathered. 1841, Thaddeus William Harris, A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts: Injurious to Vegetation, volume 3, page 412:
   • Other insects, including a sarcophagan fly, a gnat, a sciarid fly, and two harmless mosquitoes dwell in the pitchers. 1968, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, page 155:
   • This could prove a very important experiment: our difficulty is that there is no precise homology between the sarcophagan cuticle and that of other orders of insect; from the work of Wolfe (1954) and Dennell (1946) the dipteran epicuticle cannot be treated as having separate laminae of cuticulin and free lipid, such as we believe to be the state of affairs in other insects. 1964, Advances in Insect Physiology, volume 2:
   • See Chapters 2–5, and reduce the number of your Drosophila dissections to Sarcophagan levels! 2004, Daryl S. Henderson, Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols, page 4:

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