The Diptera genus-group names of Charles Henry Tyler Townsend are reviewed and annotated. A total of 1506 available genus-group names in 12 families of Diptera are listed alphabetically for each name, giving author, year and page of original publication, originally included species, type species and method of fixation, current status of the name, family placement, and a list of any emendations ...

Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is a synanthropic fly with worldwide distribution that pollinates plants and relevant in medical, veterinary, forensic sciences. L. diurnal species whose vision plays an important role spatial orientation. Here we evaluated the electrophysiological responses (ERG) of sericata’s compound eyes adults both sexes from Colombia their behaviora...

To determine the pattern-orientation discrimination ability of blowflies, Phaenicia sericata, a learning/memory assay was developed in which sucrose served as the reward stimulus and was paired with one of two visual gratings of different orientations. Individual, freely walking flies with clipped wings were trained to discriminate between pairs of visual patterns presented in the vertical plan...

Forensic entomologists rely on laboratory growth data to estimate the time of blow fly colonization on human remains. Several data sets exist for the development of the common blow fly Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae), and although they generally describe similar rates of preadult development, all vary. Such differences could be explained by genetic variation, environmental (r...