In the Sarcophagans, or flesh-eaters, as the name implies, the bristles on the antennæ are feathered.
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Sarcophagan
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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.
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Other insects, including a sarcophagan fly, a gnat, a sciarid fly, and two harmless mosquitoes dwell in the pitchers.
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See Chapters 2–5, and reduce the number of your Drosophila dissections to Sarcophagan levels!
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