Meaning of sarcophagan | Babel Free

Definitions

Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.

Examples

“In the Sarcophagans, or flesh-eaters, as the name⟳ implies, the bristles on the antennæ are feathered.”

“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.”

“Other insects, including a sarcophagan fly⟳, a gnat, a sciarid fly⟳, and two harmless mosquitoes dwell in the pitchers.”

“See⟳ Chapters 2–5, and reduce⟳ the number⟳ of your Drosophila dissections to Sarcophagan levels!”

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