A new record of Iranihindia martellata (Senior-White, 1924) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from peninsular Malaysia and female identification using both morphology and DNAbased approaches
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2010
Abstract
Iranihindia martellata (Senior-White, 1924) is recorded from peninsular Malaysia for the first time. Male and female specimens in the recent collections of forensically important sarcophagid flies were examined and identified based on morphology and DNA sequencing analysis. Male genitalia offer unambiguous species identification characteristics in the traditional taxonomy of flesh flies but the female flies are very similar to one another in general morphology. Female of I. martellata was determined by DNA sequencing (COI and COII) and PCR-RFLP (COI) analysis. Identified females were carefully examined and compared with the morphologically similar species, Liopygia ruficornis (Fabricius, 1794). Female genitalia are re-described and illustrated in this paper.
Keywords
Animals, DNA/genetics
Divisions
Science
Funders
The short-term grants F0163/2004A and F0181/2005C from University of Malaya, Malaysia,The National eScience Fund 02-01-03-SF0092 received from MOSTI
Publication Title
Tropical Biomedicine
Volume
27
Issue
2
Publisher
Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine
Additional Information
Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia