A key to the Australian Sarcophagidae (Diptera) with special emphasis on Sarcophaga (sensu lato)
Author
Dowton, Mark
Author
Pape, Thomas
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Zootaxa
2013
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Sarcophaga
(
Parasarcophaga
)
misera
Walker
(Figure 36a,b,c)
Sarcophaga misera
Walker, 1849
Sarcophaga gamma
Johnston and Tiegs, 1921
Sarcophaga brunneopalpis
Johnston and Tiegs, 1922
Morphological characters.
Gena with setulae only or mostly yellow/white. Generally, occiput with setulae only yellow/white. However, some males have at least one row of black setulae behind the ocular setae, with setulae only yellow/white ventrally. Prescutellar acrostichal setae present. Proepisternum bare and males with long setulae on the hind tibia. 1st and 2nd abdominal sternites with short setulae in females. Body length
10–15 mm
.
Geographical distribution.
Australia
(New South
Wales
, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western
Australia
)—AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN, ORIENTAL, PALAEARCTIC.
Biology.
Sarcophaga misera
has been caught at decayed-carrion baits (by KAM), human faeces, carcasses and dead fish (
Das & Dasgupta 1982
;
Pérez-Moreno
et al.
2006
). This species has been documented as one of Queensland’s sheep myiasis flies (
Tryon 1917; referred to as
Sarcophaga frontalis
) and as a predator of the snail
Indoplanorbis exustus
(
Parashar
et al.
1997
)
.
Taxonomy.
The third-instar larva was described by
Ishijima (1967)
. DNA barcode sequences of
S
.
misera
have been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.