Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) alpha Johnston and Tiegs

Dowton, Mark & Pape, Thomas, 2013, A key to the Australian Sarcophagidae (Diptera) with special emphasis on Sarcophaga (sensu lato), Zootaxa 3680 (1), pp. 148-189 : 163

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scientific name	Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) alpha Johnston and Tiegs
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Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) alpha Johnston and Tiegs View in CoL

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Sarcophaga alpha Johnston and Tiegs, 1922 View in CoL

Morphological characters. Gena with setulae only or mostly yellow/white and occiput with setulae only yellow/ white. Prescutellar acrostichal setae present. Apical scutellar setae either absent or present in females. Proepisternum uniformly setulose with setulae only black, and males with long setulae on the hind tibia. In males, median patch of dense setae present at the base of the 4th abdominal sternite. Body length 10–15 mm.

Geographical distribution. Australia (Queensland)—AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN.

Biology. Sarcophaga alpha has been caught around rotten meat ( Johnston & Tiegs 1921), and at decayedcarrion baits by KAM.

Taxonomy. DNA barcode sequences of S. alpha have been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Sarcophagidae
Genus	Sarcophaga