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Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) seniorwhitei Ho

Description

Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) seniorwhitei Ho

(Figure 55a,b,c)

Sarcophaga seniorwhitei Ho, 1938

Sarcophaga flavinervis Senior-White, 1924

Morphological characters. Gena with setulae mostly yellow/white. Occiput with at least one row of black setulae behind the ocular setae, with setulae only yellow/white ventrally. Prescutellar acrostichal setae present. Proepisternum uniformly setulose, with setulae only black. 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 (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)— AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN, ORIENTAL, PALAEARTIC.

Biology. Sarcophaga seniorwhitei has been collected in mixed deciduous forests (Bänziger & Pape 2004) and from mountain ranges in Korea (Park 1977). This species has also been reared from fish, chicken and horse meat under laboratory conditions (Pérez-Moreno et al. 2006).

Notes

Published as part of Dowton, Mark & Pape, Thomas, 2013, A key to the Australian Sarcophagidae (Diptera) with special emphasis on Sarcophaga (sensu lato), pp. 148-189 in Zootaxa 3680 (1) on page 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/222104

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Sarcophaga
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ho
Species
seniorwhitei
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Ho, C. (1938) On some species of Sarcophaga from Java and its neighbouring islands. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 32, 115 - 127.
  • Senior-White, R. A. (1924) A revision of the sub - family Sarcophaginae in the Oriental region. Records from the Indian Museum, 26, 193 - 283.
  • Banziger, H. & Pape, T. (2004) Flowers, faeces and cadavers: natural feeding and laying habits of flesh flies in Thailand (Diptera: Sarcophagidae, Sarcophaga spp.). Journal of Natural History, 38, 1677 - 1694. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 0022293031000156303
  • Park, S. - H. (1977) Studies on flies in Korea II - taxonomic studies on sarcophagid flies (Diptera). Bulletin of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 24, 249 - 284.
  • Perez-Moreno, S., Marcos-Garcia, M. A. & Rojo, S. (2006) Comparative morphology of early stages of two Mediterranean Sarcophaga Meigen, 1826 (Diptera; Sarcophagidae) and a review of the feeding habits of Palaearctic species. Micron, 37, 169 - 179. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. micron. 2005.07.013