A key to the Australian Sarcophagidae (Diptera) with special emphasis on Sarcophaga (sensu lato)
Author
Dowton, Mark
Author
Pape, Thomas
text
Zootaxa
2013
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148
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.11
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Sarcophaga
(
Liosarcophaga
)
kohla
Johnston and Tiegs
(Figure 33a,b)
Sarcophaga kohla
Johnston and Tiegs, 1921
Morphological characters.
Gena with setulae a mix of black and 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 in females, but either absent or present in males. 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
in length.
Geographical distribution.
Australia
(Australian Capital Territory, New South
Wales
, Northern Territory, Queensland, South
Australia
, Victoria, Western
Australia
)—AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN, ORIENTAL.
Biology.
Sarcophaga kohla
has been reared from decaying molluscs by
Hardy (1927)
and collected at decayed-carrion baits by KAM.
Taxonomy.
DNA barcode sequences of
S
.
kohla
have been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.