Review of the Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina), with a key and description of a new species Author Mariluis, Pablo Ricardo Mulieri Juan Carlos Author Patitucci, Luciano Damián text Zootaxa 2010 2575 1 37 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.197479 c82289d3-39b9-4175-8ea7-5dabed8ca4ad 1175-5326 197479 Sarcophaga ( Bercaea ) africa ( Wiedemann, 1824 ) ( Fig. 17 ) Musca africa Wiedemann, 1824 : 49 . Sarcophaga cruentata Meigen, 1826 : 28 . Sarcophaga georgina Wiedemann, 1830 : 357 . Myophora squalida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 : 342 . Myophora villica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 : 340 . Sarcophaga aegra Walker, 1849 : 821 . Myophora blondeli Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 : 344 . Sarcophaga consobrina Rondani, 1860 : 391 . (Junior secondary homonym of Myophora consobrina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .) Myophora capensis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 : 347 . Sarcophaga nurus Rondani, 1860 : 392 . Sarcophaga zetterstedtii Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 439 . Sarcophaga iners Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 439 . Sarcophaga pabulorum Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 441 . Sarcophaga fulvipalpis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 442 . (Junior primary homonym of Sarcophaga fulvipalpis Macquart, 1844 .) Sarcophaga meigenii Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 442 . Sarcophaga inclyta Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 443 . Sarcophaga praeceps Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 480 . Sarcophaga fugax Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 481 . Myophora nitida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 510 . Myophora albidula Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 513 . Myophora commendata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 516 . Bercaea haemathura Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 551 . Bercaea agilis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 552 . (Junior secondary homonym of Sarcophaga agilis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 .) Bercaea oralis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 554 . (Junior secondary homonym of Sarcophaga oralis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 .) Bercaea agraria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 554 . (Junior secondary homonym of Sarcophaga agraria Robineau- Desvoidy, 1863 .) Bercaea meditata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 : 576 . Sarcophaga aequipalis Thomson, 1869 : 534 . Sarcophaga distinguenda Rondani, 1873 : 284 . Sarcophaga sejungenda Rondani, 1873 : 285 . Theria flavidula Bigot, 1880 : 151 . (Junior secondary homonym of Mulsantia flavidula Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 .) Thyrsotetradiscus friederichsianus Enderlein, 1928 : 20 . Mesothyrsia madagascariensis Enderlein, 1928 : 37 . (Junior secondary homonym of Sarcophaga madagascariensis Macquart, 1847 .) Distribution : Nearctic, Neotropical – Argentina (Buenos Aires), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul), Costa Rica , Cuba , Mexico , Paraguay – Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian/Oceanian. Material studied : Buenos Aires: 1 ɗ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, 31.I.1944 on rotten meat ( ANLIS ); 2 ɗ, 1 Ψ Burzaco, Alte. Brown, III.2002 , Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS ); 1 ɗ Burzaco, Alte. Brown, III.2002 on liver, Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS ); 1 Ψ Mar del Plata, Gral. Pueyrredon, XII.2004 , Mulieri leg. ( ANLIS ). Remarks : Sarcophaga ( B. ) africa has been misidentified by several authors as S. haemorrhoidalis (Fallén) . Good illustrations of the male terminalia can be found in Blanchard (1942a) and Shewell (1987) . Illustrations of the female terminalia also can be found in Shewell (1987) . Biology : This cosmopolitan species is regarded as highly synanthropic, and is attracted both to cadavers and faeces in Brazil ( Linhares 1981 ; Dias et al. 1984a , c ). Regarding the life cycle of S. africa , some authors have recorded it as coprophagous ( Bänziger & Pape 2004 ), necrophagous ( Romera et al. 2003 ), or as a facultative parasitoid on snails ( Coupland & Barker 2004 ). Host. Gastropoda, Helicidae and Hygromiidae ( Coupland & Barker 2004 ) . This species has a medical impact because it is known to cause traumatic, gastrointestinal and aural myiasis ( James 1947 ; Zumpt 1965 ; Guimarães et al. 1983 ; Lukin 1989 ; Sherman 2000 ; Uni et al. 2005 ).