A key to the Australian Sarcophagidae (Diptera) with special emphasis on Sarcophaga (sensu lato) Author Dowton, Mark Author Pape, Thomas text Zootaxa 2013 3680 1 148 189 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.11 44c24935-b556-4a73-ac78-ac237db77649 1175-5326 222104 2B8B0701-9452-4278-A029-F527F760F6A8 Oxysarcodexia varia (Walker) (Figure 13a,b,c) Sarcophaga varia Walker, 1836 Sarcophaga milleri Johnston and Tiegs, 1922 Morphological characters. Ground colour black, with bright gold microtrichosity on the parafacials and frontoorbital plate, but silver microtrichosity on the occiput. Gena with setulae only black. Occiput with at least one row of black setulae behind the ocular setae, with setulae only yellow/white ventrally. Prescutellar acrostichal and apical scutellar setae absent or present. Proepisternum bare. Body length 5–10 mm . Geographical distribution. Australia (Lord Howe Island, New South Wales , Tasmania, Victoria)— AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN, NEOTROPICAL. Biology. Oxysarcodexia varia has been collected from dung, decayed-carrion baits and carcasses ( Mulieri et al. 2008 ), and is also proposed to be linked to rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) in New Zealand ( Henning et al. 2005 ). It is one of the dominant flies on Lord Howe Island ( Ferrar et al. 1975 ). Taxonomy. This is the only species of this genus known from Australia . DNA barcode sequences of O . varia have been deposited in both GenBank and the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD).