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
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Sarcophaga
(
Sarcosolomonia
)
crinita
Parker
(Figure 61a,b,c)
Sarcophaga crinita
Parker, 1919
Sarcophaga synia
Johnston and Tiegs, 1923
Morphological characters.
Gena with setulae mostly yellow/white in males, but only black in females. Occiput with at least one row of black setulae behind the ocular setae, with setulae only yellow/white ventrally. Prescutellar acrostichal setae present. Apical scutellar setae present in males, but either absent or present in females. Proepisternum bare. Body length
5–10 mm
.
Geographical distribution.
Australia
(Northern Territory, Queensland, Western
Australia
)— AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN, ORIENTAL.
Biology.
Sarcophaga crinita
has been caught at rabbit and chicken baits in
Pakistan
(
Shazia
et al.
2006
) and bred from “pieces of beef” in Sulawesi (
Blackith 1990
).