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
(
Sarcorohdendorfia
)
megafilosia
Pape, McKillup and McKillup
(Figure 50a,b,c)
Sarcophaga megafilosia
Pape, McKillup and McKillup, 2000
Morphological characters.
Gena with setulae only or 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 a mix of black and yellow/white in both sexes, but some female specimens with setulae only yellow/white. 1st and 2nd abdominal sternites with setulae only yellow/white. Body length
10–15 mm
.
Geographical distribution.
Australia
(New South
Wales
, Queensland)—AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN.
Biology.
Sarcophaga megafilosia
is a parasitoid of specimens of the littoral snail
Littoraria filosa
, having shells ≥
10mm
in length (McKillup
et al.
2000; Pape
et al.
2000;
McKillup & McKillup 2002
;
2010
).
Taxonomy.
DNA barcode sequences of
S
.
megafilosia
have been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.