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Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) kohla Johnston and Tiegs

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Dowton, Mark & Pape, Thomas, 2013, A key to the Australian Sarcophagidae (Diptera) with special emphasis on Sarcophaga (sensu lato), pp. 148-189 in Zootaxa 3680 (1) on page 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/222104

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Sarcophaga
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Johnston and Tiegs
Species
kohla
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Johnston, T. H. & Tiegs, O. W. (1921) New and little-known sarcophagid flies from south - eastern Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 33, 46 - 90.
  • Hardy, G. H. (1927) Notes on Australian and exotic sarcophagid flies. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 52, 447 - 459.