Sarcophaga (Parasarcophaga) misera Walker
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Sarcophaga (Parasarcophaga) misera Walker
(Figure 36a,b,c)
Sarcophaga misera Walker, 1849
Sarcophaga gamma Johnston and Tiegs, 1921 Sarcophaga brunneopalpis Johnston and Tiegs, 1922
Morphological characters. Gena with setulae only or mostly yellow/white. Generally, occiput with setulae only yellow/white. However, some males have at least one row of black setulae behind the ocular setae, with setulae only yellow/white ventrally. Prescutellar acrostichal setae present. 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.
Geographical distribution. Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia)—AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN, ORIENTAL, PALAEARCTIC.
Biology. Sarcophaga misera has been caught at decayed-carrion baits (by KAM), human faeces, carcasses and dead fish (Das & Dasgupta 1982; Pérez-Moreno et al. 2006). This species has been documented as one of Queensland’s sheep myiasis flies (Tryon 1917; referred to as Sarcophaga frontalis) and as a predator of the snail Indoplanorbis exustus (Parashar et al. 1997).
Taxonomy. The third-instar larva was described by Ishijima (1967). DNA barcode sequences of S. misera have been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sarcophagidae
- Genus
- Sarcophaga
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- misera
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Walker, F. (1849) List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London, 689 - 1172 pp.
- 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.
- Johnston, T. H. & Tiegs, O. W. (1922) New and known Australian sarcophagid flies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 34, 181 - 190.
- Das, S. K. & Dasgupta, B. (1982) Seasonal occurance of blow-flies and flesh-flies in Calcutta Oriental Insects, 16, 119 - 128. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1982.10434334
- Perez-Moreno, S., Marcos-Garcia, M. A. & Rojo, S. (2006) Comparative morphology of early stages of two Mediterranean Sarcophaga Meigen, 1826 (Diptera; Sarcophagidae) and a review of the feeding habits of Palaearctic species. Micron, 37, 169 - 179. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. micron. 2005.07.013
- Tryon, H. (1917) Report of the Government Entomologist, p. 53. In: Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, Queensland.
- Parashar, B. D., Rao, Y. V. S. & Rao, K. M. (1997) Effect of environmental temperature on development fecundity, survival and predation of the snail - predator Sarcophaga misera (Dipt., Sarcophagidae). Entomophaga, 42, 343 - 347. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02769827
- Ishijima, H. (1967) Revision of the third stage larvae of synanthropic flies of Japan (Diptera: Anthomyiidae, Muscidae, Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae). Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology, 18, 47 - 100.