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Sarcophaga (Parasarcophaga) misera

Lateral view

Australian distribution

Male genitalia (phallus), lateral view

Male genitalia (entire), lateral view

Male genitalia (entire), lateral view

Taxonomy

Subfamily: Sarcophaginae


Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen 1826


Subgenus: Parasarcophaga Johnston & Tiegs 1921


Species: misera Walker 1849

Biology

Sarcophaga misera has been caught at decayed carrion-baits, human faeces, carcasses and dead fish (Das and Dasgupta, 1982; Pérez-Moreno et al., 2006). This species has been documented as one of Queensland’s sheep myiasis flies (referred to as Sarcophaga frontalis; Tyron, 1917) and as a predator of the snail Indoplanorbis exustus (Parashar et al., 1997). The third-instar larva was described by Ishijima (1967).

Distribution

AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN – (Australia –New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia), ORIENTAL, PALAEARCTIC.

Relevant Literature

Das, S.K., and Dasgupta, B. (1982) Seasonal occurance of blow-flies and flesh-flies in Calcutta  Oriental Insects 16(1), 119-128.

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, 47-200.

Parashar, B.D., Rao, Y.V.S., and Rao, K.M. (1997) Effect of environmental temperature on development fecundity, survival and predation of the snail-predator Sarcophaga misera (Dipt., Sarcophagidae). Entomophaga 42(3), 343-347.

P�rez-Moreno, S., Marcos-Garc�a, M.A., and 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(2), 169-179.

Tyron, H. (1917) Report of the Government Entomologist. Annual report of the Department of Agriculture, Queensland. p. 53.

Walker, F. (1849) 'List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum.' (British Museum: London) Part IV. pp. 689-1172.