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Oxysarcodexia varia

Lateral view

Australian distribution

Male genitalia (phallus), lateral view

Male genitalia (entire), lateral view

Male genitalia (entire), lateral view

Taxonomy

Subfamily: Sarcophaginae

Genus: Oxysarcodexia Townsend 1917

Species: varia Walker 1836 (Sarcophaga)

Biology

Oxysarcodexia varia has been collected from dung, decayed carrion-baits, open scrub and carcasses (Mulieri et al., 2008) and is also proposed to be linked to rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RDH) in New Zealand (Henning et al., 2005). This is the only species recorded from this genus in Australia.

Distribution

AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN – (Australia – New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria), NEOTROPICAL.

Relevant Literature

Henning, J., Schnitzler, F.-R., Pfeiffer, D.U., and Davies, P. (2005) Influence of weather conditions on fly abundance and its implications for transmission of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus in the North Island of New Zealand. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 19, 251-262.


Mulieri, P.R., Schnack, J.A., Mariluis, J.C., and Torretta, J.P. (2008) Flesh flies species (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from a grassland and a woodland in a Nature Reserve of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Revista de Biología Tropical 56(3), 1287-1294.


Walker, F. (1836) 'Diptera.' In Descriptions, &c. of insects collected by Captain P.P. King, R.N., F.R.S., in the survey of the Straits of Magellan. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 17, 331-359.