Taxonomy
Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen
1826
Subgenus: Lioproctia
Enderlein 1928
Species: alcicornis Hardy 1932
Biology
Labels from pinned
specimens from the Australian National Insect Collection
(ANIC) include: ‘ex dead grubs’, ‘ex corn’ and ‘ex scrub’
(Lopes, 1954). Sarcophaga
alcicornis has also been
collected at decayed carrion-baits by KAM.
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN – (Australia – New South Wales, Queensland).
Relevant Literature
Hardy, G.H. (1932) Some new Australian sarcophagid flies: and notes on others. The Australian Zoologist 7, 275-281.
Lopes, Hde Souza. (1954) Contribution to the knowledge of the Australian Sarcophagid flies belonging to the genus "Tricholioproctia" Baranov, 1938 (Diptera). Publication of Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 26(2), 234-276.