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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

Subfamily: Sarcophaginae

Genus: Oxysarcodexia Townsend 1917

Species: varia Walker 1836 (Sarcophaga)

Distribution

AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN � (Australia � Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria), NEOTROPICAL.

Biology

Oxysarcodexia varia has been collected from dung, decayed carrion-baits and carcasses (Mulieri et al., 2008), and is also proposed to be linked to rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) in New Zealand (Henning et al., 2005). It is one of the dominant flies on Lord Howe Island (Ferrar et al., 1975).

Taxonomy

This is the only species of this genus known from Australia. DNA barcode sequences of O. varia have been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.

References

Ferrar, P., Standfast, H.A,. and Dyce, L.A. (1975) A survey of blood-sucking and synanthropic Diptera and dung insects on Norfolk Island, South Pacific. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14, 7-13.


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 Biolog�a 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.