Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen 1826
Subgenus: Boettcherisca Rohdendorf 1937
Species: peregrina
Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 (Myophora)
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN
� (Australia � Australian Capital Territory, Lord Howe
Island, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland,
South Australia, Western Australia), ORIENTAL,
PALAEARCTIC.
Biology
Sarcophaga peregrina has been observed to breed in carrion, and has
been commonly found attracted to faeces, garbage and fish
baits (Das and Dasgupta,
1982; B�nziger and Pape 2004; P�rez-Moreno
et al., 2006). This species
has also been documented in cases of human oral and nasal
myiasis (Kanimura
and Arakawa, 1986). Studies have documented S. peregrina
as an occasional parasite of earthworms and the
locust Chortoicetes terminifera, along with
being a facultative predator of lepidopteran pupae (Xue et
al., 2011).
Taxonomy
This species is
the only Australian representative of the subgenus Boettcherisca.
The larval instars and puparium were described by Cantrell
(1981; referred to as Boettcherisca peregrina).
DNA barcode sequences of S.
peregrina have been deposited in both GenBank
and BOLD.
References
B�nziger,
H., and Pape, T. (2004) Flowers, faeces and
cadavers: natural feeding and laying habits of flesh
flies in Thailand (Diptera: Sarcophagidae, Sarcophaga spp.).
Journal of
Natural History 38,
1677-1694.
Cantrell, B.K. (1981) The immature stages
of some Australian Sarcophaginae (Diptera:
Sarcophagidae). Journal of the Australian
Entomological Society 20, 237-248.
Das,
S.K., and Dasgupta, B. (1982) Seasonal occurance of
blow-flies and flesh-flies in Calcutta Oriental
Insects 16(1), 119-128.
Kanimura,
K., and Arakawa, R. (1986) A case report on nasal
myiasis due to the flesh fly Boettcherisca
peregrina. Japanese Journal of Sanitary
Zoology 37(2), 163-164.
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.
Robinaeu-Desvoidy, J.B. Essai sur les
myodaires. M�moires Pr�sent�s par divers Savants
� l�Acad�mie. Royal des Sciences l�Institut de
France 2, 1�813.
Xue,
W.-Q., Verves, Y.G., and Du, J. (2011) A review of
subtribe Boettcheriscina Verves 1990
(Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with descriptions of a
new species and genus from China. Annales de
la Soci�t� Entomologique de France 47(3-4),
303-329.