Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen
1826
Subgenus: Hardyella Lopes
1959
Species: littoralis Johnston & Tiegs 1922
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN � (Australia � New South Wales, Queensland).
Biology
Sarcophaga littoralis has been collected at ocean beaches (Johnston and Tiegs, 1922) and documented to have emerged from the common purple snail, Janthina janthina (ANIC collections). This species has also been collected at decayed carrion-baits by KAM.
Taxonomy
This species belongs to the monotypic
subgenus Hardyella. DNA barcode sequences of S.
littoralis have been deposited in both GenBank and
BOLD.
References
Johnston,
T.H., and Tiegs, O.W. (1922) New and known Australian
sarcophagid flies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
Queensland 34, 181-190.