Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen
1826
Subgenus: Lioproctia
Enderlein 1928
Species: alcicornis Hardy 1932
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN � (Australia � New South Wales, Queensland).
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.
Taxonomy
DNA barcode sequences of S. alcicornis have
been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.
References
Lopes, H.d.S. (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.