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Sarcophaga (Liopygia) crassipalpis

Lateral view

Australian distribution

Male genitalia (phallus), lateral view

Male genitalia (cercus, surstylus), lateral view

Male genitalia (entire), lateral view
Subfamily: Sarcophaginae


Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen 1826


Subgenus: Liopygia Enderlein 1928


Species: crassipalpis Macquart 1839

Distribution

AFROTROPICAL, AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN � (Australia � Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia), NEARCTIC, NEOTROPICAL, ORIENTAL, PALAEARCTIC.

Biology

Sarcophaga crassipalpis has successfully been reared from pork liver (Sanjean, 1957), and is known to complete larval development in vertebrate and invertebrate carcasses (P�rez-Moreno et al., 2006). This species is known to cause myiasis in sheep and the spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx hardwicki, and oral, intestinal and cutaneous myiasis and ophthalmomyiasis in humans (Shiota et al., 1990; Shinonaga et al., 1999; Mart�nez-S�nchez et al. 2006). Adults feed on faeces, carrion, leaf-sucking hemipterans and from flowers (Castro et al. 2010). This species has also been recorded by JFW in forensic cases in Australia.

Taxonomy

 The first- and second-instar larvae were described by Cantrell (1981) and the third-instar by Cantrell (1981) and Ishijima (1967). DNA barcode sequences of S. crassipalpis have been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.

References

Cantrell, B.K. (1981) The immature stages of some Australian Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 20, 237-248.

 

Castro, C.B., Garcia, M.D., Arnaldos, M.I., and Gonz�lez-Mora, D. (2010) Sarcophagidae (Diptera) attracted to piglet carcasses including new records for Portuguese fauna. Graellsia 66, 285-294.

Ishijima, H. (1967) Revision of the third stage larvae of synanthropic flies of Japan (Diptera: Anthomyiidae, Muscidae, Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae). Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology 18, 47-200.

Macquart, J. (1839) 'Dipt�res.'In 'Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries'. Tome Deuxi�me. Deuxi�me partie. Contenant la Zoologie [Entomologie]. (Eds. Webb, P.B. and Berthelot, S.)pp. 99-119. (B�thune, Paris).

Mart�nez-S�nchez, A., Maga�a, C., P�rez-Ba��n, C., Rojo, S., and Gonz�lez-Mora, D. Taxonomy and larval study of flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) associated with human corpses in Spain. In 'Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of European Association for Forensic Entomology', 2006, Bari.

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.

Sanjean, J. (1957) Taxonomic studies of Sarcophaga larvae of New York with notes on the adults. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memoir 349, 1-115.

 

Shinonaga, S., and Kurahashi, H. (1969) New species of Sarcosolomonia Baranov from New Guinea and the Solomons (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Pacific Insects 11, 215-217.

 

Shiota, T., Yoshida, Y., Hirai, S., and Torii, S. (1990) Intestinal myiasis caused by Parasarcophaga crassipalpis (Dipera: Sarcophagidae). Pediatrics 85, 215-217.