Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen
1826
Subgenus: Sarcorohdendorfia
Baranov 1938
Species: bifrons
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN
� (Australia � Australian Capital Territory, New South
Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia),
ORIENTAL.
Biology
Sarcophaga
birfons has been captured around decaying
meat (Johnston and Tiegs, 1922). The label on pinned
specimens in the ANIC reads: �bred crab� (Lopes, 1954).
Taxonomy
DNA barcode
sequences of S. bifrons 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.
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.
Walker, F. (1853) �Diptera�. Part IV.
In 'Insecta
Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the
collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq.' F.R.S., F.L.S.,
&c. Vol. 1. pp.
253-414: (Van Voorst, London).