Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen
1826
Subgenus: Sarcorohdendorfia
Baranov 1938
Species: megafilosia Pape, McKillup & McKillup 2000
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN � (Australia � Queensland).
Biology
Sarcophaga megafilosia is a parasitoid of specimens of the littoral snail Littoraria filosa, having shell lengths = 10mm (Pape et al., 2000; McKillup et al., 2000).
Taxonomy
DNA barcode sequences of S.
megafilosia have been deposited in both GenBank and
BOLD.
References
McKillup, S.C., McKillup, R.V., and Pape, T.
(2000) Flies that are parasitoids of a marine snail: the
larviposition behaviour and life cycles of Sarcophaga
megafilosia and Sarcophaga meiofilosia. Hydrobiologia
439, 141-149.
Pape,
T., McKillup, S.C., and McKillup, R.V. (2000) Two new
species of Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) Baranov
(Diptera: Sarcophagidae), parasitoids of Littoraria filosa
(Sowerby) (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Australian
Journal of Entomology 39, 236-240.