Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen
1826
Subgenus: Sarcorohdendorfia Baranov 1938
Species: meiofilosia Pape, McKillup & McKillup 2000
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN � (Australia � Queensland).
Biology
Sarcophaga
meiofilosia is a parasitoid of specimens of
the littoral snail Littoraria filosa, having shell
lengths 4 - <10mm (Pape et al., 2000;
McKillup et al.,
2000).
Taxonomy
DNA barcode
sequences of S. meiofilosia 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.