Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen
1826
Subgenus: Sarcorohdendorfia
Baranov 1938
Species: omikron Johnston & Tiegs 1921
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN � (Australia � Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia).
Biology
Sarcophaga
omikron was bred from wool and rotten potatoes
(Johnston and Tiegs, 1921) but also collected at
decayed-carrion baits by KAM.
Taxonomy
DNA barcode sequences of S.
omikron have been deposited in both GenBank and
BOLD.
References
Johnston, T.H., and Tiegs, O.W. (1921) New and little-known sarcophagid flies from south-eastern Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 33, 46-90.