Genus: Sarcophaga Meigen
1826
Subgenus: Sarcorohdendorfia
Baranov 1938
Species: seniorwhitei Ho 1938
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN
� (Australia � Northern Territory, Queensland, Western
Australia), ORIENTAL,
PALAEARTIC.
Biology
Sarcophaga seniorwhitei has been
collected in mixed deciduous forests (B�nziger and Pape,
2004) and from mountain ranges in Korea (Park, 1977). This
species has also been reared from fish, chicken and horse
flesh under laboratory conditions (P�rez-Moreno et al., 2006).
References
B�nziger, H., and Pape, T. (2004) Flowers, faeces and cadavers: natural feeding and laying habits of flesh flies in Thailand (Diptera: Sarcophagidae, Sarcophaga spp.). Journal of Natural History 38, 1677-1694.
Ho, C. (1938) On some species of Sarcophaga from
Java and its neighbouring islands. Annals of Tropical
Medicine and Parasitology 32, 115-127.
Park, S.-H. (1977) Studies on Flies in Korea
II - Taxonomic Studies on Sarcophagid Flies (Diptera). The Bulletin of
Tokyo Medical and Dental University 24,
249-284.