Subfamily:
Sarcophaginae
Genus: Tricharaea
Thomson 1869
Subgenus: Tricharaea
Thomson 1869
Species: brevicornis Wiedemann
1830 (Tachina)
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN
� (Australia � Australian Capital Territory, New South
Wales, Tasmania, Victoria), NEOTROPICAL.
Biology
Tricharaea brevicornis is
primarily found in open pastures, open woodlands and
along beaches (Ferrar, 1979). This species is
the only Australian representative of the genus Tricharaea,
and has been
collected at decayed-carrion baits by KAM but is also
known to be attracted to cow dung (Ferrar, 1979).
Taxonomy
This species is the only Australian
representative of the genus Tricharaea. The eggs and
larval instars were described by Ferrar (1979). DNA barcode
sequences of T. brevicornis have been
deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.
References
Ferrar,
P. (1979) The immature stages of dung-breeding Muscoid
flies in Australia, with notes on the species, and key
to the larvae and puparia. Australian Journal of
Zoology Supplementary Series 73, 1-106.
Wiedemann,
C.R.W. (1830) 'Aussereuropische zweiflgelige Insekten. Als
Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werkes.' Vol. 2. p. 64
(Schulz, Hamm).