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Flesh flies
Sarcophaga bercaea
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Section: Schizophora
Subsection: Calyptratae
Superfamily: Oestroidea
Family: Sarcophagidae
Macquart,1834
Subfamilies

Sarcophagidae(fromAncient Greekσάρξsárx'flesh' andφαγεῖνphageîn'to eat')[1]are afamilyoffliescommonly known asflesh flies.They differ from most flies in that they areovoviviparous,opportunistically depositing hatched or hatchingmaggotsinstead of eggs oncarrion,dung, decaying material, or open wounds of mammals, hence their common name. Some flesh fly larvae are internalparasitesof other insects such asOrthoptera,and some, in particular theMiltogramminae,arekleptoparasitesof solitaryHymenoptera.[2]The adults mostly feed on fluids from animal bodies, nectar, sweet foods, fluids from animal waste and other organic substances. Juveniles need protein to develop and may be laid on carrion, dung or sweet plant foods (including fruit, nuts, and artificial foodstuffs).

Diagnostic characteristics

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Wing venation of Sarcophagidae
Sarcophaga nodosafeeding on decaying flesh
Sarcophagid showing basally plumose arista

Members of the subfamily Sarcophaginae are small to large flies 0.16–0.9 inches (4.1–22.9 mm) with black and gray longitudinal stripes on thethoraxand checkering on theabdomen.Other key features include red eyes and a bristled abdomen. Abdominal sternites II and III are free and cover the margins of tergites. The posthumeral bristles are one or two in number, with the outermost pair missing.

The presutural bristle is located lower than the notopleural bristle, and closer to the notopleural bristle than to the outermost posthumeral bristle. The presutural bristle is located higher than or level with the posthumeral bristle. The hindmost posthumeral bristle is located even with or toward the midline from the presutural bristle. Four notopleural bristles are present and arranged in the order - short, long, short, long - from front to rear.

Vein M1 +2 (anterior transverse vein, medial vein 1+2 ) is always present, and the cubitulus is strongly bent at right angles or acute; vein Rs is dibranched.

The eyes are smooth and very rarely hairy.

The arista is plumose in its basal half, or rarely pubescent or glabrous.

Taxonomy

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The family contains threesubfamilies,theMiltogramminae,theParamacronychiinae,and theSarcophaginae,containing between them 108genera.About 2500 species are in this family.

Biology

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Craticulinais a genus of Miltogramminae. This species is a kleptoparasite ofPhilanthus.The arista is basally pubescent.

Sarcophaginae: The majority of species in the large genusSarcophagaarescavengersof small carrion, such as dead insects and snails or smaller vertebrates. A few species feed on larger vertebrate carcasses. Flesh fly maggots occasionally eat other larvae, although this is usually because the other larvae are smaller and get in the way. Flesh flies and their larvae are also known to eat decaying vegetable matter andexcrement,and they may be found aroundcompostpiles and pitlatrines.[3]

Miltogramminae: Members of this subfamily arekleptoparasitesofsolitary beesandsolitary wasps.[4]

Paramacronychiinae: This subfamily includes lepidopteran predators or parasitoids (Agria), predators on immatures (mainly prepupae) of bumblebees (Brachicoma) and generalist scavengers and insect predators (SarcophilaandWohlfahrtia).[5]

Association with disease

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Flesh flies can carryleprosybacilli and can transmitintestinal pseudomyiasisto people who eat their larvae. Flesh flies, particularlyWohlfahrtia magnifica,can also causemyiasisin animals, mostly to sheep, and can give themblood poisoning,or asymptomatic leprosy infections.

Identification

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Generally, only males of this family can reliably be identified to species, and then only by examination of dissected genitalia. The literature is incomplete or scattered for all regions. References include:

  • Rokuro Kano; Gordon Field; Satoshi ShinonagaFauna Japonica: Sarcophagidae (Insecta: Diptera)Biogeographical Society of Japan; distributor: Tokyo Electrical Engineering College Press, 1967.In English.
  • Downes, W. L., Jr.Family Sarcophagidaein Stone, A. et al.A catalog of the Diptera of America north of MexicoUnited States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 1965.
  • Lehrer, A.Z..Sarcophaginae et Paramacronychiinae du Proche Orient (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Pensoft Series Faunistica 60, ISSN 1312-0174.ISBN954-642-281-9,Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 165x240, keys, species descriptions, b/w drawings and photos, references, index. In French.(2006).
  • Lehrer, A.Z.,Sarcophaginae de l'Afrique (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae)In: Entomologica, Bari, 37(2003):5-528 (in French)
  • Lehrer, A.Z.,Taxonomic Atlas of the postabdominal structures Sarcophagidae (Insecta, Diptera). Vol. 1In: Entomologica, Bari, 42 (2010):3-459.
  • Pape, T.The Sarcophagidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark.Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica,19. Hardback 203 pp., 2 col. plates, 424 figures, in English, 1987.ISBN90-04-08184-4
  • Pape, T. 1998. Sarcophagidae. - pp. 649–678 in: Papp, L. & Darvas, B. (eds), Contributions to a manual of Palaearctic/European Diptera. Science Herald; Budapest.
  • Pape, T. 1996. Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the world (Insecta: Diptera).Memoirs of Entomology International8: 1–558.
  • Rohdendorf, B. B.Family Sarcophagidaein Bei-Bienko, G. Ya.Keys to the Insects of the European part of the USSRFauna SSR (NS) 12: xv, 1–496. [In Russian; English translation 1988, pp. 1021–1096; Washington, D.C.]
  • Rohdendorf, B. B., 1930-1975Sarcophaginae,in Lindner, E.Fliegen die Palaearktischen Region.11 64h, 1–232;1985, 64h.Sarcophaginae(Lieferung 330) 1–297;1993 64h.Sarcophaginae(Lieferung 331) 1–441, 90 Abbildungen (figures).
  • Venturi, F., 1960. Sistematica e geonemia dei Sarcofagidi (escl. Sarcophaga s.l.) italiani (Diptera).Frustula Entomologica,2 (7): 1–124.
  • Verves, Yu.G., 1986.Family Sarcophagidae.In: Soós Á. & Papp L. (eds.),Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera,12. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest - Elsevier, Amsterdam: 58-193

Catalogues

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  • Pape, T. 1996. Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the world (Insecta: Diptera).Memoirs of Entomology International8: 1–558.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., 2000, Le système taxonomique des Sarcophaginae afrotropicales (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Entomologica, Bari, 34:41-63.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., 2003, Sarcophaginae de l'Afrique (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Entomologica, Bari, 37:5-528.

Principal bibliographic sources

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  • Baranov, N. (1941), Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Sarcophaga (s.l.). Vet. Arh., 11:361-404 [In Croatian and German].
  • Becker, T. (1908), Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin, 4:1-180.
  • Böttcher, G. (1912), Die männlichen Begattungswerkzeuge der Arten bei dem Genus Sarcophaga Meigen. und ihre Bedeutung für die Abgrenzung der Arten. Dtsch. ent. Z., 525–544, 705–736.
  • Bôttcher, G. (1913), Die männlichen Begattungswerkzeuge der Arten bei dem Genus Sarcophaga Meigen. und ihre Bedeutung für die Abgrenzung der Arten. Dtsch. ent. Z., 1-16, 115–130, 239–254, 351–377.
  • Brauer, F. & Bergenstamm, J.E., (1889), Die Zweiflügler des Keiserlichen zu Wien. IV. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae). Pars I. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 56:69-180.
  • Brauer, F. & Bergenstamm, J.E., (1891), Die Zweiflügler des Keiserlichen zu Wien. V. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae). Pars II. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 58:39-446.
  • Enderlein, G. (1928a), Klassification der Sarcophagiden. Sarcophagiden-Studien I. Arch. klassifik. phylogeny. Ent., 1:1-56.
  • Enderlein, G. (1928b), Sarcophgiden-Studien II. Konowia, 7:147-153.
  • Enderlein, G. (1936), 22. Ordnung: Zweiflügler, Diptera. Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. Vol. 6, Insekten, Teil III, Abt. 16:1-259.
  • Fan, Zi-De (1965), Key to the common synanthropic flies of China. Academy of Sciences, Peking, XV + 1–330.
  • Fan Zi-De (ed.), 1992, Key to the common flies of China. Second Edition. Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Academia Sinica. 992p + 40 pl.
  • Kano, R., Flield, G. & Shinonaga, S. (1967), Sarcophagidae (Insecta: Diptera). Fauna Japonica 7:1-168 + 41 pls.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., (1974), Diptères myiasigènes de la superfamille Sarcophagidea de Roumanie. Acta Rer. Nat. Mus. Nat. Slov., Bratislava, 20:125-159.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., (2000a). Le système taxonomique des Sarcophaginae afrotropicales (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Entomologica, Bari, 34:41-63.
  • Lehrer, A.Z. (2000b), La structure de l’abdomen des Sarcophaginae (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Entomologica, Bari, 34:153-169.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., (2003a), Revision du genre Wohlfahrtia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 de la faune d’Israël (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Entomol. Croat., 7, nr. 1-2: 15–33.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., (2003b), Sarcophaginae de l’Afrique (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Entomologica, Bari, 37:5-528.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., (2005), Nouveaux Sarcophagides afrotropicaux et orientaux (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Entomologica, Bari, 39,:5-59.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., 2006, Sarcophaginae et Paramacronychiinae du Proche Orient (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Pensoft, 1–263.
  • Lehrer, A.Z., 2008, Le statut taxonomique des espèces "Musca carnariaLinnaeus, 1758 "etSarcophaga carnariaBottcher, 1912 (Diptera, (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Fragmenta Dipterologica, 13:15-17[1].
  • Lehrer, A.Z., 2010, Taxonomic Atlas of the postabdominal structures. SARCOPHAGIDAE (Insecta, Diptera), vol. 1, Entomologica, Bari, 42: 3–459, 418 figs.
  • Lehrer, A. Z. & Fromunda V., 1986, Le développement larvaire du diptèremyiasigène Wohlfahrtia magnifica (Schiner) (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Bull. Ann. Soc. r. bege Ent., 122:129-136
  • Lehrer A., Lehrer M. & Verstraeten C., 1988, Les myiases causées aux moutons de Roumanie par Wohlfahrtia magnifica (Schiner) (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Ann. Méd. Vét., 132:475-481.
  • Lehrer, A. Z. & Luciano P., 1980, Sarcophagides (Diptera) parasites dePorthetria dispar(L.) en Sardaigne et leur cartographie dans le reseau U.T.M. Studi Sassaresi, Sez. III, Ann. Fac. Agraria Univ. Sassari, 27:161- 173.
  • Lehrer, A. Z. & Verstraeten C., 1991, Expansion parasitologique et géographique de Wohlfahrtia magnifica (Schiner) (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) en Roumanie. Bull. Rech. Agron. Gembloux, 26(4):563-567.
  • Leonide, J. & Leonide J.-C. (1986), Les diptères sarcophagidés des orthoptères français – essai biotaxonomie. Université de Provence (Aix-en-Provence), 1–301.
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  • Mihàlyi, F., (1979b), Fémeslefgyek - Húslegyek. Calliphoridae – Sarcophagidae. Fauna Hung., 135:1-152.
  • Pape, T. (1987), The Sarcophagidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna ent. scand., 19:1-203.
  • Pape, T., 1996, Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the World (Insecta:Diptera). Mem. on Entomology, Intern., vol. 8, 558 p.
  • Povolny D. & Verves, YU.G. (1997), The flesh-flies of Central Europa (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Spixiana. Supplement, München, 24:1-260.
  • Rohdendorf, B.B. (1937), Fam. Sarcophagidae. (P. 1). Faune de l'URSS, 19:1-501 [In Russian with German summary].
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  • Verves, YU. G. (1985), 64h. Sarcophaginae. Die Fliegen der plaearktischen Region, Stuttgart, Bd. 11, Lf. 330:297-440.
  • Zumpt, F. (1972), Calliphoridae (Diptera Cyclorhapha). Part IV. Sarcophaginae. Explor. Parc nat. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933-1935), 101:1-264.

See also

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Species lists

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References

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  1. ^Alcock, A. (1911).Entomology for Medical Officers.London: Gurney & Jackson.
  2. ^Richards, O. W.; Davies, R.G. (1977).Imms' General Textbook of Entomology: Volume 1: Structure, Physiology and Development Volume 2: Classification and Biology.Berlin: Springer.ISBN0-412-61390-5.
  3. ^"Thomas Pape".
  4. ^"Thomas Pape".
  5. ^"Thomas Pape".Archived fromthe originalon 2019-12-27.Retrieved2012-04-05.

Pape, T., Dahlem, G., Mello Patiu, C.A. de & Giroux, M. 25 June 2010. The World of Flesh Flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae).[2]Archived2019-08-02 at theWayback MachineAccessed on [4 April 2012].

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