Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sarcophagidae
Posted by Clive Lau on 24-09-2010 00:21
#1
Picture taken yesterday in Hong Kong. Not sure if this is a kind of
Sarcophaga sp.?
Edited by Clive Lau on 24-09-2010 06:56
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 24-09-2010 06:19
#2
This is a flesh fly (Sarcophagidae).
Posted by Clive Lau on 24-09-2010 06:57
#3
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
This is a flesh fly (Sarcophagidae).
Thanks Stephane. The title and the message have been amended.
Posted by Thomas Pape on 24-09-2010 08:54
#4
This is indeed a flesh fly, and it is a female of the large genus Sarcophaga (sensu lato). It is not possible to identify the species, but it would seem that it belongs to one of the subgenera showing four postsutural acrostichal bristles. Common species in Hong Kong would in particular be S. albiceps and S. peregrina.