Sarcofahrtiopsis is a genus of small flesh flies. Most are known from the Antilles and Central America. Many species feed on semiterrestrial crabs of the genus Cardisoma[2] or are associated with bats.[3]

Sarcofahrtiopsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sarcophagidae
Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
Genus: Sarcofahrtiopsis
Hall 1933[1]
Type species
Sarcofahrtia capitata
Curran, 1928

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ Hall, Charles Howard (1933). "The Sarcophaginae of Panama (Diptera: Calliphoridae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 66. American Museum of Natural History: 251–285. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Pape, Thomas; Mendez, Julio (2004). "Two new species of Sarcofahrtiopsis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 485. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 1–7. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.485.1.1. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  3. ^ Da Silva Carvalho-Filho, Fernando; Cristina Esposito, Maria; De Azevedo Silva, Amanda (2014). "A further new species of Sarcofahrtiopsis Hall (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) associated with faeces of the disk-winged bat Thyroptera Spix: Chiroptera) in Brazil and the redescription of the female terminalia of S. cuneata (Townsend)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3889 (1). Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 118–126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3889.1.7. PMID 25544136. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  4. ^ a b Dodge, Harold Rodney (1965). "The Sarcophagidae (Diptera) of the West Indies. II. Jamaica". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 58 (4). Entomological Society of America: 497–517. doi:10.1093/aesa/58.4.497.
  5. ^ Thomas, Pape; Mendez, Julio (2002). "A new species of Sarcofahrtiopsis (Hall, 1933) from Panama (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)". Annales Zoologici. 52: 339–342.
  6. ^ Mendez, Julio; Mello-Patiu, C. A.; Pape, Thomas (2008). "New flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from coastal mangroves of Panama with taxonomic notes and keys". Journal of Natural History. 42 (3–4): 249–257. doi:10.1080/00222930701850216. ISSN 0022-2933. S2CID 86017342. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  7. ^ de Mello-Patiu, C. A.; Pape, T. (2000). "Definitions of Dexosarcophaga Townsend 1917 and Sarcofahrtiopsis Hall 1933, including two new species and a redescription of Sarcofahrtiopsis cuneata (Townsend 1935) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)". Boletín de Entomología Venezolana. 15 (2): 181–194. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  8. ^ Thomas, Pape; Dechmann, Dina; Vonhof, Maarten J. (2002). "A new species of Sarcofahrtiopsis Hall (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) living in roosts of Spix's disk-winged bat Thyroptera tricolor Spix (Chiroptera) in Costa Rica". Journal of Natural History. 36 (8): 991–998. doi:10.1080/00222930110062291. S2CID 85226696.