Sarcophaga (Liopygia) crassipalpis Macquart, 1839

(Figs. 19, 21)

Sarcophaga crassipalpis Macquart, 1839: 112 .

Sarcophaga dalmatina Schiner, 1862: 571 .

Sarcophaga securifera Villeneuve, 1908: 123 .

Parasarcophaga crassipalpis forma slovenica Č epelák, 1956: 682. Sarcophaga nodosoides Zumpt, 1961: 2 .

Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropical – Argentina (Buenos Aires), Chile, Uruguay – Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian/Oceanian.

Material studied: Buenos Aires: 1 ɗ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, 1.IV.1960 (ANLIS); 2 Ψ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, I.1997 (ANLIS); 1 ɗ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, 4.X.2004 on Condalia spp. (FAUBA); 1 ɗ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, II.1998 emerged, Oliva leg. (MACN); 1 Ψ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, II.1996 emerged, Oliva leg. (MACN); 4 Ψ Mercedes, Mercedes, I.2004 (ANLIS); 2 Ψ Olivos, Vicente Lopez, IX.1951 (ANLIS); 1 Ψ Villa Elisa, La Plata, II.1976, Mariluis leg. (ANLIS); 3 ΨSarandí, Avellaneda II.1997, Mariluis leg. (ANLIS); 2 ɗ, 3 Ψ Bahia Blanca, Bahia Blanca, II.2002, De Arriba leg. (ANLIS); 7 ɗ, 10 Ψ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, III.1987 myiasis in dog, Mariluis leg. (ANLIS); 25 ɗ, 25 Ψ Ciud. Aut. Buenos Aires, III.1987 reared from meat, Mariluis leg. (ANLIS).

Remarks: Good illustrations of male terminalia can be found in Blanchard (1942a). The female terminalia were adequately illustrated by Shewell (1987).

Biology: Sarcophaga (L.) crassipalpis is necrophagous on dead vertebrates and insects (Oliva 1997; Romera et al. 2003). In the present work, it was reared from rotten meat. This species has been cited as producing traumatic and cutaneous myiasis in domestic animals and man (James 1947; Zumpt 1965; Lukin 1989; Sherman 2000; Uni et al. 2005). It has been recorded in human cases of intestinal myiasis caused by ingestion of larvae present in contaminated food (Nagakura et al. 1984; Shiota et al. 1990), and in cases of ophthalmomyiasis (Uni et al. 1999) and aural myiasis (Morris 1987). In Argentina, Oliva (1997) reported S. (L.) crassipalpis as a forensic indicator. Flower visitor of Rhamnaceae ( Condalia spp.).