Sarcophaga (Liopygia) crassipalpis Macquart

Dowton, Mark & Pape, Thomas, 2013, A key to the Australian Sarcophagidae (Diptera) with special emphasis on Sarcophaga (sensu lato), Zootaxa 3680 (1), pp. 148-189 : 159-160

Sarcophaga (Liopygia) crassipalpis Macquart

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Sarcophaga crassipalpis Macquart, 1839

Morphological characters. Ground colour of male and female terminalia bright red or orange. Gena with setulae only or mostly yellow/white. Occiput with setulae only yellow/white. Prescutellar acrostichal setae present but apical scutellar setae absent. Proepisternum bare and males with long setulae on the hind tibia. 1st and 2nd abdominal sternites with short setulae in females. Body length 10–15 mm.

Geographical distribution. Australia (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia)—AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN, AFROTROPICAL, NEARCTIC, NEOTROPICAL, ORIENTAL, PALAEARCTIC.

Biology. Sarcophaga crassipalpis has been successfully reared from pork liver ( Sanjean 1956), and is known to complete larval development in vertebrate and invertebrate carcasses ( Pérez-Moreno et al. 2006). This species is known to cause myiasis in sheep and the spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx hardwicki , and oral, intestinal and cutaneous myiasis and ophthalmomyiasis in humans ( Lukin 1989; Martínez-Sánchez et al. 2006; Shiota et al. 1990). Adults feed on faeces, carrion, excreta of leaf-sucking hemipterans and from flowers ( Castro et al. 2010). This species has also been recorded by JFW in forensic cases in Australia.

Taxonomy. The first-and second-instar larvae were described by Cantrell (1981) and the third instar by Ishijima (1967) and Cantrell (1981). DNA barcode sequences of S. crassipalpis have been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.