Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) seniorwhitei Ho

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 : 168

Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) seniorwhitei Ho

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Sarcophaga seniorwhitei Ho, 1938

Sarcophaga flavinervis Senior-White, 1924

Morphological characters. Gena with setulae mostly yellow/white. Occiput with at least one row of black setulae behind the ocular setae, with setulae only yellow/white ventrally. Prescutellar acrostichal setae present. Proepisternum uniformly setulose, with setulae only black. Males with long setulae on the hind tibia. In males, median patch of dense setae present at the base of the 4th abdominal sternite. Body length 10–15 mm.

Geographical distribution. Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)— AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN, ORIENTAL, PALAEARTIC.

Biology. Sarcophaga seniorwhitei has been collected in mixed deciduous forests ( Bänziger & Pape 2004) and from mountain ranges in Korea ( Park 1977). This species has also been reared from fish, chicken and horse meat under laboratory conditions ( Pérez-Moreno et al. 2006).