Sarcophaga Meigen, 1826

Wang, Chao, Gao, Yunyun, Pape, Thomas & Zhang, Dong, 2019, Redefinition of Cornexcisia Fan & Kano, 2000 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with the first description of the female of Sarcophaga kurahashii (Shinonaga & Tumrasvin, 1979), Zootaxa 4668 (3), pp. 410-420 : 412

Genus Sarcophaga Meigen

Sarcophaga Meigen, 1826: 14 . Type species: Musca carnaria Linnaeus, 1758 , by designation of Partington (1837: 607).

Cornexcisia Fan & Kano, 2000: 251 . Type species: Cornexcisia longicornuta Fan & Kano, 2000 , by original designation. Syn. nov.

Fanzideia Xue, Verves & Du, 2011: 311 . Type species: Fanzideia cygnocerca Xue, Verves & Du, 2011 , by original designation. Syn. nov.

[For other synonyms, see Pape (1996).]

Diagnosis. With all synapomorphies generally associated with the Sarcophaginae ( Pape 1996) , plus: male hind trochanter with medioproximal pad of short setae on posterior surface; postgonite with a strong seta distal to middle; paraphallus with a window; harpes elbowed in proximal part and with an apical process; median style of acrophallus absent; capitis present as a pair of recurving, parallel structures.

Remarks. We follow Roback (1954), Downes (1965), Pape (1996), Pape & Dahlem (2010), Richet et al. (2011), Whitmore et al. (2013), Buenaventura et al. (2017) and Buenaventura & Pape (2018) in a broad definition of the genus Sarcophaga . The diagnostic features given above are the generic autapomorphies resulting from the phylogenetic analysis of Buenaventura & Pape (2018). The autapomorphic configuration of the acrophallus was discussed by Whitmore et al. (2013) and Buenaventura & Pape (2015, 2018). Synonymizing Cornexcisia under Sarcophaga —when the type species of the former is known from the female sex only and the definition of the latter is based on male-specific features—is considered justified because the Old World Sarcophaginae appear to stem from dispersal events from the New World and subsequent diversification into the only three native Old World genera: Blaesoxipha Loew , Ravinia Robineau-Desvoidy and Sarcophaga ( Pape 1996; Buenaventura & Pape 2018). The original description of Cornexcisia longicornuta ( Fan & Kano 2000: 251) fits the general appearance of a female Sarcophaga , while it does not fit any of the sarcophagine genera endemic to the New World ( Pape & Dahlem 2010), nor does the species possess any of the female features considered autapomorphic for Blaesoxipha and Ravinia ( Pape 1996; Buenaventura & Pape 2018).