Sarcophaga Meigen, 1826

Gudin, Filipe Macedo, Pádua, Diego Galvão de, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo, Cortés-Rivas, Benito, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Araujo, Rodrigo de Oliveira, 2024, Revising Spider Egg-predating Fly Records (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): New Insights on Prey, Taxonomy, and Distribution of Sarcophaga (Mehria) lorosa Hall in Southern South America, Zoological Studies 63 (7), pp. 1-14 : 10

Unidentified Sarcophaga Meigen

From egg sacs of Argiope trifasciata (Forsskål)

Recorded by Armas and Alayón García (1986: 116, as unidentified Sarcophagula Wulp [misidentification]) as a parasitoid in egg sacs of A. trifasciata (Forsskål) in San Antonio de los Baños, La Habana, Cuba.

Remarks: Sarcophagula is a subgenus of Tricharaea Thomson including mostly saprophagous and coprophagous species ( Pape and Dahlem 2010; Patitucci et al. 2015). Therefore, the specimens recorded in egg sacs of A. trifasciata were misidentified and probably belong to Sarcophaga , subgenus Mehria .

Oriental Region