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Sarcophaga carnaria (Linnaeus, 1758) (a flesh fly)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Sarcophaga carnaria Female imago 6 June 1998 Berks England 3
Sarcophaga carnaria Male imago 6 June 1998 Berks England 3

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Zumpt, F. & Heinz, H.J., 1949 Studies in the sexual armature of Diptera - II A contribution to the study of the morphology and homology of the male terminalia of Calliphora and Sarcophaga (Dipt., Calliphoridae)

Sarcophaga carnaria may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CALYPTRATA
(calypterate flies)
SARCOPHAGIDAE
(flesh flies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Sarcophaga carnaria is associated with:

Photos larva Chordata - vertebrates larva feeds on dead Minor van Emden, F.I., 1954
Photos larva Chordata - vertebrates larva endoparasitises gut van Emden, F.I., 1954
larva Homo sapiens - Man (Primates: Hominidae) larva endoparasitises gut Minor van Emden, F.I., 1954

There may be more taxa associated with Sarcophaga carnaria listed at higher taxonomic level

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)

Associated with Sarcophaga carnaria:

Sarcophaga carnaria may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
SARCOPHAGIDAE
(flesh flies)
Sarcophaga
(a genus of flesh flies)

References

van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae

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