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Sarcofahrtiopsis

Carvalho-Filho, Fernando da Silva;Souza, Caroline Costa de;Soares, Jéssica Maria Menezes

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Sarcofahrtiopsis

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Sarcofahrtiopsis is a genus of small flesh flies. Most are known from the Antilles and Central America. Many species feed on semiterrestrial crabs of the genus Cardisoma or are associated with bats.

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It is catalogued under topics including Oestroidea genera and Sarcophagidae.

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Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderDiptera
  5. FamilySarcophagidae

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Specimen records
9
Family
Sarcophagidae
Collections
USNM, NHMUK
Recorded in
Costa Rica

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Parent taxon
Sarcophagidae
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Encyclopedic overview

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Sarcofahrtiopsis is a genus of small flesh flies. Most are known from the Antilles and Central America. Many species feed on semiterrestrial crabs of the genus Cardisoma or are associated with bats.

==Species== S. baumhoveri Dodge, 1965 S. capitata Curran, 1928 S. carcini Pape & Mendez, 2002 S. chiriqui Pape & Mendez, 2004 S. cuneata (Townsend, 1935) S. kuna Pape & Mendez, 2004 S. paterna Dodge, 1965 S. piscosa Mendez, Mello-Patiu & Pape, 2008 S. spathor Mello-Patiu & Pape, 2000 S. thyropteronthos Pape, Pechmann & Vonhof, 2002

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