A New Species and New Records of the GenusSarcophagafrom Egypt, with a Key to the Known Egyptian Species (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Identification of Medically-Important Dipteran Species in Nuweiba City, South Sinai, Egypt, and Their Relative Abundance

“…Specimens were identified using the valid taxonomic keys and detailed species descripttion [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and names were updated [31] . Images were captured using a Nikon 7100d camera (Minato city, Tokyo, Japan) and microscopic samples were photographed using an S-EYE YW500 camera and Nokia 6 phone camera fixed on a BOECO BM-120 microscope (Hamburg, Germany).…”

Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Chinese species of Sarcophaga Meigen, 1824 (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

“…Furthermore, the diagnostic differences in the shape of the juxtal arms and harpes outlined in the key by Rohdendorf (1937 : 440) were assessed based on Salem’s illustrations. Gregor and Povolný (1960) synonymized the two nominal species, which was accepted by Rohdendorf (1970) , and these taxa have since been considered either as separate species, e.g., by Lehrer (1995) , Pape (1996) , El-Ahmady et al (2018) , and Verves and Khrokalo (2020) , or as synonyms, e.g., by Xue and Chao (1998) , Nandi (2002) , Povolný and Hula (2004) , and Richet et al (2011) . The recent conspectus of Egyptian species of Sarcophaga (s.l.)…”

“…The recent conspectus of Egyptian species of Sarcophaga (s.l.) by El-Ahmady et al (2018) separated aegyptica and parkeri by vesica with two short processes apically and narrow harpes ( aegyptica ) versus vesica with three short processes apically and broad harpes ( parkeri ). The material at our disposal was not sufficient for a thorough assessment of the relevant morphological characters, but we have the impression that both the vesica and the harpes are variable structures, which furthermore present themselves very differently depending on the type of preparation and condition of the specimen.…”

A new species of Sarcophaga Meigen (Helicophagella Enderlein) from southern Spain (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

“…The genus Sarcophaga Meigen, in the wide circumscription of Pape (1996), Whitmore et al (2013), and Buenaventura & Pape (2017), which largely equals the tribe Sarcophagini of Verves (1989a, 1989b, 1990), contains some 900 species worldwide. Morphological separation of the species is to a large extent based on the male terminalia, and species complexes appear to exist where the sibling species are differentiated exclusively by the shape of the often highly elaborate distiphallic appendages (e.g., Blackith et al 2001, 2004; Zhang et al 2013; El-Ahmady et al 2018). Morphology may provide substantial arguments for phylogenetic resolution (e.g., Zhang et al 2013; Wang et al 2019), but molecular data are needed for more robust phylogenies as a means of reaching a stable classification (e.g., Buenaventura & Pape 2017).…”