Global InformationSarcofahrtiopsis information
| Sarcofahrtiopsis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Sarcophagidae |
| Subfamily: | Sarcophaginae |
| Genus: | Sarcofahrtiopsis Hall 1933[1] |
| Type species | |
| Sarcofahrtia capitata Curran, 1928
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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[2] or are associated with bats.[3]
- ^ Hall, Charles Howard (1933). "The Sarcophaginae of Panama (Diptera: Calliphoridae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 66. American Museum of Natural History: 251–285. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ Pape, Thomas; Mendez, Julio (2004). "Two new species of Sarcofahrtiopsis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 485. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 1–7. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.485.1.1. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ Da Silva Carvalho-Filho, Fernando; Cristina Esposito, Maria; De Azevedo Silva, Amanda (2014). "A further new species of Sarcofahrtiopsis Hall (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) associated with faeces of the disk-winged bat Thyroptera Spix: Chiroptera) in Brazil and the redescription of the female terminalia of S. cuneata (Townsend)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3889 (1). Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 118–126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3889.1.7. PMID 25544136. Retrieved 23 January 2015.