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Flesh Fly -
Family Sarcophagidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Flesh
Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Flies in family Sarcophagidae are from medium to large in size. There are many species in this family
and they look very similar. Larvae develop in carrion
or dung. The adult flies are usually black in colour with three grey longitudinal
stripes on thorax. Their head is relatively small with bright red eyes. They are very closely
related to Blowfly family but they are never in metallic
colour. They do not have long and strong bristles on body.
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- The Flesh Fly males are dichoptic or with semi-narrow frons, never truly
holoptic; females are dichoptic.
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- Females are viviparous, producing live
maggots directly onto their food source. They are either breed in rotting
vegetation, carrion, decomposing organic matter or parasites of other insects.
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- Flesh Flies in subfamily Sarcophaginae are easily recognized by the three
strong black stripes on thorax and the checker-board pattern on abdomen.
Larvae either breed in rotting
vegetation, carrion or decomposing organic matter.
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- Grey Flesh Fly
 - Sarcophaga aurifrons, body length 10mm
- This Flesh fly is grey in colour with three black stripes on the top of thorax. They
have large pair of red-orange eyes. They are commonly seen in Brisbane
backyards. Please check this page for more
pictures and information.
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- Yellow Flesh Fly
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- Sarcophaga bidentata ?, body length 10mm
- This Flesh fly is pale yellow in colour with three black stripes on the top of thorax. They
have large pair of orange eyes. They are also commonly seen in Brisbane bushes.
Please click on here for more information.
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- White-headed Flesh Fly
 - Sarcophaga australis ?, body length
8mm
- This Flash Fly is medium in size. It has a white head and long black legs.
Please check this page for more
information.
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- Small-palm Flash Fly
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- Sarcophaga sp., body length
8mm
- This fly is medium in size. It has the typical flash fly look. We recognized
this Flash Fly by the distinctive smaller pulvillus (palm) on its black legs.
Please check this page for more
information.
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Subfamily Miltogrammatinae
- In subfamily Miltogrammatinae larvae feed on food provisions of solitary bees and wasps.
Adults do not have the three dorsal stripes
on thorax nor the checker-board pattern on abdomen, and they may look and
behave like a Tachinid Fly.
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- Small Golden Flash Fly
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- ? sp. body length 5mm
- We noticed this small fly when we were waiting and watching what a Bembix
wasp was doing at the entrance of its nest. This small fly was also
watching the wasp. Their larvae are known to feed on food provisions of solitary bees and wasps. Please
check this page for more information.
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- Small Grey Flash Fly I
- ? Senotainia sp. body length 5mm
- We found this Small Grey Flesh Fly once. Please check this page for more
information.
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- Small Grey Flash Fly II
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- ? Amobia sp. body length 6mm
- On Dec 2012 in Anstead Forest, we saw this flesh fly following a Potter
Wasp. Please check this page for more
information.
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- Small Grey Flash Fly III
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- ? Aenigmetopia sp. body length 6mm
- Please check this page for more
information.
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- Small Grey Flash Fly IV
 - ? sp. body length 6mm
- Please check this page for more
information.
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- Unknown Flash Fly
 - ? sp. body length 6mm
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- Reference:
- 1. Sarcophaga aurifrons Macquart
- Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO, 2005.
- 2. On the Fly, The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families CD Rom - Hamilton, J. et al. 2006. Brisbane : CBIT &
ABRS.
- 3. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 4. Family SARCOPHAGIDAE - Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory.
- 5. The world of flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) -T. Pape, G. Dahlem, C.A. de Mello Patiu, & M.
Giroux.
- 6. Notes on the distribution of 31 species of Sarcophagidae (Diptera) in Australia, including new records in Australia for eight species - Meiklejohn, K.A., Dowton, M & Wallman, J. 2012. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 136(1): 56-64.
- 7. Sarcophagidae - Graeme's Insects of Townsville, Australia.
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