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Species Synthesiomyia nudiseta

Medium-sized, stocky grey & blackish Calyptrate Fly w 4 long thorax-stripes, and reddish eyes, antennae, & butt. - Synthesiomyia nudiseta Medium-sized, stocky grey & blackish Calyptrate Fly w 4 long thorax-stripes, and reddish eyes, antennae, & butt. - Synthesiomyia nudiseta Medium-sized, stocky grey & blackish Calyptrate Fly w 4 long thorax-stripes, and reddish eyes, antennae, & butt. - Synthesiomyia nudiseta fly - Synthesiomyia nudiseta tachinidae sp - Synthesiomyia nudiseta - female Sarcophagidae - Synthesiomyia nudiseta - male Sarcophagidae - Synthesiomyia nudiseta - male Sarcophagidae - Synthesiomyia nudiseta - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Muscidae (House Flies and kin)
Subfamily Azeliinae
Tribe Reinwardtiini
Genus Synthesiomyia
Species nudiseta (Synthesiomyia nudiseta)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cyrtonerua nudiseta Van der Wulp, 1883
Range
Southern USA to South America, warm parts of other continents
Food
"The fly breeds in decomposing animal and vegetable wastes and has been recorded as breeding in human cadavers." (Eldridge and James, 1957)(1)
See Also
Very similar to Sarcophaginae, but has four stripes on thorax instead of three.