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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Black Scavenger Flies (Sepsidae) » Sepsis » Sepsis punctum

Species Sepsis punctum

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Sciomyzoidea
Family Sepsidae (Black Scavenger Flies)
Genus Sepsis
Species punctum (Sepsis punctum)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sepsis punctum (Fabricius, 1794)
Range
All of USA and Canada, and into Mexico. Also widely distributed in Palaearctic and Oriental regions. (1)
Remarks
There has been long-standing confusion over the identity of this species and the closely related Sepsis violacea Meigen. The latter does not occur in North America (1), so presumably all records of it in North America refer to Sepsis punctum (Fabricius).
Works Cited
1.World catalogue of the family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera)
Ozerov, A.L. 2005. Zoologicheskie issledovania, No. 8, 74 pp.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 6 April, 2014 - 9:21pm

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