DipteraDiptera Index Flies Pollinators and Flies The Eyes of Flies Australian Sheep Blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) Australian Drain Fly Balaana Beefly Bat Flies Bee Flies Bee Fly (Anthrax) Australiphthiria Ligyra Chrysomya saffranea Clogmia (Moth Fly) Eristalinus punctulatus Musca Odontomyia (Soldier Flies) Hermetia illucens (Black Soldier Fly) Robber Flies Sarcophaga aurifrons Soldier Fly Syrphidae Syrphids Common Halfband (Melangyna viridiceps) Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly (Simosyrphus grandicornis)
The Sarcophaga aurifrons, commonly known as the Grey Flesh Fly or the Grey-striped Fly, is a large fly that is grey in colour and has three grey longitudinal stripes on the thorax. They have a relatively small head with red eyes.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Diptera
- Unranked: Cyclorrhapha
- Informal: Scizophora
- Informal: Calyptratae
- Superfamily: Oestroidea
- Family: Sarcophagidae
- Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
- Genus: Sarcophaga
- Subgenus: infrageneric Liosarcophaga
- Species: Sarcophaga aurifrons
Source: Atlas of Living Australia
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Diptera
- Suborder: Brachycera
- Infraorder: Cyclorrhapha
- Zoosection: Schizophora
- Zoosubsection: Calyptratae
- Superfamily: Oestroidea
- Family: Sarcophagidae
- Subfamily: Sarcophaginae
- Genus: Sarcophaga
- Subgenus: Taylorimyia
- Species: Sarcophaga aurifrons
Source: iNaturalistAU
Footnote & References
- Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) aurifrons Macquart, 1846, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/e90f5f06-af3d-4a43-9313-e40a0704c15f
- Grey-striped Fly (Sarcophaga aurifrons), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/129537-Sarcophaga-aurifrons
- Grey Flesh Fly – Sarcophaga aurifrons, Brisbane Insects and Spiders, https://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_muscoid/GreyFleshFly.htm
- Grey-striped Fly (Sarcophaga aurifrons), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/129537-Sarcophaga-aurifrons
DipteraDiptera Index Flies Pollinators and Flies The Eyes of Flies Australian Sheep Blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) Australian Drain Fly Balaana Beefly Bat Flies Bee Flies Bee Fly (Anthrax) Australiphthiria Ligyra Chrysomya saffranea Clogmia (Moth Fly) Eristalinus punctulatus Musca Odontomyia (Soldier Flies) Hermetia illucens (Black Soldier Fly) Robber Flies Sarcophaga aurifrons Soldier Fly Syrphidae Syrphids Common Halfband (Melangyna viridiceps) Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly (Simosyrphus grandicornis)
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