Two new species of the ‘Big Yellows’ (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Sarcophaga)
LUCAS GEISLER,
THOMAS PAPE
Abstract:The informal name ‘Big Yellows’ is proposed for a possibly non-monophyletic assemblage of large-bodied, yellow-coloured species of flesh flies found in the Melanesian archipelagoes of Bismarck, Solomon and Vanuatu. The group comprises several species of Sarcophaga Meigen subgenus Sarcorohdendorfia Baranov plus the only species of Sarcophaga subgenus Chrysosarcophaga Townsend. Two new species are described from Melanesia: Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) confusio sp. nov. (Bismarck Archipelago: New Britain, Yalom… Show more
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