Scathophaga

Taxobox
name = "Scathophaga"

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image_caption = "Scathophaga stercoraria" (Linnaeus), Common Yellow Dung-fly.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Calyptratae
superfamilia = Muscoidea
familia = Scathophagidae
subfamilia = Scathophaginae
genus = "Scathophaga"
genus_authority = Meigen, 1803
synonyms = *"Pyropa" Illiger, 1807
*"Scatina" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Scatomyza" Fallén, 1810
*"Scatophaga" Fabricius, 1805
*"Scopeuma" Meigen, 1800

The genus "Scathophaga" are small to medium sized predatory flies that for the most part, have larvae that feed on other insect larva within animal dung or decaying vegetable matter. Many are very variable, sometimes producing small, infertile males that superficially resemble females.

pecies

*"S. calida" (Haliday in Curtis, 1832)
*"S. furcata" (Say, 1823)
*"S. inquinata" (Meigen, 1826)
*"S. litorea" (Fallén, 1819)
*"S. lutaria" (Fabricius, 1794)
*"S. pictipennis" (Oldenberg, 1923)
*"S. scybalaria" (Linnaeus, 1758)
*"S. stercoraria" (Linnaeus, 1758)
*"S. suilla" (Fabricius, 1794)

References