Sepsidae

Sepsis fulgens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sciomyzoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Muscomorpha Sectio: Schizophora Subsectio: Acalyptrata Superfamilia: Sciomyzoidea

Familia: Sepsidae
Genera (31): Adriapontia – Afrosepsis – ?Allosepsis – Archisepsis – Australosepsis – Brachythoracosepsis – Decachaetophora – Dicranosepsis – Idiosepsis – Lasionemopoda – Leptomerosepsis – Meropliosepsis – Meroplius – Microsepsis – Mucha – Nemopoda – Ortalischema – Orygma – Palaeosepsioides – Palaeosepsis – Parapalaeosepsis – Paratoxopoda – Perochaeta – Pseudopalaeosepsis – Saltella – Sepsis – Susanomira – Themira – Toxopoda – Xenosepsis – Zuskamira

Name

Sepsidae Walker, 1833

References

Additional references

• Ang, Y.; Meier, R. 2010: Five additions to the list of Sepsidae (Diptera) for Vietnam: Perochaeta cuirassa sp. n., Perochaeta lobo sp. n., Sepsis spura sp. n., Sepsis sepsi Ozerov, 2003 and Sepsis monostigma Thompson, 1869. ZooKeys, 70: 41–56. ISSN: 1313-2970 (online) ISSN: 1313-2989 (print) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.70.766.
• Ang, Y-C., Meier, R., Su, K.F-Y. & Rajaratnam, G. 2017. Hidden in the urban parks of New York City: Themira lohmanus, a new species of Sepsidae described based on morphology, DNA sequences, mating behavior, and reproductive isolation (Sepsidae, Diptera). ZooKeys 698: 95—111. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.698.13411. Reference page. 
• Ang, Y. ; Puniamoorthy, N. & R. Meier, 2008: Secondarily reduced foreleg armature in Perochaeta dikowi sp.n. (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha: Sepsidae) due to a novel mounting technique. Systematic Entomology 33 (3): 552–559. Abstract: DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00422.x.
• Ang, Y., Puniamoorthy, J., Pont, A.C., Bartak, M., Blanckenhorn, W.U., Eberhard, W.G., Puniamoorthy, N., Silva, V.C., Munari, L. & Meier, R. 2013. A plea for digital reference collections and other science-based digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar: Digital reference collections such as Sepsidnet. Systematic Entomology 38(3): 637–644. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12015 Reference page. 
• Ang, Y-C., Rohner, P.T. & Meier, R. 2015. Across the Baltic: a new record for an enigmatic black scavenger fly, Zuskamira inexpectata (Pont, 1987) (Sepsidae) in Finland. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4308. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4308. Reference page. 
• Colless, D.H., 1980: Biogeography of Australian Sepsidae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 28(1): 65 - 78. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9800065.
• Iwasa, M., 1980: Studies on the Sepsidae from Japan (Diptera) : I. Revision of the Genus Sepsis Fallen, with a Key to the Japanese Genera. Kontyû 48 (3): 402–412. Abstract and full article: [1].
• Iwasa, M., 1982: A new Oriental species of the genus Sepsis from Taiwan and Indonesia (Diptera: Sepsidae). Pacific Insects 24 (3-4): 232–234. Full article: [2].
• Iwasa, M. & T.H. Thinh, 2012: Taxonomic and faunistic studies of the Sepsidae (Diptera) from Vietnam, with descriptions of six new species. Entomologcal Science 15 (1): 99–114. Abstract: DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2011.00482.x.
• Ozerov, A.L., 2010: Three new species of Sepsidae (Diptera). Far Eastern Entomologist N 209: 1–6. Full article: [3].
• Ozerov, A.L. 2005. World Catalogue of the family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera). Zoologicheskie issledovania 8: 74. full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Ozerov, A.L. 2018. Contribution to the fauna of the genus Meroplius Rondani, 1874 (Diptera, Sepsidae) of the Australasian/Oceanian region. Zootaxa 4438(1): 195–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.1.13 Reference page. 
• Silva, V.C. 2016. FAMILY SEPSIDAE. In Wolff, M.I., Nihei, S.S. & Carvalho, C.J.B. de (eds.), Catalogue of Diptera of Colombia. Zootaxa 4122(1): 648–652. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.54. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: black scavenger flies
中文: 艳细蝇科