| The family Sarcophagidae belongs to Oestroidea, Calyptratae, Diptera, divided into three subfamilies, namely Miltogrammatinae, Paramacronychinae and Sarcophaginae, includes more than 3000 described species worldwide, and over 300 species are recorded in China. Some flesh flies are well-known medical and hygienic flies, also an important cause of traumatic myiasis of livestock and even humans. The Sarcophagidae has a reputation for a superabundance of genus-group names, thus it is a typical family for taxonomic and phylogenetic study.This study mainly based on the collected flesh fly specimens from Mt. Kalamaili Ungulate Nature Reserve from 2009 to 2013 and a total of five months systematically field research in 2014 and 2015.40 speices, belonging to 18 genera and covering three subfamilies respectively, have been found. Including two new record genus/subgenus (Wohlfahrtiodes Villeneuve and Sarcophaga (Stackelbergeola) Rohdendorf), three new species{Asiosarcophila kashanensis sp. nov., Sphecapatodes superciliosa sp. nov. and Sp. xinjiangensis sp. nov.) and nine new record species from China (Apodacra oxiana Rohdendorf, Phrosinella zarudnoji Rohdendorf, Spheapatoclea turanica (Rohdendorf), Sphenometopa fastuosa (Meigen), Taxigramma karakulensis (Enderlein), Wohlfahrtiodes marzinowskyi Rohdendorf, Blaesoxipha minima (Rohdendorf), B. kerzhneri Rohdendorf & Verves and S. (Stackelbergeola) sushkini (Rohdendorf)).In addition, this study has obtained the following main achievements (details see discussionof each species):(1) This study use scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to provide detailed terminalia images of four Sarcophaga spp., the results will help to the evolution research of this species-group. (2) Using wing inference patterns (WIPs) for the separation of species in the genus Sphecapatodes Villeneuveare, which is presented for species-level discrimination of miltogrammine sarcophagids. (3) This study presents a phylogenetic hypothesis for selected subgenera of Sarcophaga s.1. based on COI sequences (685 bp) for 87 species representing 27 valid subgenera. (4) I have found Mesomelena mesomelaena (Loew) (Miltogramminae), Wohlfahrtia balassogloi (Portschinsky) (Paramacronychiinae), W. fedtschenkoi Rohdendorf (Paramacronychiinae) and Sarcophaga (Liopygia) crassipalpis Macquart (Sarcophaginae) are able to feed on buried vertebrate remains, which is unique to other necrophagous Calyptratae and designated as potential candidates for forensic indicators in arid and semiarid area. |
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