Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) ferox Villeneuve 1908
Creators: name: Whitmore, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Sarcophaga
Sarcophaga ferox

description: Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) ferox Villeneuve, 1908   
 Sarcophaga ferox Villeneuve, 1908: 123. Type locality: Santa Cruz (Tenerife), southern France.   
 Sardinian literature records. Cagliari prov., Costa Rei (Povolný 1997, 2004).   
 Type material examined. Syntype ♂: S. Cruz / 47394. III // Sammlung / Dr. Th. Becker // Type // Sarc. ferox / type / det. Dr. Villeneuve // Zool. Mus. / Berlin (ZMHB).   
 Material from Sardinia. A06: 10.IX.2006, 1\0. A07: 10.IX.2006, 1\0. A11: 13.IX.2006, hn, 1\0. C03: 23.V.2006, 0\1. C05: 23.V.2006, 2\0. C28: 22.V.2006, 1\0. C31: 20.V.2006, hn, 1\0; 20–23.V. 2006, 2\0; 23.V.2006, hn, 1\0. C32: 6.IX.2006, 3\0. C39: 13.VII.2006, 2\0. C43: 17.VII.2006, 1\0; 7.IX.2006, al, DA MB DB GN, 0\1; C52: 26.IX.2004, 1\1, dRR. C82: 9.VI.2004, hn, 1\0, dRR; 9–10.VI.2004, 1\0; 10.VI.2004, 2\0. C85: 2.IX.2003, 1\0, dRR. G06: 5.IX.2006, 1\0. G08: 5.IX.2006, 6\4. S1: 18.IV–2.V.2006, 0\1; 2– 16.V.2006, 0\2; 16–30.V.2006, 9\4; 30.V–13.VI.2006, 1\0; 13–27.VI.2006, 0\2; 27.VI–11.VII.2006, 0\1; 8– 22.VIII.2006, 1\0; 22.VIII–5.IX.2006, 6\3; 5–19.IX.2006, 1\2. S2: 16–30.V.2006, 4\0; 30.V–13.VI.2006, 1\0; 13–27.VI.2006, 5\0; 25.VII–8.VIII.2006, 1\0; 8–22.VIII.2006, 21\2; 22.VIII–5.IX.2006, 51\20; 5– 19.IX.2006, 13\0; 7.IX.2006, hn, DA MB DB GN, 4\0; 19.IX–3.X.2006, 0\3. S3: 4.IX.2003, hn, PC MT DW, 1\0, dRR; 19.IX–3.X.2006, 1\0. W01: 9–15.IX.1997, 5\1, dRR.   
 Additional material. Canary Islands. Tenerife, Laguna, 51447. VI, Sammlung Dr. Th. Becker, 1/0 (ZMHB) [old specimen baring a handwritten identification label by Villeneuve and a label with the word “ Type ”, but not mentioned in the original description]. Italy. Apulia: Lecce prov.: Gagliano del Capo, 6.VI.1941, OC, 1\0 (MZUR); dint. Leuca, 4.VI.1941, OC, 1\0 (MZUR). Latium: Latina prov., Monte Circeo, VI.1948, GS, 1\0 (MZUR, det. G. Saccà); Rome prov.: Rome, IX.1948, GS, 1\0 (MZUR); idem, 5.IX.1950, GS, 1\0 (MZUR); idem, Pietralata, 16.V.1941, GS, 1\0 (MZUR); idem, Tenuta della Cervelletta, 19.VII.1999, MM, 1\0 (MZUR, dRR); Tivoli, Colle Vescovo, 448 m, 6.V.2000, MM, 1\0 (MZUR, dRR); idem, 13.VIII.2001, MM, 1\0 (MZUR, dRR); idem, 16.VIII.2000, MM, 1\0 (MZUR, dRR). Sicily: Messina prov., Taormina, XI.1949, GS, 1\0 (MZUR); Palermo prov., Bosco della Ficuzza, Valle Cerasa, 990 m, UTM 33 S 362011 4190550, 28.VI.2005, DW DB PC ML, 1\0. Tuscany: Grosseto prov., Arcipelago Toscano, Isola del Giglio, 8–15.VII.2000, MM, 1\0 (MZUR, dRR).   
 Chorotype. Mediterranean.   
 Italian distribution. Apulia; Latium (Saccà & Rivosecchi 1953); Sardinia (Povolný 1997, 2004); Sicily (Böttcher 1913b; Saccà & Rivosecchi 1953); Giglio Is. (Tuscany).   
 Biology. Unknown. Povolný (2004) observed many males feeding on bird excrements on hilltops in Sardinia and Sicily. Traveset and Sáez (1997, as Sarcophaga bolivari Gil Collado, 1932) mentioned S. ferox as a possible pollinator of Euphorbia dendroides in Cabrera (Balearic Islands).
description: Published as part of Whitmore, Daniel, 2009, A review of the Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Sardinia *, pp. 566-588 in Zootaxa 2318 on pages 573-574