Sarcophaga
Translingual
Etymology
- (genus): New Latin, from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) + Ancient Greek φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat, to devour”) + Latin -a (“-er”, nominal suffix).
- (suborder): Neuter plural of Latin sarcophagus (“flesh-devouring, carnivorous”), from Ancient Greek σαρκοφάγος (sarkophágos), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) + -φάγος (-phágos, “-eating”).
Proper noun
Sarcophaga f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Sarcophagidae – flesh flies.
Proper noun
Sarcophaga
- (obsolete) A taxonomic suborder within the superorder Marsupialia – carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.. [from 1839]
Hypernyms
- (genus in Sarcophagidae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Diptera – order; Brachycera – suborder; Muscomorpha – infraorder; Oestroidea – superfamily; Sarcophagidae – family; Sarcophaginae - subfamily; Sarcophagini - tribe; Sarcophagina - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus in Sarcophagidae): about 138 subgenera
- more than 700: Sarcophaga carnaria (flesh fly) - type species; Sarcophaga nodosa, Sarcophaga situliformis, Sarcophaga stygia - selected species
References
- genus of flies
- Sarcophaga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sarcophaga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Sarcophaga on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Sarcophaga at the Catalogue of Life
- suborder of marsupials
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Sarcophaga”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.