Sepsis fulgens

Sepsis fulgens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sepsidae
Subfamily: Sepsinae
Genus: Sepsis
Species:
S. fulgens
Binomial name
Sepsis fulgens
Meigen, 1826[1]
Synonyms
  • Sepsis communis Frey, 1925
  • Sepsis concinna Walker, 1833
  • Sepsis tonsa Duda, 1926
  • Sepsis vibrans (Harris, 1780)
  • Sepsis minimus (Harris, 1780)

Sepsis fulgens is a small ant-mimicking fly sometimes called the "lesser dung fly", though this can also refer to any member of the distantly related fly family Sphaeroceridae.[2]

  1. ^ Meigen, J.W. (1826). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. xii + 412 pp., pls. 42–54.
  2. ^ Pont, A.C. (1979). Sepsidae. Diptera (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 10/5c). London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 35.