The present publication is the first attempt to review the central European taxa of the family Sarcophagidae or flesh-flies. More than 150 species of the family are known to occur in this area, a number of which is representative for central Europe, and no essential changes in number of taxa are to be expected in future. The paper comprises information on nomenclature and synonymy, classification and phylogeny, morphology, relation to hosts, ethology of adults, flesh-fly taxocenoses, forensic importance of flesh-flies and, finally, a review of all taxa distributed in the individual countries of central Europe.
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