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sarcophagan

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Sarcophagan (noun) means a fly belonging to the genus Sarcophaga.

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A fly belonging to the genus Sarcophaga.

"Other insects, including a sarcophagan fly, a gnat, a sciarid fly, and two harmless mosquitoes dwell in the pitchers." — Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1968)

"See Chapters 2–5, and reduce the number of your Drosophila dissections to Sarcophagan levels!" — Daryl S. Henderson, Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols (2004)

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