# Sarcophaga sp male

- By: Richard Bartz
- Date: 2009-07-08
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarcophaga_sp_male.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 2.5](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/5/50/Sarcophaga_sp_male.jpg/1920px-Sarcophaga_sp_male.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A male Sarcophaga sp. fly, of the Diptera family Sarcophagidae (from the Greek sarco- = flesh, phage = eating; the same roots as the word "sarcophagus"). Sarcophagidae are commonly known as flesh flies.