Identification, Images, & Information For Insects, Spiders &
Their Kin For the United States & Canada Clickable Guide
Species Scathophaga stercoraria - Golden Dung Fly  Golden Dung
Flies Mating - Scathophaga stercoraria - male - female Golden
Dung Fly - Scathophaga stercoraria Yellow Fly - Scathophaga
stercoraria Golden Dung Fly? - Scathophaga stercoraria -
Scathophaga stercoraria Unknown Fly - Scathophaga stercoraria
Scathophaga stercoraria? - Scathophaga stercoraria - male -
female Golden Dung Fly - Scathophaga stercoraria Fly -
Scathophaga stercoraria Kingdom Animalia (Animals) Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods) Class Insecta (Insects) Order Diptera
(Flies) No Taxon (Calyptratae) Superfamily Muscoidea Family
Scathophagidae (Dung Flies) Genus Scathophaga Species
stercoraria (Golden Dung Fly) Other Common Names Yellow Dung Fly
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes First described in 1758 by
Carolus Linnaeus as Musca stercoraria  Scatophaga stercoraria (A
common spelling of the genus- correct as Greek, but incor