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Set out below are the Essex lists of the
two main dung fly families, Scathophagidae,
with fifty three British and twenty one
from Essex, and Sphaeroceridae with one
hundred and seven British and no less than
sixty two species recorded from Essex.
Essex Sphaeroceridae
Copromyza atra
C . costalis
C . equina
C. fimetaria
C. glacialis
C. nitida
C. pallifrons
C. roserii
C. simii is
C. sordida
C. stercoraria
C. uncinata
C. vitripennis
Leptocera acutangula
L. atomus
L. bifrons
L. brachystoma
L. breviceps
L. claviventris
L. clunipes
L. coenosa
L. coxata
L. curvinervis
L. fenestral is
L. ferruginata
L. fontinalis
L. fungicola
L. fuscipennis
L. heteroneura