{{Short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sargus flavipes (Yellow-legged Centurion) - female.jpg | image_caption = ''Sargus flavipes'', yellow-legged centurion | taxon = Sargus | authority = Fabricius, 1798<ref name=Fabricius1798>{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=J.C. |title=Supplementum entomologiae systematicae |date=1798 |publisher=C. G. Proft et Storch |location=Hafniae [= Copenhagen] |pages=[4] + 572 pp}}</ref> | synonyms = *''Chrysonotus'' <small>Loew, 1855 (Preocc.)</small> *''Chrysochroma'' <small>Williston, 1896</small> *''Chrysonotomyia'' <small>Hunter, 1901</small> *''Geosargus'' <small>Bezzi, 1907</small> *''Surgus'' <small>Ouchi, 1938 (Missp.)</small> *''Pedicellina'' <small>James, 1952</small> *''Himantoloba'' <small>McFadden, 1970</small> | type_species = ''Musca cuprarius'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758<ref name="Linnaeus1758">{{cite book |last1=Linnaeus |first1=C. |title=Systema naturae... Ed. 10, Vol. 1 |date=1758 |publisher=L. Salvii|location=Holmiae [= Stockholm] |pages=824 pp |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/2/mode/1up |access-date=14 November 2022}}</ref> }} thumb|''Sargus fasciatus''

'''''Sargus''''' is a genus of soldier flies in the family Stratiomyidae.<ref name="StubbsDrake2014">{{cite book |last1=Stubbs |first1=Alan E |last2=Drake |first2=Martin |title=British Soldierflies and their allies (an illustrated guide to their identification and ecology) |date=2014 |publisher=British Entomological and Natural History Society |location=Reading |isbn=9781899935079 |pages=528 pp, 20 plates |edition=2}}</ref><ref name="Woodley2001">{{cite journal |last1=Woodley |first1=N.E. |title=A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera) |journal=Myia |date=2001 |volume=11 |pages=1–462| url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303225468| access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="ZeegersSchulten2022">{{cite book |last1=Zeegers |first1=T. |last2=Schulten |first2=A. |title=Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe |date=2022 |publisher=Jeugdbondsuitgeverij |location=Graveland |isbn=9789051070682 |pages=256pp}}</ref>

==Selected species== {{main|List of Sargus species|l1=List of ''Sargus'' species}} *''S. albibarbus'' <small>Loew, 1855</small> *''S. aureopilosus'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982">{{cite journal|last1=James|first1=Maurice T.|last2=McFadden|first2=Max W.|title=The Sarginae (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) of Middle America|journal=Melanderia|date=1982|volume=40|pages=x + 50}}</ref> *''S. beppui'' <small>Nagatomi, 1990</small><ref name="Meunier1902">{{cite journal|last1=Meunier|first1=F.|title=Les Culicidae de l'ambre|journal=Revue Sci. Bourbon. Cent. Fr|date=1902|volume=15|pages=199–200}}</ref> *''S. bipunctatus'' <small>(Scopoli, 1763)</small> *''S. caeruleapex'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982"/> *''S. consisus'' <small>Wulp, 1896</small><ref name="Wulp1896">{{cite book|last1=Wulp|first1=F. M. van der|title=Catalogue of the described Diptera from south Asia|date=1896|location=The Hague.|pages=iv + 219 + 1 errata|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35305#page/11/mode/1up|accessdate=21 August 2017}}</ref> *''S. elongatulus'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982"/> *''S. evansi'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982"/> *''S. decorus'' <small>Say, 1824</small> *''S. cuprarius'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> *''S. cirrhosus'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982"/> *''S. flavipes'' <small>Meigen, 1822</small> *''S. harderseni'' <small>Mason & Rozkosny, 2008</small> *''S. iridatus'' <small>(Scopoli, 1763)</small> *''S. jaennickei'' <small>Woodley, 2001</small><ref name="Woodley2001"/> *''S. maculatus'' <small>(Lindner, 1936)</small> *''S. persimilis'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982"/> *''S. petersoni'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982"/> *''S. punctatus'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982"/> *''S. rufipes'' <small>Wahlberg, 1854</small> *''S. transversus'' <small>McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982"/> *''S. yerbabuena'' <small>Woodley, 2001</small><ref name="Woodley2001"/>

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Category:Stratiomyidae Category:Flies of Europe Category:Brachycera genera Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius

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