{{Short description|Species of fly}} {{Speciesbox | genus = Sargus | species = decorus | authority = Say, 1824<ref name="Say1824">{{cite book |last1=Say |first1=T. |title=Appendix. Part I.-Natural History. 1. Zoology. E. Class Insecta. Pp. 268-378. In Keating, W. H., Major Long's second expedition| volume= 2 |date=1824 |location=Philadelphia |pages=459 pp., pls. 6–15}}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | synonyms = *''Sargus xanthopus'' <small>Wiedemann, 1830</small><ref name="Wiedemann1830">{{cite book |last1=Wiedemann |first1=Christian Rudolph Wilhelm |title=Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten |date=1830 |volume=2 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88495#page/7/mode/1up |accessdate=21 April 2020}}</ref> *''Sargus marginatus'' <small>Wulp, 1867</small><ref name="Wulp1867">{{cite journal |last1=Wulp |first1=F.M. van der |title=Eenige Noord-Americaansche Diptera |journal=Tijdschrift voor Entomologie |date=1867 |volume=10 |pages=125–164, pl. 3–5 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10850490#page/139/mode/1up |access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref> *''Sargus picticornis'' <small>Bigot, 1887</small><ref name="Bigot1887a">{{cite journal |last1=Bigot |first1=J.M.F. |title=Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 31e partie. XXXIX Descriptions de nouvelles espèces de Stratiomydi et de Conopsidi |journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France |date=1887 |volume=7 |issue=6 |pages=20–46 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8230683#page/26/mode/1up |access-date=19 December 2022}}</ref> *''Sargus pallipes'' <small>Bigot, 1887</small><ref name="Bigot1887a"/> *''Sargus puntifer'' <small>Bigot, 1887</small><ref name="Bigot1887a"/> *''Sargus punctifer'' <small>Kertész, 1908</small><ref name="Kertész1909">{{cite journal |last1=Kertész |first1=K. |title=Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Notacanthen. XII-XXII |journal=Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici |date=1909 |volume=7 |pages=369–397}}</ref> *''Sargus bigoti'' <small>Brunetti, 1923</small><ref name="Brunetti1923">{{cite journal|last1=Brunetti|first1=Enrico Adelelmo|title=Second revision of the Oriental Stratiomyidae|journal=Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta)|date=1923|volume=25|pages=45–180}}</ref> *''Sargus decorus'' subsp. ''alaskensis'' <small>James, 1951</small><ref name="James1951">{{cite journal |last1=James |first1=M. T. |title=The Stratiomyidae of Alaska (Diptera) |journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington |date=1951 |volume=53 |issue=6 |pages=342–343 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16261243#page/374/mode/1up |access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref> }}
thumb | right | alt=A photo of the ‘Sargus decorus’ fly on a leaf | Sargus decorus on a leaf '''''Sargus decorus''''' is a species of soldier fly in the family Stratiomyidae.<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>
==Distribution== Widespread Nearctic.
==See also== * Sargus albibarbus * Sargus bipunctatus
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Stratiomyidae Category:Insects described in 1824 Category:Flies of North America Category:Taxa named by Thomas Say
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