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There has been long-standing confusion over the identity of this species and the closely related Sepsis violacea Meigen. The latter does not occur in North America, so presumably all records of it in North America refer to Sepsis punctum (Fabricius). (BugGuide)

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Sepsis punctum

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Sepsidae
Genus:	Sepsis
Species:	S. punctum
Binomial name
*Sepsis punctum* (Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms
Musca punctum Fabricius, 1794 Sepsis ornata Meigen, 1826

Sepsis punctum is a European species of fly and member of the family Sepsidae.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

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^ "Fauna Europaea". European Commission. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
^ Pont, A.C. (1979). Sepsidae. Diptera (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 10/5c). London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 35 pp.
^ Pont, A.C.; Meier, R. (2002). The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europe (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 37). Brill. pp. 198 pp.

Taxon identifiers
Sepsis punctum	Wikidata: Q7452025 BioLib: 123124 BOLD: 164854 BugGuide: 906711 EoL: 734453 EPPO: SEPSPU EUNIS: 74654 Fauna Europaea: 64279 Fauna Europaea (new): e79f5365-3948-43bc-82a9-f65530b97458 GBIF: 1676063 iNaturalist: 129431 ITIS: 145028 NatureServe: 2.1061483 NBN: NBNSYS0000012956 NCBI: 517492 Observation.org: 19080 Open Tree of Life: 589555 TaiCOL: t0032795

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Sepsis punctum (Fabricius, 1794)

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