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A catalogue of the type specimens for nominal species-group taxa currently assigned to Sarcophaga deposited in the Shanghai Entomological Museum is presented. Type material of 22 of the 24 nominal species of Sarcophaga stated in the original paper to have type specimens deposited in the Shanghai Entomological Museum was recovered and examined, and these are documented with photographs for the first time. Two non-type specimens of S. tsushimae Senior-White, 1924 are shown to have been incorrectly labelled as paratypes but are included for completeness. No type material was recovered for the species Sarcophaga (Beziella) shenzhenensis (Fan, 2002) and Sarcophaga (Beziella) pudongensis (Fan, Chen & Lu, 2003). A syntype of Sarcophaga parva Quo, 1952 is shown to have been incorrectly labelled as holotype.
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