Sargus

{{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{{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}}

| synonyms =

• Chrysonotus Loew, 1855 (Preocc.)
• Chrysochroma Williston, 1896
• Chrysonotomyia Hunter, 1901
• Geosargus Bezzi, 1907
• Surgus Ouchi, 1938 (Missp.)
• Pedicellina James, 1952
• Himantoloba McFadden, 1970

| type_species = Musca cuprarius

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758{{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}}

}}

File:Soldier Fly - Sargus fasciatus, Woodbridge, Virginia - 17877435553.jpg

Sargus is a genus of soldier flies in the family Stratiomyidae.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}