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oebenin

Date

August 29, 2020 03:24 PM CET

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superegnum

Date

June 7, 2011 09:51 AM WEST

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faluke

Date

September 12, 2014 08:32 PM CEST

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patricklm35

Date

October 8, 2013 11:20 AM CEST

Description

pondant sur toiles des chenilles d'Evergestes extimalis

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obi_

Date

August 2023

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What

Whitney's Horse Fly (Merycomyia whitneyi)

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gaudettelaura

Date

September 2, 2021 09:30 PM EDT

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treegrow

Date

August 22, 2017 01:37 AM EDT

Description

Oestrophasia calva female. Portal Peak Lodge, Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.

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wayne_fidler

Date

September 10, 2019 08:54 AM EDT

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miller_museum

Date

July 4, 2020 04:00 PM MDT

Description

Collector: K.E.
Elev: 5184'
Temp: 74 °F
MMEW# 424
Nectaring on shoreline Sunflower. Private slip - North Poudre Reservoir Number 6

See Also: https://bugguide.net/node/view/2084732/bgimage

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lauraafiyb

Date

September 13, 2020 10:27 AM +03

Place

Hargeisa (Google, OSM)

Description

Camel nasal bot found after butchering camel

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What

African Rhinoceros Botfly (Gyrostigma rhinocerontis)

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jessicatyrer

Date

April 5, 2022 08:13 PM SAST

Description

Is this Synolcus dubious?

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What

African Rhinoceros Botfly (Gyrostigma rhinocerontis)

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karooicus

Date

March 1, 2022 08:09 AM SAST

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

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jackychiangmai

Date

April 9, 2023 11:03 AM +07

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naturephotosuze

Date

September 2, 2020 12:25 PM PDT

Description

Rucker Canyon

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vaughanjessnitz

Date

November 16, 2022 12:41 PM SAST

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What

Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)

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glennstockil

Date

December 24, 2022 09:33 PM CAT

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What

Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)

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mdjusri

Date

January 3, 2019 01:34 PM AWST

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What

Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)

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ktor

Date

April 30, 2019 04:34 PM +07

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What

Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)

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anukma

Place

Malaysia (Google, OSM)

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siddantas

Date

December 3, 2021 09:40 AM -03

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siddantas

Date

August 22, 2020 02:27 PM -04

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blazeclaw

Date

March 1, 2020 07:41 AM MST

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

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miguelangelrnr

Date

August 6, 2022 09:33 AM -04

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ibycter

Date

February 18, 2011 11:56 AM AST

Place

Nouragues (Google, OSM)

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What

Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

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jpiolain

Date

August 2022

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olivier_fortune

Date

December 23, 2022 06:47 PM -03

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benoit_segerer

Date

July 2, 2022 02:11 PM -05

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stephen_wv

Date

May 21, 2013 10:09 AM -04

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nelson_wisnik

Date

April 27, 2020 11:47 AM -03

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What

Glire Bot Flies (Genus Cuterebra)

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ibycter

Date

March 2, 2021 10:51 AM PST

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christianmarty

Date

April 8, 2022 11:45 AM -04

Description

Saul village

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Date

November 21, 2022 09:36 PM -03

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What

Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)

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cesarfavacho

Date

April 10, 2014 04:30 PM -03

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augusto50

Date

January 13, 2017 10:51 PM -04

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tarekbejaoui

Date

May 17, 2021 03:59 PM CET

Place

Magheraoua (Google, OSM)

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xespok

Date

September 2, 2006 03:53 PM CEST

Description

det. Theo Zeegers (diptera.info)
cf. species level I very vague
https://diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=8961

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xespok

Date

July 30, 2008 06:22 PM CEST

Description

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Date

June 11, 2022 10:56 AM CEST

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

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pisum

Date

September 30, 2022 02:09 PM CDT

Description

there's something orange emerging from the end of this Wheel bug, and I assume the egg on its back (and another on its left front leg) is probably also from the same parasitic organism. maybe a feather legged fly.

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neilnicholas

Date

December 31, 2021 11:55 AM EET

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What

Redflank Needlenose Fly (Philoliche rubramarginata)

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birdingislife

Date

October 4, 2020 12:32 PM UTC

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faluke

Date

May 2, 2022 08:43 PM CEST

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

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faluke

Date

May 2, 2022 11:00 AM CEST

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faluke

Date

May 22, 2022 01:29 PM CEST

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faluke

Date

May 22, 2022 12:06 PM CEST

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birdingislife

Date

March 20, 2022 03:38 PM EET

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

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dibra007

Date

August 27, 2022 06:17 PM WEST

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kostaszontanos

Date

June 22, 2022 10:20 AM EEST

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What

Longtongue Tanglevein Flies (Genus Prosoeca)

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karooicus

Date

May 13, 2022 03:56 PM SAST

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cheryl394

Date

May 15, 2022 12:54 PM +07

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hauke_koch

Date

May 8, 2022 03:34 PM BST

Description

At oak processionary moth nest. Several individuals ovipositing.

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waldgeist

Date

May 14, 2022 04:09 PM CEST

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waldgeist

Date

May 11, 2022 03:20 PM CEST

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aispinsects

Date

April 2022

Description

Please note this is an informal description done for fun.

Female. 4 mm. Head short and round, slightly swollen, with integument reddish yellow on the parafrontals and becoming yellow on the parafacials and below, ocellar tubercle black, triangle undifferentiated, pruinescence nearly absent, thinly whitish on the gena and occiput. Occiput entirely black setulose, postocular row black setose. Front at vertex about 0.36 times head width, widening towards antennae. Parafrontals mostly bare, with several short black setulae restricted to the posterior half. Frontal vitta yellow, at middle about as wide as either parafrontal, widening slightly anteriorly. Postocellar setae present, parallel. Inner and outer vertical setae present, inner slightly longer, pair convergent and cruciate, setae meeting near the tips. Ocellar setae present, proclinate, situated between posterior and anterior ocelli. Upper reclinate setae present in 1 pair. Lower proclinate setae present in 8–9 pairs situated closely to frontal rows, extending down to nearly whole row. Frontal setae present in about 11 pairs, all inclinate, none descending below antennal bases, but lowest 2 oblique arrangement from main frontal row. Parafacials bare, wide, at narrowest about half the width of the face. Face concave, not visible in profile, without a median carina separating antennae, lower portion narrowed. Vibrissa barely differentiated as more robust setae, crossed, angle situated distinctly above lower facial margin. Facial ridge setose on lower third, supravibrissal setae of 4–5 setae. Antennae about a third as long as the height of the face, but situated on the upper fourth of the face, leaving about a third of the face below the antennae, bases narrowly separated by distance less than width of scape. Scape and pedicel yellowish. First flagellomere uniformly bright yellowish orange, rounded, 1.7–1.8 times as long as pedicel. Arista light brown, with tiny whitish area in the middle, cylindrical, nearly bare, as long as antennae or longer, first aristomere minute, second barely longer than wide, third thickened only on basal fifth. Gena with dark setulae, wide, about a third head height and half eye height, with groove extensive, ending nearly at facial ridge, forming a very large genal dilation. Eyes bare. Proboscis not elongated. Palpi present, well-developed, yellow, somewhat short and strongly expanded apically.
Scutum reddish, becoming yellowish on the humeri and the scutellum. Pleura reddish, mostly bare with few sparse, black, short setulae. Anterior thoracic spiracle yellow, small. Posterior thoracic spiracle reddish. Chaetotaxy: acrostichals 2+2-4 (2 posterior pairs distinctly developed, 2 anterior pairs weak); dorsocentrals 2+3; intrapostalar setae weak or absent; intraalars 1+2 (anterior about as far from suture as first dorsocentral); posthumeral 1 or 1+1; presutural 1; humeral 2, mostly bare posteriorly; notopleura 2, bare of setulae; supralar 2, anterior shorter than or about as long as dorsocentrals; postalar 2; prosternum bare; proepisternum bare, lower portion with 1 short seta, directed upwards; proepimeron with 2 setae, directed upwards; anepisternum with a posterior row of 6 setae, with 1 anterodorsal seta, 2 short setulae below it; katepisternal 2, with anterocoxal row of 4 setae curved posteriorly; katepimeron bare; anepimeron with a cluster of 4-5 short setae; meron with row of 6-7 setae; infrasquamal hairs on the postalar wall absent; scutellum with 6 pairs of setae total: a basal pair, 2 lateral pairs about the same size, curved, a longer convergent and cruciate subapical pair, a very short, convergent and cruciate apical pair, and a short discal pair. Disc of scutellum mostly bare, clothed with dark setulae except for a broadly bare basomedial area, without erect, subapical setae.
Legs moderately stout, entirely yellowish except for claws and pulvilli, covered in black vestiture, fore tarsi slightly darkened apically. Chaetotaxy: Cx1 with medial area bare, only setose at the margins; T1 with row of numerous ad (10 or more), 2 p; Cx2 with row of 8 or so anterior setae curved posteriorly; F2 with 2 a/av, 2 ad, 2 pv; T2 with 1 av, 2–3 ad, 2 pd; Cx3 bare posteriorly; F3 with 1 basal av, row of 5 d, 2 pv; T3 with 2-4 av, row of 10 ad, widely separated, of various sizes, 3 outstanding, row of 7 pd, widely separated, of various sizes, 2 outstanding. Tarsi with tarsomeres normal. Claws and pulvilli shorter than fifth tarsomere. Claws black, pulvilli whitish.
Wings pictured, with contrasting yellowish, brownish, and hyaline area. One crossband present. Picture as a yellowish costal area from base to middle of cell R1, reaching down to crossvein r-m, conspicuously a brown spot on the crossvein, and back to cover cell Br. Picture also brownish yellow on almost the entire basal portion of the wing and as a single disjunct apical crossband that crosses crossvein dm-cu and recurves to terminate near the middle of cell dm. Tegula and basicosta yellow. Costal spine distinct, in length about 1.5 times the width of the costa. Costal arc between vein Sc and R1 three or more times as long as costal spine. Vein R1 bare. Vein R4+5 basally and dorsally with 4 setae in a row less than a third of the distance to crossvein r-m, ventrally even shorter. Vein M sinuous, ending in wing margin, away from the end of vein R4+5 by distance shorter than length of crossvein r-m. Bend of M sinuous, angle roundedly perpendicular to obtuse, without a spur vein or fold in the membrane as a continuation, much closer to wing margin than crossvein dm-cu, latter convex or bowed outward in the middle, the latter joining M about half the distance from crossvein r-m to bend of M. Vein CuA1 with distal section very short, ending before wing margin, about 0.14 times the length of the preceding section. Vein A1 not reaching wing margin. Calypters uniformly yellow, with yellow pubescence throughout and fringe. Halteres uniformly yellow.
Abdominal dorsum and venter subshining reddish yellow with black spots and bands. Tergite 1+2 with only a marginal, black, dash-like spot on the median fifth. Tergite 3 with black posterior band about a ninth of the tergite's length thick, continuing to the sides, not reaching venter, and expanding into a median black triangle that extends up to less than half of the tergal length, triangle about as wide as median spot on tergite 1+2. Tergite 4 with black posterior band about a fifth of the tergite's length thick, continuing to the sides, only narrowly reaching venter, and expanding into a median black triangle that extends up to half of the tergal length, triangle about as wide as base of median triangle on tergite 3, triangle more truncate than that of tergite 3. Tergite 5 trifasciate, with 3 long black spots or stripes equally spaced. Tergite 1+2 without setae, only recumbent black setulae, with median depression narrow, restricted to anterior half to two thirds of segment. Tergite 3 without discal setae, with 1 pair of median marginal setae, 3 pairs of short lateral setae. Tergite 4 without discal setae, with several marginal setae extending to sides, median pair slightly displaced forward. Tergite 5 truncate, round apically, with transverse discal row of 13 setae extending to ventral margins of tergite. All sternites hidden, ventral margins of tergites overlapping. Ovipositor not modified into a sickle.

I have been wanting to find these flies for a while. Contrary to what the key on the Manual of Nearctic Diptera suggests, vein M does not meet vein R4+5 well before the wing margin in this specimen and probably the whole genus. This specimen keys to couplet 319. The vibrissa are very poorly differentiated but the postgenal margin forms a distinct genal dilation. The katepisternum has 2 setae and 2 postsutural supra-alar seta similar to genus Eutrixa. Otherwise, this species keys variously to Trigonospila and Euhalidaya. The mid tibia has only an anteroventral seta on the ventral surface, not directly ventral, and interestingly, the frons has a row of proclinate orbital setae extending to nearly the end of the frontal row of setae.
No accessible key to species to Oestrophasia has been made since Wulp in 1890. Oestrophasia sabroskyi was diagnosed by Kovarik & Reitz in 2005. They write females in the subgenus Oestrophasia lack the pointed ovipositor of subgenus Cenosoma. The only species in our area in subgenus Oestrophasia are O. calva and O. clausa. Both sexes of O. clausa have vein R4+5 almost entirely setose to crossvein r-m, and the abdomen is more extensively dark, with dark median vitta that continues past the tergites. O clausa has also not been collected in Florida. Oestrophasia calva has probably not been traditionally described since its original description in 1902 by Coquillett. As a result, there little to expect and disagree with from the description. However, Coquillett's description mentions the vertex being twice as wide as either eye in the female, which is ridiculously wide. This should be an error as most tachinid flies don't have such widely separated vertices. In addition, the "first segment" of the abdomen (tergite 1+2) is written as having marginal setae, which are lacking in this specimen. Both sexes of O. sabroskyi are described as also lacking setae on tergite 1+2. Looking at BugGuide photos, the development of these setae might vary intraspecifically, but are never well-developed.
A systematic analysis of the tribe Dufouriini by de Santis & Nihei was made in 2022 which included O. calva. The species was not fully redescribed but an extensive character matrix was created. This specimen matches nearly all characters, except for the yellow postnotum (this may be sexually dimorphic) and only 2 anterodorsal setae on the female mid femur instead of the 3 suggested. BugGuide images of this species also show less than 3 setae present on this surface of the mid femora.

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gerrit_oehm

Date

March 28, 2022 12:31 PM CEST

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faluke

Date

February 26, 2022 08:10 PM CET

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What

Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)

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seemamerchant

Date

March 27, 2022 09:09 PM IST

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thijsvalkenburg

Date

March 13, 2022 04:17 PM GMT

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

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surfinbird

Date

March 19, 2022 02:44 PM SAST

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david_cabanillas

Date

March 27, 2021 01:36 PM CET

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Long-tongue Horse Flies (Subfamily Pangoniinae)

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isaiasmorataya

Date

June 26, 2018 01:50 PM CDT

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Cutworm Flies (Genus Gonia)

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phacelia15

Date

March 4, 2022 01:27 PM CST

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giovannifontana

Date

March 5, 2022 01:41 PM CET

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rui_andrade

Date

September 8, 2008

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zeferreira

Date

May 26, 2020 11:50 AM BST

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marcello

Date

June 25, 2017 01:57 PM CEST

Description

Bithia modesta/demotica ♀

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Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)

Date

September 25, 2020 07:15 AM -03

Description

Enorme mosca encontrada em residência. Apresentava movimentos lentos e não voou durante o manuseio

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Glossy Horsefly (Tabanus insignis)

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konkoit

Date

February 13, 2022 05:03 PM SAST

Place

Mtunzini (Google, OSM)

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What

Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)

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reiner

Date

February 5, 2022 01:50 PM AEDT

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

Date

August 24, 2018 11:24 AM +03

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What

Schizophoran Flies (Zoosection Schizophora)

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joachim

Date

October 7, 2020 07:22 PM CEST

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cecileroux

Date

January 29, 2022 10:26 AM SAST

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trevorpescott

Date

January 30, 2022 01:30 PM AEDT

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What

Glossy Horsefly (Tabanus insignis)

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konkoit

Date

January 27, 2022 05:12 PM SAST

Place

Mtunzini (Google, OSM)

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aworsey

Date

June 22, 2020 09:17 AM UTC

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What

Pale Giant Horse Fly (Tabanus bovinus)

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john_hepburn

Date

June 19, 2020

Place

Devon, UK (Google, OSM)

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Pale Giant Horse Fly (Tabanus bovinus)

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archaeo-em

Date

July 2, 2021 07:53 PM CEST

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botswanabugs

Date

January 25, 2022

Description

On sedge sp Serowe dam, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105650767 No water currently but a lot of vegetation.

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c_hutton

Date

December 22, 2020 09:54 AM EST

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c_hutton

Date

December 22, 2020 09:54 AM EST

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suecee

Date

January 26, 2022 04:19 PM +11

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xespok

Date

September 19, 2021 11:23 AM CEST

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bottin

Date

July 14, 2021 03:17 PM CEST

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bottin

Date

July 14, 2021 03:46 PM CEST

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What

True Horse Flies (Genus Tabanus)

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al_losk-lifebra

Date

June 24, 2008 01:35 PM UTC

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lucaskaminski

Date

February 20, 2012 05:23 PM -02

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phillipchp

Date

July 22, 2020 12:41 PM CST

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sara_atailia

Date

April 11, 2021 11:19 PM CEST

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

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substanz

Date

October 2019

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What

Parasite Flies (Family Tachinidae)

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tonyrebelo

Date

November 7, 2021 11:40 AM SAST

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What

Glossy Horsefly (Tabanus insignis)

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evansolomon

Date

January 15, 2022 12:57 PM CAT

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What

True Horse Flies (Genus Tabanus)

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lemoncul

Date

December 24, 2021 12:15 PM SAST

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aacocucci

Date

January 16, 2022 04:46 PM -03

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sethmusker

Date

November 4, 2017 11:01 AM CET

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esant

Date

August 29, 2021 11:14 AM HST

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martin_galli

Date

July 6, 2021 03:26 PM CEST

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albertcardona

Date

June 21, 2021 11:38 AM CEST

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ftsautter

Date

January 1, 2022 11:20 AM -03