Wohlfahrtia pachytyli
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Sarcophagidae |
| Genus: | Wohlfahrtia |
| Species: | W. pachytyli |
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Wohlfahrtia pachytyli is a species of flesh fly in the family Sarcophagidae. This fly is a parasite of the brown locust, Locustana pardalina; the fly deposits larvae on late-instar hoppers and adult fledglings, generally targeting them as they shed old skin (ecdysis).[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Townsend, Charles Henry Tyler (1919). "New muscoid genera, species and synonym (Diptera)". Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. 6: 157–182. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ↑ Pape, Thomas H. (1996). "Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the World (Insecta:Diptera)". Memoirs on Entomology, International. 8. Utah: American Entomological Institute: 1–558. ISBN 9781566650632.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) - ↑ Price, R. E., & Brown, H. D. (2006). The status of the locust fly, Wohlfahrtia pachytyli (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), in the Karoo and the impact of locust control operations on its abundance. African Entomology, 14(1), 35-43. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC32674