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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Bot Flies (Oestridae) » New World Skin Bot Flies (Cuterebrinae) » Rodent and Lagomorph Bot Flies (Cuterebra) » fontinella group (Cuterebra fontinella group) » Mouse Bot Fly (Cuterebra fontinella)
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No idea - Cuterebra fontinella
Copyright © 2013 Marci Hess

No idea - Cuterebra fontinella
Blanchard township, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
August 15, 2013
Thanks for the help.
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Contributed by Marci Hess on 15 August, 2013 - 4:24pm
Last updated 27 September, 2013 - 3:00pm

thanks, Jeff
Moved from Rodent and Lagomorph Bot Flies.
… v belov, 27 September, 2013 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

Cuterebra fontinella
This is a Cuterebra fontinella bot, it is a parasite of deer mice and white footed mice, Peromyscus. You have two subspecies in WI and I can't quite tell which this is. If you have any other shots showing the back of the fly or the face it might help. One uses deer mice and the other uses white-footed mice. One is C. fontinella fontinella, the other is C. fontinella grisea. Adults are common, yet rarely observed. So a good eye to spot it. I am looking for specimens of C. f. grisea if you happened to have collected it, to work on the dna of the species.
Jeff Boettner
… George "Jeff" Boettner, 27 September, 2013 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 15 August, 2013 - 4:45pm login or register to post comments

Bot Fly…
See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 15 August, 2013 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

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