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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Flesh Flies (Sarcophagidae)
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fly ex. Melanoplus femurrubrum nymph
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fly ex. Melanoplus femurrubrum nymph
Lime Hollow, Cortland, Cortland County, New York, USA
August 19, 2017
Adult emerged!

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fly larva ex. Melanoplus femurrubrum nymph fly ex. Melanoplus femurrubrum nymph fly ex. Melanoplus femurrubrum nymph - male
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Contributed by metrioptera on 21 August, 2017 - 4:15pm
Last updated 21 August, 2017 - 7:21pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 21 August, 2017 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

Neat!
At least one species of Nearctic Sarcophagidae have been reported to use Orthopterans as hosts, Hilarella hilarella (Zetterstedt). The reported host was some kind of Rhaphidophoridae.

Edit: Also Blaesoxipha atlanis (Aldrich) has been reported from Melanoplus sanguinipes, Sarcophaga falciformis Aldrich from Melanoplus devastator, and additional records can be seen in a Google scholar search I just did. You'd probably have to get it scoped to figure it out.
… Brad Barnd, 21 August, 2017 - 6:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Lots of species
Genus Blaesoxipha is full of grasshopper parasites.
… John F. Carr, 21 August, 2017 - 7:20pm login or register to post comments

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