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fontinella group

Cuterebra fontinella fontinella? - Cuterebra fontinella

Freshly hatched bot fly eggs and larvae - Cuterebra fontinella

Squirrel Bot Fly at Camp Yawgoog - Cuterebra emasculator

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Oestroidea

Family Oestridae (Bot Flies)

Subfamily Cuterebrinae (New World Skin Bot Flies)

Genus Cuterebra (Rodent and Lagomorph Bot Flies)

No Taxon fontinella group

Numbers

4 spp.(1)

Size

"small"(1)

Works Cited

1.	North American Species of Cuterebra, the Rabbit and Rodent Bot Flies (Diptera: Cuterebridae) Curtis W. Sabrosky. 1986. Entomological Society of America, College Park Maryland.

Contributed by v belov on 15 June, 2014 - 1:03pm
Last updated 12 June, 2024 - 4:13pm

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