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I have this fly identified as an Oestridae, but I have no idea of its genus.

Photo #1


Photo #2


Coordinates of the place where I took these photos:
Latitude: -22.53842290066, Longitude: -43.228379487991

Date and time:
December 18, 2008 at 10.14am GMT+3


Thanks for help!
AC

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Check out the genus Cuterebra....
Greetings

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Very good, Gerard!
You gave me the right tip.

And I found the paper "A contribution to the knowledge of Brazilian Oestridae", by Adolpho Lutz, where an image that is showed in of the plates, made me suppose she is a "Cuterebra apicalis".

The english version (without the plates) you will find here:

http://www.scielo.br/pdf/mioc/v10n2/tomo10%28f2-1%29_118-137.pdf

The three plates, I found only in the Portuguese version, in the end of the paper, just here in this link:
http://memorias.i...94-113.pdf

I would like to know your opinion, so, when you have time, take a look at plate #29, to compare the face you see in my photo with those that the plate shows.

Thank you very much, Gerard!
Regards,
AC

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Lovely fly - and lucky to find one of a group with very very few species! ;)

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Some days, a bit of luck, others, almost none!

Due the color, size and tinnitus, I'm pretty sure that last week there was a fly like this, at the same place where I photographed this one in 2008, but after it overflying the bushes, seeming look for a place to land, ran away without give me chance to photograph it.
Was really a frustating experience, which for a while let me with a feeling of lost.

Thank you, Chris!

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Neotropical Cuterebra are badly in need of a revision.

If I remember correctly, Thomas Pape once wrote about them.

Lutz is 100 years old.


Theo

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Yes, Theo!
From Thomas Pape, I found "Phylogeny of Oestridae".
You can check out here:
http://www.aseanb...011942.pdf

Thank you very much!

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Great !

Then I can have a drink, my memory is still OK


Theo