Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Hippoboscid in Turdus philomelos

Posted by Rui Andrade on 21-06-2008 17:50
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This hippoboscid was found today (21/06/2008) in Avintes, Portugal. Is it identifiable? It carries with him what I think are phoretic mites, or could they be parasitic?

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