Sheep Nasal Bot Fly
S6, Female, Face
Sheep Nasal Bot Fly
S6, Female, Wing Venation
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| Sheep Nasal Bot Fly S6, Female, Face | | Sheep Nasal Bot Fly S6, Female, Wing Venation | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Bot Fly (Oestridae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Sheep Nasal Bot Fly (Oestrus ovis)| This Photo: | 🔍S6, Female, Pronotum, profile🔎 | Thank you Dr Chris Lambkin for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~11mm to ~11.5mm long. Males have a much narrow frons (eyes closer together, but not touching) than the females shown here. Notice the difference amount of black between the species. Generally it looks like S6 is very pale compared to most images on line. Perhaps freshly molted? These have a very rounded face (pug like) and a non-functioning mouth parts; the adults don't feed and are short lived.
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