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Doctor Fly

Diachlorus ferrugatus

Classification

Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Tabanidae

Diachlorus ferrugatus, commonly known as the yellow fly or yellow fly of the dismal swamp in the United States or doctor fly in Belize, is a species of highly aggressive biting horse-fly of the family Tabanidae native to North and Central America to Costa Rica. Taxonomy The yellow fly was described as Chrysops ferrugatus by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1805. Description Adult yellow flies are around 1 centimetre (0.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 568Mexico · 68Brazil · 1