Whitney's Horse Fly

Merycomyia whitneyi

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tabanidae

Merycomyia whitneyi is a species of deer flies in the family Tabanidae. Larvae are known as sandworms and can be used as fish bait.

Distribution

Whitney's Horse Fly — (c) Thomas Koffel, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Thomas Koffel · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 6

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Thomas Koffel, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Thomas Koffel · CC-BY DescriptionMerycomyia whitneyi, Wikipedia contributors

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