Liverfluke Snail Predator Fly

Sepedomerus macropus

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae

Sepedomerus macropus, the liverfluke snail predator fly, is a species of marsh fly native to the American tropics and subtropics. Larvae of this species are predators of lymnaeid pond snails, which are vectors of the liver fluke Fasciola gigantica. S.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionSepedomerus macropus, Wikipedia contributors

Liverfluke Snail Predator Fly

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