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The kleptoparasitic habits of Musca albina Wiedemann, 1830 (Diptera: Muscidae)

African Invertebrates (2013) 54(2) 427-430
DOI: 10.5733/afin.054.0221
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Musca albina is reported as kleptoparasitic on dung-rolling scarab beetles in Namibia, where female flies were observed following dung-rolling Scarabaeus damarensis and ovipositing in partially buried dung balls. This is a first record of kleptoparasitism in the Muscidae.

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Marshall, S. A., & Pont, A. C. (2013). The kleptoparasitic habits of Musca albina Wiedemann, 1830 (Diptera: Muscidae). African Invertebrates, 54(2), 427–430. https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.054.0221

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