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Fly Pirates
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Fly Pirates

Bengalia

Bengalia is a genus of blow flies in the family Calliphoridae with one authority considering the genus to belong to a separate family Bengaliidae. These bristly and, unlike the greens and blues of most calliphorids, dull coloured flies, are especially noted for their relationship to ants. Little is known of their biology and life-cycle, although adults of many species are kleptoparasitic on ants and will snatch food and pupae being carried by ants or feed on...

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19 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Bengalia escheri

speciesBengalia escheri

Bengalia torosa

speciesBengalia torosa

Bengalia emdeniella

speciesBengalia emdeniella

Bengalia chekiangensis

speciesBengalia chekiangensis

Bengalia calilungae

speciesBengalia calilungae

Bengalia arawakia

speciesBengalia arawakia

Bengalia racovitzai

speciesBengalia racovitzai

Bengalia spinifemorata

speciesBengalia spinifemorata

Bengalia vicina

speciesBengalia vicina

Bengalia walkeriana

speciesBengalia walkeriana

Bengalia croceipalpis

speciesBengalia croceipalpis

Bengalia cuthbertsoni

speciesBengalia cuthbertsoni

Bengalia floccosa

speciesBengalia floccosa

Bengalia gaillardi

speciesBengalia gaillardi

Bengalia fani

speciesBengalia fani

Bengalia smarti

speciesBengalia smarti

Bengalia fuscipennis

speciesBengalia fuscipennis

Bengalia peuhi

speciesBengalia peuhi

Termite Pirate

speciesBengalia depressa

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 83732.