Wohlfahrtia pachytyli is a species of flesh fly in the family Sarcophagidae. This fly is a parasite of the brown locust, Locustana pardalina; the fly deposits larvae on late-instar hoppers and adult fledglings, generally targeting them as they shed old skin (ecdysis).Price, R. E., & Brown, H. D. (2006). The status of the locust fly, Wohlfahrtia pachytyli (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), in the Karoo and the impact of locust control operations on its abundance. African Entomology, 14(1), 35-43. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC32674
Range South Africa, Angola & Namibia.
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