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Stomoxys (was: Tachnid fly?)
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 Hi
Can anybody please ID? It was smaller than a housefly, around 6-7mm long. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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 No, Muscidae, genus Stomoxys, species level impossible by this photo
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 Thanks for the quick reply.
Below are 2 more pictures. I hope they help
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 Regarding very wide frons and abdominal patterns it is cosmopolitan
S. cf. calcitrans
 
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