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Acroceridae larva?
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Posted on 25-10-2011 07:03
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I found a spider a few days ago in France. It turned out it had a parasite inside, which crawled out a day later.

I assume it is an Acroceridae species, am I correct?

I posted more pictures of it on a german spider forum: http://spinnen-fo...pic=9143.0
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Hi Frits,

Acroceridae larvae is right. The adult fly should emerge in a couple of days. Please keep the spider remnants and the adult fly. I would be happy to ID the fly for you, and produce DNA barcodes for both fly and spider to strengthen this host-parasitoid relationship. So far the genera Acrocera and Ogcodes have been recorded from Amaurobius. Great observation and great pictures.

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Hi Christian,

Thanks for the confirmation. I will contact you through PM when the fly has emerged. It would be nice to know what species the spider was also.

Frits
 
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Last night, the fly emerged from its cocoon. Could it Acrocera orbiculus?
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Acrocera orbiculus should be correct.
 
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