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Hello everybody,

this is my first thread in this forum, so I´ll write some words about me. I´m studying veterinary medicine in germany and I´m interested in exotic animal medicine. In this case an adult tarantula (Brachypelma annitha) was infected by nematodes and died suddenly. Around this tarantula some larvae could be found. I tried to incubate them, but I have been in vacation and the larvae just pupated and somehow stopped their ontogenesis. In theraphosid medicine phorids are in suspicion to be vektors for nematode infections. Anyway, maybe you can help me with some ID. Here the larvae & pupae I found:





This is another case. Here we got an adult Aphonopelma calchodes. On the body surface I could collect some spoon-looking eggs of something. Maybe this could be phorids too?





Sorry for bad quality...

Regards
Mark