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Brontaea
Sign in to saveBrontaea is a genus of house flies, insects in the family Muscidae. There are about five described species in Brontaea.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Muscidae
- Collections
- FMNH, AM, USNM, MZLU
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Nepal
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Brontaea is a genus of house flies, insects in the family Muscidae. There are about five described species in Brontaea.
==Species== These five species belong to the genus Brontaea: Brontaea cilifera (Malloch, 1920) i Brontaea debilis (Williston, 1896) i Brontaea delecta b Brontaea humilis (Zetterstedt, 1860) i b Brontaea quadristigma (Thomson, 1869) i Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
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