Subfamily
Oestrinae (Nose bot flies)
Cephenemyia jellisoni. Photo: (c) Mickey Long, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Oestrinae is a subfamily of Oestridae which includes parasitic flies attacking a range of different hosts. There are 9 genera with 34 species in this subfamily, which typically spend their larval stage in the skin or soft tissues of mammals, including deer or sheep (such species are often considered pests).
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