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    Bengalia is a genus of blow flies in the family Calliphoridae with one authority considering the genus to belong to a separate family Bengaliidae. These...
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    Horsfield, [1829] Edales pandava Chilades pandava Catochrysops nicola Swinhoe, 1885 Catochrysops bengalia de Nicéville, 1885 Catochrysops vapanda Semper, 1890...
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    with robber flies (Asilidae), or Crematogaster ants. Flies in the genus Bengalia (Calliphoridae) steal food and pupae transported by ants and are often...
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    Melipona) use chemical defences against ants. Flies in the Old World genus Bengalia (Calliphoridae) prey on ants and are kleptoparasites, snatching prey or...
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    almost the sole contributing author. In 2005, Lehrer reclassified the genus Bengalia into 11 new genera in 4 subfamilies within a newly designated family, Bengaliidae...
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    prey or laying their eggs into them. Phorids, milichids and the genus Bengalia are known to steal food carried by ants. Adults of Ephydra hians forage...
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    Auchmeromyia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891 Bellardia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Booponus Aldrich, 1923 Boreellus Aldrich & Shannon...
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    Calliphoridae, or blow flies. Auchmeromyia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891 Bengalia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Booponus Aldrich, 1923 Coganomyia Dear, 1977 Cordylobia...
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  • scavengers or predators in ant nests. Adults of many species of the genus Bengalia are kleptoparasitic on ants and will snatch food and pupae being carried...
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  • mallochi Plecia rufilatera Bengalia bezzii Bengalia fuscipennis Bengalia hastativentris Bengalia jejuna Bengalia obscuripennis Bengalia torosa Borbororhinia...
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