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Muscle attachment sites of Phormia regina (Meigen)

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An error was found in a previous publication on muscle attachment sites in forensically important blowfly larvae from 2012. The patterns we assigned to Lucilia illustris factually belong to Phormia regina.

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  1. Department Forensic Entomology, University Hospital Jena, Institute of Legal Medicine, Jena, Thueringen, Germany

    Senta Niederegger & Roland Spiess

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Niederegger, S., Spiess, R. Muscle attachment sites of Phormia regina (Meigen). Parasitol Res 113, 4313–4314 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-014-4146-8

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