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Cacoxenus indagator is a species of fruit fly. [1] It is a kleptoparasite, laying its eggs in the pollen-filled nest cells of mason bees. [2] On account of its ability to break out of those cells once hatched, it is commonly known as the Houdini fly. [3] [4]
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