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Molecular methods can be an alternative to morphology-based identification and find special application when only tiny pieces of specimens are available especially in cases of human myiasis. In this preliminary study, we explored the utility of mitochondrial COI gene based molecular method, for identifying immature stages of certain medically important flies captured from the field in Puducherry, India. Maggots were captured from different locations in Puducherry using rotten fish and kitchen waste as baits and a 700 bp segment of the COI gene was amplified and genetic relationship was assessed by performing haplotype network analysis. High quality sequences were available for 11 specimens and were subjected to BLAST analysis to identify matches from the database for identification of the species. The identified maggots belonged to\n                    <jats:italic>Sarcophaga peregrina<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830),\n                    <jats:italic>Hemipyrellia ligurriens<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Wiedemann, 1830) and\n                    <jats:italic>Chrysomya megacephala<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Fabricius, 1794). This study generated representative molecular sequence data for two less studied fly species of medical importance,\n                    <jats:italic>S. peregrina<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>H. ligurriens<\/jats:italic>\n                    from South India. 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