by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 25, 2014
SARCOPHAGIDAE Sarcophagid flies, flesh flies, resemble large house flies. Very typically, the adults have grey longitudinal stripes on their backs and grey and black checkered abdomens. The larvae of many species are parasites of invertebrates, but others are carrion...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 25, 2014
Cordylobia anthropophaga HISTORY: The larvae of the African tumbu fly, Cordylobiaanthropophaga, were first discovered by Coquerel and Mondière in 1862 in Senegal in both humans and dogs. The adult fly was unknown to them (Zumpt, 1965). It was not until 1893 that...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 25, 2014
Chrysomya bezziana Villeneuve (Figures 4-55 and 4-56) ETYMOLOGY:Chryso = gold + myia = fly; along with bezziana for Dr. Bezzi HISTORY: In 1910, Dr. Rovere described several cases of traumatic myiasis in cattle from the Congo. He sent some of the adults he reared to a...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 25, 2014
Cochliomyiahominivorax (Coquerel, 1858) Cochliomyiahominivorax, the New World screwworm, is indiscriminant in its choice of hosts, and cats will be infested by this fly. The female lays batches of eggs in rows on the edge of any small would in the skin,...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 25, 2014
Phaenicia (Lucilia) caesar (Linnaeus) This bluish-green blow fly is restricted to Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Typically, the larvae develop in decaying meat, but it has been occasionally reported from animals and humans in Europe. Supperer and Hinaidy reported an...
