by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 25, 2014
Dermatobiahominis (Linnaeus, 1781) (Figure 5-70) ETYMOLOGY:Dermato = skin + obia = way of living and hominis for the choice of human hosts. Common names include the human botfly, tropical warble fly, beef worm, bekuru, bikuru, berne, borro, colmoyte, forcel, gusano...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 25, 2014
Cuterebra species (Figures 4-57 through 4-) ETYMOLOGY:Cutis = skin and terebro = to bore. HISTORY: The genus Cuterebra was first described by Bracy Clark in 1815; however, the first published record is that of John Lawson (1709) in his book "A New Voyage to Carolina"...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 25, 2014
CUTERIBRIDAE This is a family of flies that occurs only in the Americas. All species of this group ae obligate primary myisais producers that have maggot stages that make extensive migrations through the tissues of the intermediate host. These larvae appear most...
