Abstract
The paper reports on new records of representatives of the families Hypodermatidae and Oestridae collected as imagines in Poland in 1996–2006. The data are supplemented with observations on the behaviour of imagines and information concerning their world distribution and known hosts. The paper contains color photographs of three species: Hypoderma Diana, Cephenemyia ulrichii and Pharyngomyia picta.
Highlights
Flies of the superfamily Oestroidea are very important in medical and veterinary sciences
Adults of Oestroidea are aphagic and mostly short living: only inseminated females of bot-flies spend about three weeks motionless in crevices of walls or other hiding places (Colwell et al 2006). During this time the developing larvae become full-grown and in the favourable weather are injected into the nostrils or eyes of the host animal (Draber-Mońko 1978)
All members of family Oestridae develop in the nasopharyngeal cavities, mainly of Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla
Summary
Flies of the superfamily Oestroidea are very important in medical and veterinary sciences. Adults of Oestroidea are aphagic (their mouthparts are rudimental) and mostly short living: only inseminated females of bot-flies spend about three weeks motionless in crevices of walls or other hiding places (Colwell et al 2006). During this time the developing larvae become full-grown and in the favourable weather are injected into the nostrils or eyes of the host animal (Draber-Mońko 1978). Gasterophilus) belong to obligatory parasites with a fairly limited specificity and associated mainly with one type of host, e.g. Hypoderma bovis (L.) with cattle These parasites are rarely found in other animals or in man (Draber-Mońko 2001). The present paper aims to summarize the records, known to us, of adult stages of Hypodermatidae and Oestridae collected in Poland during the last two decades
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