The moose throat bot fly Cephenemyia ulrichii larvae (Diptera: Oestridae) found developing in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) for the first time

About fifty larvae of Cephenemyia ulrichii Brauer (Diptera: Oestridae), some of them nearly full-grown third instars, were found in the throat of a roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in June 2007 near Helsinki in Finland. The parasite is considered to be host specific, occurring only in the moose (Alces...

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Published in:Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Main Authors: Nilssen, Arne C, Isomursu, Marja, Oksanen, Antti
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2008
Subjects:
Brief Communication
The Throat
Alces alces
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440746
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18518973
https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-50-14
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Summary:About fifty larvae of Cephenemyia ulrichii Brauer (Diptera: Oestridae), some of them nearly full-grown third instars, were found in the throat of a roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in June 2007 near Helsinki in Finland. The parasite is considered to be host specific, occurring only in the moose (Alces alces), and this paper is apparently the first report of a successful infestation in an aberrant host.

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