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A new Species of Warble-fly (Diptera—Family Tachinidae, Subfamily Hypoderminae, Genus Hypoderma), which attacks Goats in Cyprus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

E. E. Austen
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Adult insects belonging to the genus Hypoderma, all species of which in their larval stages are parasitic in Ungulates, fall naturally into two groups. In the first of these, represented by Hypoderma bovis, De G., H. lineatum, Vill., and H. diana, Br., the body is conspicuously hairy, and the dorsum of the main portion of the thorax (scutum) is marked with a series of shining black, raised stripes or longitudinal wheals. In the second group, to which belong H. silenus, Br., H. crossi, Patton, H. corinnae, Crivelli, and doubtless also H. aegagri, Br., the hairy covering of the body is sparser and less noticeable, and the dorsum of the thorax is devoid of the markings just mentioned. The species to be described below forms an addition to the second group.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , September 1931 , pp. 423 - 429
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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References

* For names and illustrations of colours used for descriptive purposes in the present paper, see Ridgway, “ Color Standards and Color Nomenclature ” (Washington, D.C. Published by the Author, 1912).Google Scholar

* Patton, (The Indian Journal of Medical Research, x, p. 573, 1922)Google Scholar, in the title of the paper in which this species is described, speaks of it as parasitic in its larval stages in cattle as well as goats in the Punjab, but in the body of the paper no evidence is adduced to prove that the warblefly of Punjab cattle is actually Hypoderma crossi.

* The length of the adult ♀ (20 mm.) as given by Larrousse is obviously incorrect, especially seeing that this author (t. cit., p. 218) states that the fly is “ un Hypoderma de très petite taille.”

* Monographie der Oestriden, pp. 134–135, Taf. viii, figs. 9, 9a, 1863. This species, based by its author on the 3rd stage larva only, was described from material obtained in the menagerie at Schönbrunn, Austria, in February and June, from ibexes (Capra aegagrus, Erxl.) newly arrived from Crete. The actual description is not preceded by a specific name, which however appears subsequently in the index (op. cit., p. 281).