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First North American Record of Bufolucilia silvarum (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Parasitizing Bufo terrestris americanus Holbrook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. Sherman Bleakney
J. Sherman Bleakney
Affiliation:
Nova Scotia Museum of Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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In European countries parasitism of toads by flies of the genus Bufolucilia is of rather common occurence. Although the species silvarum is holarctic in distribution, Hall (1947) considers it “not a common species” in North America. At the time of his publication it had been reported from only one species of North American anuran, the Bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, when forty-eight parasitized frogs of this species were discovered near Franklin, California. Since then, reference to the species in the literature seems to be limited to reports of the adult flies (James, 1953; Schoof, et al., 1956; and Judd, 1956).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , January 1963 , pp. 107
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1963

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