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Case Reports
. 2008 Jun 2;50(1):14.
doi: 10.1186/1751-0147-50-14.

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

Arne C Nilssen  1 , Marja Isomursu, Antti Oksanen
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The moose throat bot fly Cephenemyia ulrichii larvae (Diptera: Oestridae) found developing in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) for the first time

Arne C Nilssen et al. Acta Vet Scand. .

Abstract

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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Figure 1
Cephenemyia ulrichii third instar larvae from roe deer Capreolus capreolus, dorsal view. Note irregular rows of spines on the anterior dorsal side. Anterior end is the thicker one.
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Figure 2
Cephenemyia ulrichii third instar larvae from roe deer Capreolus capreolus, ventral view. Note the more regular rows on the anterior ventral side.
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