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Booponus

Booponus is a genus of blow flies in the family Calliphoridae. Most species are endoparasites of large mammals.

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Booponus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Auchmeromyiinae
Genus: Booponus
Aldrich, 19231
Type species
Booponus intonsus
Aldrich, 19231
Synonyms
  • Elephantoloemus Austen, 19302
  • Pavlovskiomyia Grunin, 19473

Booponus is a genus of blow flies in the family Calliphoridae. Most species are endoparasites of large mammals.124

Species

  • Booponus aldrichi Senior-White, 19405
  • Booponus borealis Rohdendorf, 19596
  • Booponus indicus (Austen, 1930)2
  • Booponus inexspectatus (Grunin, 1947)3
  • Booponus intonsus Aldrich, 19231
  • Booponus malayana Kurahashi, Benjaphong & Omar, 19977
References

References

  1. Aldrich, J. M. (1923). "A new genus and species of fly reared from the hoof of the carabao". Philippine Journal of Science. 22: 141–142. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  2. Austen, E. E. (1930). "On a new dipterous parasite (family Calliphoridae, subfamily Calliphorinae) of the Indian elephant, with notes on other dipterous parasites of elephants". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 100 (3). The Zoological Society of London: 677–688. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1930.tb00993.x.
  3. Grunin, K. Ya. (1947). "Pavlovskiomyia inexspectata gen. n. sp. n. (Diptera, Calliphoridae)". Parazit. Sb. 9: 183–190.
  4. Austen, E. E. (1932). "The last larval stage of Elephantolaemus indicus Austen (Diptera, family Calliphoridae, subfamily Calliphorinae), a subcutaneous parasite of the Indian elephant". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 100 (4): 869–871. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb01567.x.
  5. Senior-White, R.A.; Aubertin, D.; Smart, J. (1940). Sewell, R.B.S. (ed.). Diptera. Vol. VI. Family Calliphoridae. The fauna of British India, including the remainder of the Oriental Region. Taylor & Francis, Ltd., London. pp. xii + 288. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  6. Rohdendorf, B. B. (1959). "Booponus borealis, sp. n. (Diptera, Calliphoridae), a new parasite of Siberian Red Deer (Cervus elaphus sibiricus Sev.) in southern Siberia". Ent. Obozr (in Russian). 38: 583–589.
  7. Kurahashi, H.; Bonjaphong, N.; Omar, B. (1997). "Blow flies (Insecta: Diptera: Calliphoridae) of Malaysia and Singapore". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 5: 1–88.