Cuterebra Bot Flies (Diptera: Oestridae) and Their Indigenous Hosts and Potential Hosts in Florida

First Records of Rodent-Infesting Cuterebra Bot Flies Parasitizing Raccoons (Procyon lotor) in North America

“…larvae during pupariation (Sabrosky 1986;Slansky & Kenyon 2003) indicates this process was incomplete. The pupal durations and dates of emergence for these specimens support records indicating that C. fontinella has 2 or more generations per year in the southeastern US (Sabrosky 1986;Durden 1995Durden , 2008Slansky 2006). This species apparently has not been reported previously from Indian River County, although there are records from other eastern counties north (Orange and Volusia) and south (Broward and St. Lucie) of this county (Slansky 2006).…”

First Record of Cuterebra fontinella (Diptera: Oestridae) Larvae Infesting a Florida Rat (Rodentia: Muridae)

“…The pupal durations and dates of emergence for these specimens support records indicating that C. fontinella has 2 or more generations per year in the southeastern US (Sabrosky 1986;Durden 1995Durden , 2008Slansky 2006). This species apparently has not been reported previously from Indian River County, although there are records from other eastern counties north (Orange and Volusia) and south (Broward and St. Lucie) of this county (Slansky 2006).…”

Ectoparasites from small mammals from the Cerrado region in the Minas Gerais state, Brazil

“…This fly is endemic to the New World and is and opportunist endoparasite found mainly on mammals (Guimarães & Papavero 1999). Its larvae leave in the subcutaneous tissues of their hosts for few weeks feeding on body breathing through the hole in the skin of their hosts (Slansky 2006). The larvae from the genus Cuterebra have been previously found on rats and on rabbits (lagomorfos) (Manrique-Saide et al 2000), however here we relate the C. subflavus serving as host for this parasite for the first time.…”

“…In the laboratory mites and fleas were mounted on slides according to the conventional techniques for Acari (Flechtmann 1975) and Siphonaptera (Linardi & Guimarães 2000). Mites were identified following Fonseca (1935Fonseca ( /36, 1939, fleas according to Linardi and Guimarães (2000), ticks according to , lice following Werneck (1942) and Ferris (1951), Dipteran larvae according to Baird (1983), Manrique-Saide et al (2000) and Slansky (2006).…”