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A CASE OF URINOGENITAL MYIASIS CAUSED BY LARVAE OF ANISOPUS FENESTRALIS (DIPTERA: ANISOPIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ray F. Morris*
Affiliation:
Research Station, St. John's West, Newfoundland

Extract

A sample of larvae submitted to us for identification on 22 November 1967 by Dr. C. Hutton, Director, Diagnostic Laboratories, Janeway Child Health Centre, St. John's, was determined as Anisopus fenestralis (Scopol.) by Dr. H. J. Teskey, Ottawa.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1968

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Footnotes

1

Contribution No. 15 of the Research Station.

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