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Hypoderma diana (Diptera, Oestridae) and Lipoptena cervi (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) as parasites of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in Scotland with notes on the second-stage larva of Hypoderma diana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

D. S. Kettle  and
M. N. P. Utsi
D. S. Kettle
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, West Mains Road, Edinburgh 9
M. N. P. Utsi
Affiliation:
Technical Adviser of the Reindeer Council of the U.K. and Managing Director of the Reindeer Co. Ltd.
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Some of the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) introduced into Scotland from Northern Sweden have become infested with the deer warble fly Hypoderma diana and the deer ked Lipoptena cervi.

Evidence is presented which suggests that the larvae of H. diana proceed to their final site on the back of the host by way of the neural canal, and in this way probably caused the deaths of two reindeer in the winter of 1953–4.

A detailed analysis is presented of the frequency with which various bands of spines occurred on second-stage larvae of H. diana. An analysis of the number of chitinous rings in the two posterior spiracles on second-stage H. diana larvae showed that in any individual larva the two numbers were not independently determined.

On reindeer L. cervi produced puparia in December.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 45 , Issue 1-2 , May 1955 , pp. 116 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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