Booponus

Booponus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Calliphorinae
Genus: Booponus
Aldrich, 1923[1]
Type species
Booponus intonsus
Aldrich, 1923[1]
Synonyms
  • Elephantolaemus (Austen, 1930)[2]
  • Pavlovskiomyia (Grunin, 1947)[3]

Booponus is a genus of blow flies in the family Calliphoridae. Most species are endoparasites of large mammals.[1][2][4]

Species

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Aldrich, J. M. (1923). "A new genus and species of fly reared from the hoof of the carabao.". The Philippine journal of science (Philippine Department of Science and Technology) 22: 141–142.
  2. 1 2 3 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 (The Zoological Society of London) 1930: 677–688.
  3. 1 2 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 (The Zoological Society of London) 1932.
  5. Senior-White, R.A.; Aubertin, D.; Smart, J. (1940). Diptera. Family Calliphoridae. In: Sewell, R.B.S., ed., The fauna of British India, including the remainder of the Oriental Region. Diptera. Vol. VI. (Family Calliphoridae). Taylor & Francis, Ltd., London. pp. xii + 288.
  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: 88.
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