Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gvvz8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T05:55:12.854Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Wohlfahrtia (Diptera, Metopiidae) Myiasis of Mink in Alberta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

E. H. Strickland
E. H. Strickland
Affiliation:
Professor of Entomology, University of Alberta
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In nearly every year our attention is drawn to one or more cases of human myiasis in various places in Alberta. Unfortunately, in every instance where these have concerned infants, the larvae had already been removed and placed in alcohol. We have submitted a number of these larvae co Dr. E. M. Walker, at Toronto University for determination. He has not cared to commit himself by identifying first instar larvae but he classified all specimens which were in the 2nd or 3rd instar as species of Wohlfahrtia. He, further, suggested that they might be meigenii Coq. At the time when he identified them for us, it was believed that this species, though described from Europe, did occur in Western Canada.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , March 1949 , pp. 58 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1949

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1.Walker, E. M., Journ. Parasit., Vols. 7 & 9, 1920 & 1922.Google Scholar
2.Ford, N., Journ. Parasit., Vols. 19 & 22, 1932 & 1936.Google Scholar
3.Morrison, F. O., Can. Ent., Vol. 69, 1937.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4.Aldrich, J.Sarcophaga and Allies, Vol. I, 1916.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
5.Kingscote, A. A., Ont. Vet. Col., Rept. for 1934.Google Scholar