FIRST REPORT OF CHRYSOMYA MEGACEPHALA (DIPTERA: CALLIPHORIDAE) IN NORTHWESTERN ARGENTINA

MARÍA S. OLEA, MARÍA J. DANTUR JURI, NÉSTOR CENTENO

FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGICAL SOC

Año: 2011 vol. 94 p. 345 - 346

0015-4040

The Calliphoridae family comprises around 150 genera and more than 1000 species distributed world wide (Hennig 1973; Pont 1980; Shewell 1987). Chrysomya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is an especially important genus because its species are reported as invaders in South America (Guimaraes et al. 1978), and they are involved in the transmission of enteric bacteria, protozoa and helminths (Greenberg 1973). These species can act as dispersers of disease because their special feeding habits, which include human food products and human or animal faeces (Bohart & Gressit 1951; Zumpt 1965). In subtropical and tropical Africa and Asia the old world screwworm, Chrysomya bezziana Villeneuve is an obligate parasite of mammals (Southerst et al. 1989).Chrysomya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is an especially important genus because its species are reported as invaders in South America (Guimaraes et al. 1978), and they are involved in the transmission of enteric bacteria, protozoa and helminths (Greenberg 1973). These species can act as dispersers of disease because their special feeding habits, which include human food products and human or animal faeces (Bohart & Gressit 1951; Zumpt 1965). In subtropical and tropical Africa and Asia the old world screwworm, Chrysomya bezziana Villeneuve is an obligate parasite of mammals (Southerst et al. 1989).