HIPPOBOSCIDM 



Family Hippoboscid^. 



Pupipara with horny flattened heads and bodies, and with one jointed 

 antenna furnished with a terminal arista. The first joint of the tarsus is 

 usually abbreviated in all, but certainly in the first two legs. 



Wings may be well developed, or rudimentary, 

 or entirely absent. 



This family is composed of forms parasitic 

 on mammals, and includes the following genera : 

 Hippobosca Linnaeus, 1761; Allobosca Speiser, 

 1902; Olfersia Wiedemann, 1830; Ortholfersia ; 

 Pseudolfersia Coquillett; Lipoptena Nitzsch, 

 1 81 8; M elop hagus L.a±reille, 1802; Ornithoctona 

 Speiser, 1902; Lynchia Weyenberg. 1881; and 

 Ornithomyia Latreille, 1802. 



Hippobosca is parasitic on cattle, horses, 

 dogs, etc., all over the world; Allobosca is 

 parasitic on lemurs in Madagascar ; Ortholfersia 

 on kangaroos in Australia; Lipoptena on deer 

 all over the world; and Melophagus on sheep. 



Hippobosca rufipes von Olfers is thought to 

 be capable of transmitting Trypanosoma theileri. 



Fig. 448.- -Larva and Pupa of Hippobosca Fig. 449. — Head of Hip- 

 rufipes VON Olfers. (X4.) pobosca rufipes : F'emai.'e. 



Hippobosca equina Linnaeus is known on horses in the New Forest, England ; 

 Hippobosca capensis Leach on dogs in Africa, India, Persia, and South Europe; 

 H. camelina L.ea.ch. 3.nd H. maculata Leach are found in the Sudan and Egypt; 

 and in addition to these Melophagus ovinus Linnaeus is found all over the world, 



REFERENCES. 

 General. 



Austen (1906). British Blood-Sucking Flies. 

 Austen (1907). Blood-Sucking Flies, Ticks, etc. 



Austen (1909). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series viii., iii. 285 . 



(Descriptions of Lyperosia, Stygeromyia, Haematobia, Bdellolarynx, 



Stomoxys, Philaematomyia.) 

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 Grunberg (1907). Die Blutsaugenden Dipteren. Jena, 

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