Booponus

Booponus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Calliphorinae
Genus: Booponus
Type species
Booponus intonsus
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

  • Booponus aldrichi Senior-White, 1940[5]
  • Booponus borealis Rohdendorf, 1959[6]
  • Booponus indicus (Austen, 1930)[2]
  • Booponus inexspectatus (Grunin, 1947)[3]
  • Booponus intonsus Aldrich, 1923[1]
  • Booponus malayana Kurahashi, Benjaphong & Omar, 1997[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Aldrich, J. M. (1923). "A new genus and species of fly reared from the hoof of the carabao". Philippine Journal of Science. 22: 141–142. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  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. 100 (3): 677–688. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1930.tb00993.x.
  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. 100 (4): 869–871. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb01567.x.
  5. Senior-White, R.A.; Aubertin, D.; Smart, J. (1940). Sewell, R.B.S., ed. Diptera. Vol. VI. Family Calliphoridae. The fauna of British India, including the remainder of the Oriental Region. Taylor & Francis, Ltd., London. pp. xii + 288. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  6. Rohdendorf, B. B. (1959). "Siberian Red Deer". 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: 1–88.
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