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Intestinal Myiasis of a Human Caused by Maggots of the Flesh-fly, Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis (Fin.) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), in Southwestern Ontario

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. W. Judd
W. W. Judd
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
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During August of 1955 a farmer, 35 years old, in Metcalfe Township, Middlesex County, Ontario repeatedly passed living maggots in feces during bowel movements. Four of these maggots were received by the writer on August 30, 1955 and were placed in an inch of damp soil in a screen-covered jar. On September 13 two sarcophagid flies, one male and one female, emerged from the soil and on September 14 two more males emerged. They were examined by Mr. G. E. Shewell, Systematic Entomology, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, who identified them as Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis (Fln.). The four specimens are deposited in the collection of the Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , March 1956 , pp. 117 - 118
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1956

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