Title
Flesh fly myiasis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) in Pristimantis thectopternus (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Colombia
Author(s)
Gómez-Hoyos, D.A.;Suárez-Joaqui, T.;Marín-Gómez, O.H.
Published
2012
Publisher
Herpetology Notes
Abstract
Parasitism of adult frogs and toads by dipteran larvae has been described in the families Sarcophagidae, Calliphoridae and Chloropidae (Crump and Pounds, 1985; Kraus, 2007), but remains a poorly studied subject of amphibian biology (Hagman et al., 2005). In the Neotropics, only Sarcophagidae is known to cause myiasis in anurans (Travers and Townsend, 2010) including twelve species (seven anuran families) from Panama, Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica and Venezuela (Table 1). Here, we report a new record of myiasis caused by Sarcophagidae in Pristimantis thectopternus (Lynch, 1975) from Colombia.

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