. Handbook of medical entomology. Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease; Medical parasitology. The MuscidcB 117 Muscidae The following Muscidae, characterized elsewhere, deserve special mention under our present grouping of parasitic species. Other important species will be considered as facultative para- sites. Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable-fly, or the biting house- fly, is often confused with Musca domestica and therefore is discussed especially in our consideration of the latter species as an accidental carrier of disease. Its possible relation to the spread of infantile paralysis
. Handbook of medical entomology. Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease; Medical parasitology. The MuscidcB 117 Muscidae The following Muscidae, characterized elsewhere, deserve special mention under our present grouping of parasitic species. Other important species will be considered as facultative para- sites. Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable-fly, or the biting house- fly, is often confused with Musca domestica and therefore is discussed especially in our consideration of the latter species as an accidental carrier of disease. Its possible relation to the spread of infantile paralysis is also con- sidered later. The tsetse flies, belonging to the genus Glossina, are African species of blood-sucking Muscidas which have attracted much attention because of their rdle in trans- ^^'p^^Saeto- ^tting various trypanosome diseases of man and animals. Sa'^Aftlr 1'^^y ^^6 characterized in Chapter XII and are also Smith ^™" discussed in connection with the diseases which they convey. Chrysomyia macellaria, ( = Compsomyia), the "screw worm"-fly is one of the most important species of flies directly affecting man, in North America. It is not normally parasitic, however, and hence win be considered with other facultative parasites in Chapter IV. Auchmeromyia lute- ola, the Congo floor maggot. This is a muscid of grewsome habits, which has a wide distribution throughout Africa. The fly (fig. 86) deposits its eggs on the ground of the huts of the natives. The whitish larvae (fig. 85) on hatch- ing are slightly flat- tened ventraUy, and each . segment bears posteriorly three foot- pads transversely arranged. At night the larvs find their way into the low beds or couches of the natives and suck their blood. The adult flies do not bite man and, as far as known, the larvae do not play any rdle in the transmission of sleeping sickness or other Auchmeromyia luteola (x4). After Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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