- Cobboldia
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Cobboldia 
Larvae of Cobboldia from autopsy of an Asian Elephant stomach Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Family: Oestridae Subfamily: Gasterophilinae Genus: Cobboldia
Brauer, 1887Species Cobboldia is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Oestridae. Cobboldia elephantis and Cobboldia loxodontis (=Platycobboldia loxodontis, the blue elephant stomach bot fly) adults lay their eggs near the mouth or base of the tusks of Asian and African elephants, respectively. The larvae hatch and develop in the mouth cavity and later move to the stomach. On maturing, the third instar larvae exit from the mouth and drop to the ground to pupate.[1] A fossil species Cobboldia russanovi is known from the frozen remains of Mammoths. Cobboldia roverei Gedoelst, 1915 (=Rodhainommia roverei, the green elephant stomach bot fly) has been noted from the African Forest Elephant.[2]
The genus is named after Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828 - 1886).
Notes
- ^ Murray E. Fowler, Susan K. Mikota (Eds) (2006). Elephant biology, medicine, and surgery. Blackwell Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-8138-0676-1.
- ^ John M. Kinsella, Sharon L. Deem, Stephen Blake, and Andrea S. Freeman (2004). "Endoparasites of African Forest Elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) from the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic" (PDF). Comparative Parasitology 71 (2): 104–110. doi:10.1654/4131. http://www.wcs.org/media/file/Kinsellaetal2004.pdf.
References
- Grunin, K.Y. 1973. The first finding of the stomach bot-fly larvae of the mammoth: Cobboldia (Mamontia, subgen. n.) russanovi, sp. nov. (Diptera, Gasterophilidae). Entomol. Obozr. 52: 228-33. [English translation, 1973, Entomol. Rev. 52(1): 165-69.]
- Pont, A. (1976) The date and author of Cobboldia elephantis (Diptera: Gasterophilidae). Zeitschrschrift fur Angewandte Zoologie 63: 23
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