Haematobia exigua

Taxobox
name = Buffalo fly
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Calyptratae
superfamilia = Muscoidea
familia = Muscidae
subfamilia = Muscinae
tribus = Stomoxyini
genus = "Haematobia"
species = "H. exigua"
binomial = "Haematobia exigua"
binomial_authority = de Meijere

"Haematobia exigua" or Buffalo fly is a pest fly of the family Muscidae.

In Australia it is present in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.

The entomologist Ian Murray Mackerras did substantial work in trying to eradicate the problem by introducing parasites.

References

* [http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_c/a_634.htm buffalo fly] CSIRO