Hypoderma tarandi: Difference between revisions

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| synonyms = ''Oedemagena tarandi''<br>''Oestrus tarandi''

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[[File:Ice-bound on Kolguev - a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island (1895) (14595270719).jpg|thumb|A reindeer herd in [[Kolguyev Island]] in 1895. The caption reads: "We entered today on a new phase of reindeer life. For the first time the fly appeared ''(Hypoderma tarandi)'', known to the [[Samoyeds]] as ''Pi-liur'', and to the Russians as ''Orwot.'']]

'''''Hypoderma tarandi''''', also known as '''reindeer warble fly''' and '''caribou bot fly''',<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600172/ Emerging infectious diseases - Human Ophthalmomyiasis Interna Caused by Hypoderma tarandi, Northern Canada]</ref> is a species of [[warble fly]] that is [[parasitism|parasitic]] on [[reindeer]].<ref>Chillcott, in Stone et al., 1965, Catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico, p. 1112.</ref>