Diptera Brachycera horse parasites in a stable/manège in northern Italy.
The presence of tabanids and muscoid fly (Diptera Brachycera) parasites of horses in a stable/manège near Verona (Northern Italy) is reported. Tabanus quatuornotatus, T. glaucopis, T. exclusus, Hybomitra muehlfeldi, Haematopota pandazisi, Stomoxys calcitrans and Haematobia irritans were the blood-sucking species directly found on horses. Musca domestica, Ophyra sp. and Fannia canicularis were the flies most frequently collected by sticky traps in the stable.
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Experimental Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy. trentini@alma.unibo.it
D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000145:classification; D005260:Female; D006736:Horses / Q000469:parasitology*; D006793:Houseflies; D006799:Housing, Animal; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D009117:Muscidae; D012621:Seasons