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  • You may wish to know that the more common name for the "gadfly" in farming and veterinary circles is the "warble fly" - Hypoderma bovis or Hypoderma lineata.

    Gadflies Richard 2004

  • The young maggot of Hypoderma (fig. 22 _e_) is elongate and slender, spends its first two stages burrowing in the gullet wall and then wandering through the dorsal tissues of its host; ultimately it arrives beneath the skin of the back and assumes for its third and fourth instars a broad barrel-like form (fig. 22 _b_).

    The Life-Story of Insects 1902

  • The Bot-fly of the Horse (_Gastrophilus equi_) and the Warble-fly of the Ox (_Hypoderma bovis_, fig. 22) lay eggs attached to the hairs of grazing animals, which, at least in the case of

    The Life-Story of Insects 1902

  • Ox Warble-fly (_Hypoderma bovis_) with egg, larva, and puparium 75 23.

    The Life-Story of Insects 1902

  • -- The larvæ of a fly (probably _Hypoderma lineata_, whose larvæ in the skin of cattle are commonly known as "warbles") are occasionally found in little sacs beneath the skin of horses.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • The Bot fly of the ox (Hypoderma bovis, Fig. 81, and larva), is black and densely hairy, and the thorax is banded with yellow and white.

    Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

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