Seasonal Distributions of External Myiasis Flies Determined in Diyarbakır Province

Abstract

This study was carried out in Diyarbakır city center, and Silvan, Ergani, Çınar, Lice town between in January 2008-December 2009. In order to gather the fl ies, then to capture and then to kill them, the odour bait traps were used. 6581 fl ies were caught from traps in total. The fl ies were identified in the laboratory according to their morphological characteristics and it was seen that 5424 (82.43%) of the fl ies were Lucilia sericata, 833 (12.65%) were Calliphora vicina, 222 (3.38%) Chrysomyia albiceps, 93 (1.42%) were Calliphora vomitoria, 3 (0.04%) were Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis, 3 (0.04%) were Sarcophaga argyrostoma and 3 (0.04%) were S. sarcophaga carnaria. It was determined that 5186 (78.80%) of the total number of fl ies were female and 1395 (21.20%) were male. Females and males of all the species, except males of Sarcophaga argyrostoma and Sarcophaga carnaria, were detected. Flies did not appear in January, December and August in both years. The fl ies appeared at highest rate in April 2008 (48.43%) and in April 2009 (45.64%) respectively.

Traumatic Myiasis in Wild Animals in Türkiye; First Report Myiasis Euphrates Soft-Shelled Turtle (<em>Rafetus euphraticus</em>) and Wild Goat (<em>Capra aegagrus</em>)

“…C. vomitoria larvae, which are the causative agent of tertiary myiasis, are rarely encountered in traumatic myiasis cases [5]. Myiasis cases caused by these two Calliphora species in December and April can be explained by the fact that these flies are densely seen in the region during these months [35]. Traumatic myiasis cases caused by L. sericata in white storks have been reported in Austria and Turkey [14,17,36].…”