Phoretic Relationship of Some Common Manure-Inhabiting Macrochelidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata) to the House Fly1
- 1 September 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 57 (5) , 584-587
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/57.5.584
Abstract
House flies, Musca domestica (L.), were trapped from mite-infested dairy cattle manure and collected by net inside dairy barns. Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Scopoli) and M. subbadius (Berlese) were commonly found attached to the house flies. Although M. medarius (Berlese), M. robustulus (Berlese) and Glyptholaspis confusa (Foà) were present in the manure, only 1 specimen of each of the first 2 species and none of the third were found attached to a house fly. In a comparison of the behavior of macrochelids from laboratory colonies, M. muscaedomesticae and M. subbadius were phoretic on the house fly and the other 3 species were not.Keywords
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