The following 1-cm long structure was extracted from a Belgian patient returning from Ghana. Identification?
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11 comments:
Cordylobia rodhaini, Lund’s fly, 3rd instar larva. Given it´s shape, the short spines and the shape of the spiracles (serpentine slits, markedly tortuous), and it´s geographic distribution. Photos beautifully taken.
I totally agree with Bernadino, geographically rules out Dermatobia hominis for me.
Fly larvae always make me struggle. Bernardino Rocha just gave me the answer.
Florida Fan
I also totally agree with Bernardino Rocha.
Luis.
Another vote for tumbu fly. Great pictures!
I agree with Cordylobia, and the more strongly sinuate spiracles supports C. rodhaini over the more commonly-seen (on humans), C. anthropophaga.
In Africa, if you allow your laundry to air dry
Make sure you iron it! Wanna know why?
'cuz this diabolical dipterian lays its eggs on fomites
especially on clothes and sheets dried by sunlight
and that's how you get exposed to the tumbu fly!
Tumbu fly
Hooray for Bernardino a wiz at diagnostics
Lumd’s fly no match for his skillful forensics
The folks on the blog all think he is swell
Never missing his mark, the new William Tell
Thank you for the sympathy
My gifts in poetry are very vague and scattered.
Captain Lund's fly never fails an egg in the naked epidermis,
like the arrow thrown and marked in the reckless dermis
of William Tell's victims, poor skin so badly tempered.
wonderful
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