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Gastrophilus equi
Botfly Bot"fly`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estrid[ae], of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larv[ae] of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

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- Botflies, also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, are a family of flies known as the Oestridae. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals...
- 1794) G. ternicinctus (Gedoelst, 1912) Synonyms Gastrus Meigen, 1824 Gastrophilus Ag****iz, 1846 Enteromyza Rondani, 1857 Rhinogastrophilus Townsend, 1918...
- Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886) who described the first species as Gastrophilus elephantis. Murray E. Fowler, Susan K. Mikota (Eds) (2006). Elephant...
- 1038/155227a0. S2CID 4094540. Keilin, D.; Wang, Y.L. (1946). "The Haemoglobin of Gastrophilus Larvae Purification and Properties". Biochem. J. 40 (5–6): 855–866. doi:10...