Flesh fly myiasis (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) in Peruvian poison frogs genus Epipedobates (Anura, Dendrobatidae)

Phyllomedusa

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-73

  Hagman, Mattias ^a   Pape, Thomas ^b   Schulte, Rainer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Instituto de Investigación de la Biología de las Cordilleras Orientales   (Peru)

Author keywords

Anura; Dendrobatidae; Diptera; Epipedobates; Flesh fly; Myiasis; Peru; Sarcodexia lambens; Sarcophagidae

Indexed keywords

FLY; FROG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE; DIPTERA; EPIPEDOBATES; SARCODEXIA; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 27944446087     PISSN: 15191397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v4i1p69-73     Document Type: Article

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