🪰Dermatobia hominis
The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis, is a species of botfly whose larvae parasitise humans. It is also known as the torsalo or American warble fly, though the warble fly is in the genus Hypoderma and not Dermatobia, and is a parasite on cattle and deer instead of humans.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Dermatobia hominis yet.
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderDiptera
- ›familyOestridae
- ›genusDermatobia
- ›speciesDermatobia hominis
- classInsects · Insecta
- orderFlies · Diptera
- subfamilyCuterebrinae
- genusDermatobia
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsects · Insecta
- subclassPterygota
- orderFlies · Diptera
- suborderBrachycera
- superfamilyOestroidea
- subfamilyCuterebrinae
- genusDermatobia
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