Engorging female attached to the body of a chicken. Hosts for argasid ticks are varied, mostly birds and bats. 146 kb Hungry argasids attached to the host skin. The fowl tick feeds once per immature stage an instar while adults are capable...
A few species of the genus Fannia are commonly found breeding in animal manure and confined livestock facilities. The most common is the little house fly, Fannia canicularis. It is smaller than the house fly being about 5-6mm long. The adult is blackish-gray with three indistinct black dorsal...
The false stable fly is not a blood-sucker and has sponging-sucking mouth parts like the house fly. Overall color is dark gray with the head a lighter whitish gray. The gray thorax has four longitudinal stripes and the posterior tip of the scutellum (dorsal rear lobe of the thorax) is pale...
Felicola subrostrata is the only louse that occurs on cats. The head is triangular with the point directed forwards and notched at the apex. Ventraly there is a median longitudinal groove on the head which fits around the hair of host. The...
Lipeurus spp are grey, slow-moving lice, which are found close to the skin. Lipeurus caponis, the wing louse, prefers the underside of of the wing and tail feathers.
The head is very long. The clypeus at the front of the head is broad at the top, the genae are paralell. There is a protrusion (callosity) behind each eye and the base of the antenna is at the front of the head away from the eyes. 68 kb 78 kb Adult, dorsal view. 56 kb Adult, lateral view.
The stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, resembles Musca domestica but has a stout, black proboscis which is used to pierce the skin and imbibe blood. It has a broader abdomen than the house fly and there is a checkerboard of dark spots on the...
Tabanidae is one of the largest of dipteran families, with an estimated 8,000 species and worldwide distribution. The eyes are large, covering most of the head. In life many species display colorful eye banding that all disappears on dried specimens. 100 kb The tabanids or horse flies are stout...
Goniocotes gallinae, the fluff louse, occurs in the fluff at the bases of feathers, its preferred sites being the back and rump. Its one of the smallest lice of poultry.
Pretarsi of Otodectes cynotis have short, unsegmented pedicels on the first and second pairs of legs of the female and on all legs of the male. The mite feeds at the external surface of the skin causing inflammation and very frequently serous to purulent exudate, depending on the nature of the...