Cobboldia

Cobboldia
	Cobboldia elephantis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Oestridae
Subfamily:	Gasterophilinae
Genus:	Cobboldia; Brauer, 1887
Species
	C. chrysidiformis Rodhain & Bequaert, 1915; C. elephantis (Cobbold, 1882); C. roverei Gedoelst, 1915; †C. russanovi Grunin, 1973;

Cobboldia is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Oestridae. Adult flies of Cobboldia elephantis lay their eggs near the mouth or base of the tusks of Asian elephant while the related Cobboldia loxodontis (=Platycobboldia loxodontis) parasitizes African elephants. The larvae hatch and develop in the mouth cavity and later move to the stomach. On maturing, the third instar larvae exit from the mouth and drop to the ground to pupate.^[1]

Larvae of *Cobboldia* from autopsy of an Asian elephant stomach

A fossil species Cobboldia russanovi is known from the frozen remains of mammoths. Cobboldia roverei Gedoelst, 1915 (=Rodhainommia roverei, the green elephant stomach bot fly) has been noted from the African Forest Elephant.^[2]^[3]

The genus is named after Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886) who described the first species as Gastrophilus elephantis.^[4]

Notes

^ Murray E. Fowler, Susan K. Mikota (Eds) (2006). Elephant biology, medicine, and surgery. Blackwell Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-8138-0676-1.
^ John M. Kinsella; Sharon L. Deem; Stephen Blake; Andrea S. Freeman (2004). "Endoparasites of African Forest Elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) from the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic". Comparative Parasitology. 71 (2): 104–110. doi:10.1654/4131.
^ Zumpt, F. (1958). "Remarks on the systematic position of myiasis producing flies (Diptera) of the African Elephant, Loxodonta africana (Blumensbach)". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B. 27 (1–2): 8–14. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1958.tb01513.x.
^ Cobbold, T. Spencer (1882). "The Parasites of Elephants". The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2 (4): 223–258.

References

Grunin, K.Y. 1973. The first finding of the stomach bot-fly larvae of the mammoth: Cobboldia (Mamontia, subgen. n.) russanovi, sp. nov. (Diptera, Gasterophilidae). Entomol. Obozr. 52: 228–33. [English translation, 1973, Entomol. Rev. 52(1): 165–69.]
Pont, A. (1976) The date and author of Cobboldia elephantis (Diptera: Gasterophilidae). Zeitschrschrift fur Angewandte Zoologie 63: 23

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[1] Murray E. Fowler, Susan K. Mikota (Eds) (2006). Elephant biology, medicine, and surgery. Blackwell Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-8138-0676-1.

[2] John M. Kinsella; Sharon L. Deem; Stephen Blake; Andrea S. Freeman (2004). "Endoparasites of African Forest Elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) from the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic". Comparative Parasitology. 71 (2): 104–110. doi:10.1654/4131.

[3] Zumpt, F. (1958). "Remarks on the systematic position of myiasis producing flies (Diptera) of the African Elephant, Loxodonta africana (Blumensbach)". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B. 27 (1–2): 8–14. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1958.tb01513.x.

[4] Cobbold, T. Spencer (1882). "The Parasites of Elephants". The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2 (4): 223–258.

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