INTRODUCTION The transmission of harmful pathogens by arthropods is an increasing health concern. More concretely, flies are known to be able to transmit the infectious agent mechanically. OBJECTIVE The present work shows a case report occurred from foodservice establishments where were isolated and identified, at the first time, Megaselia spp. in the food preparation place. Furthermore, micr...

Se registra por primera vez en Venezuela la presencia del género Megaselia sp (Rondani, 1856) (Diptera: Phoridae) sobre frutos descomposición de hemiparásita Phthirusa pyrifolia (Kunth) Eichler (Loranthaceae) conocida popularmente como guatepajarito, parásita colectada ciudad Puerto Ordaz, ubicado el municipio Caroní, estado Bolívar, (8º18'55''LN; 62º42'53''LO) muy cerca unión río al Orinoco. I...

myiasis is the infestation of organs and tissues of human and animals with fly larvae. this article reports an 18 year-old man with urogenital myiasis, the passing of live megaselia scalaris larvae in the urine, from zanjan city, northwest of iran. we discourse the importance of diagnosis and management of urogenital myiasis in medicine.

The segmentation gene network in insects can produce equivalent phenotypic outputs despite differences in upstream regulatory inputs between species. We investigate the mechanistic basis of this phenomenon through a systems-level analysis of the gap gene network in the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita (Phoridae). It combines quantification of gene expression at high spatio-temporal resolution with ...

Abstract We review the species of Megaselia similar to sulphurizona Borgmeier. A close examination M. indicates that its current concept includes at least 16 species, 15 which— albizona, borealizona, colombizona, cryptizona, danizona, guanizona, marizona, nivizona, oklizona, paulizona, reductizona, solizona, tropizona, wendizona, and winnizona are described as new, based primarily on molecular ...

in the course of studying the saprophagous flies of kermanshah province, the larvae of drosophila busckii (coquillett) and megaselia scalaris (loew) were collected on the moribund or dead larvae of polyphylla olivieri laporte in the orchards of sahneh during 2008-2009. the adult specimens of d. busckii and m. scalaris were identified by dr. diseny (university of cambridge) and dr. baechli (univ...

Megaselia scalaris (Loew) is a cosmopolitan and synanthropic scuttle fly, eclectic in its feeding habits and acts as detritivore, parasite, facultative parasite, and parasitoid. Here we report for the first time M. scalaris infesting laboratory colonies of Triatoma brasiliensis Neiva, the most important Chagas disease vector in semiarid areas of Brazil. M. scalaris larvae were found feeding ins...