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Definition of Genus Hypoderma

1. Noun. In some classifications considered the type genus of the family Hypodermatidae: warble flies.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hypoderma

Literary usage of Genus Hypoderma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"... the larvae burrow in the skin, which they reach after somewhat long peregrination. Genus. Hypoderma, Latreille. Hypoderma bovis, de Geer ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1876)
"... reported, " these larvae agree so well — so exactly with the description and figures given by me for the larvae of the genus Hypoderma — especially for ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1876)
"... reported, " these larva? agree so well — so exactly with the description and figures given by me for the larvae of the genus Hypoderma — especially for ..."

4. Human Parasitology: With Notes on Bacteriology, Mycology, Laboratory by Damaso de Rivas (1920)
"genus Hypoderma (Latreille, 1825) Body is yellowish gray or black in color, either bare or provided with hairs. Wings are transparent or brownish, ..."

5. The Practical Study of Malaria and Other Blood Parasites by John William Watson Stephens, Samuel Rickard Christophers (1903)
"(b) genus Hypoderma, eg, H. lineata. Larvae produce ox warbles (=tumours) in the ox. (c) Genus Oestrus, eg, 0. Ovis. Larvae in the respiratory passages of ..."

6. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1906)
"... removed it from the Linnean genus Oestrus and placed it in a new genus, Hypoderma, and the insect is now generally known as Hypoderma bovis. ..."

7. The Modern Horse Doctor: Containing Practical Observations on the Causes by George H. Dadd (1856)
"... suffice, in our mind, to authorize the conclusion, that the larva in question, though it belong to the genus hypoderma, constitutes a distinct species, ..."

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