Table 1.
Dipteran families and parasite infection distribution across three animal-rearing sites in Assiut Governorate, Upper Egypt
| Dipteran family | Fly species | Collection Site |
No. of flies | Total No | Total no. of fly pools | Positive pools infected with parasites (n/%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muscidae | Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 | A | 2628 | 7715 | 772 | 746 (96.6%) |
| B | 3668 | |||||
| C | 1419 | |||||
| Musca sorbens Wiedemann, 1830 | A | 42 | 65 | 8 | 8 (100%) | |
| B | 23 | |||||
| C | 0 | |||||
| Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus, 1758) | A | 12 | 198 | 22 | 21 (95.6%) | |
| B | 19 | |||||
| C | 167 | |||||
| Sphaeroceridae | Borborillus vitripennis (Meigen, 1830) | A | 900 | 2910 | 292 | 238 (81.5%) |
| B | 1240 | |||||
| C | 770 | |||||
| Fanniidae | Fannia canicularis (Linnaeus, 1761) | A | 431 | 1134 | 116 | 111 (95.7%) |
| B | 621 | |||||
| C | 82 | |||||
| Sepsidae | Sepsis punctum (Fabricius, 1794) | A | 178 | 495 | 56 | 52 (92.8%) |
| B | 277 | |||||
| C | 40 | |||||
| Meroplius minutus (Wiedemann, 1830) | A | 25 | 86 | 15 | 14 (93.3%) | |
| B | 22 | |||||
| C | 39 | |||||
| Ulidiidae | Physiphora alceae (Preyssler, 1791) | A | 105 | 137 | 20 | 20 (100%) |
| B | 16 | |||||
| C | 16 | |||||
| Calliphoridae | Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 | A | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 (100%) |
| B | 1 | |||||
| C | 1 | |||||
| Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) | A | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 (100%) | |
| B | 2 | |||||
| C | 0 | |||||
| Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) | A | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 (100%) | |
| B | 1 | |||||
| C | 1 | |||||
| Sarcophagidae | Sarcophaga sp. | A | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 (100%) |
| B | 0 | |||||
| C | 1 | |||||
| Total | 12,749 | 1310 | 1219 (93%) |