First report of warble fly infestation in markhor, Capra falconeri

Ángeles Sáez-Ventura; Gracia M Liébanas; Antonio Sánchez; Ismoil Kholmatov; Stéphane Ostrowski; Jesús M Pérez

doi:10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.101029

First report of warble fly infestation in markhor, Capra falconeri

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl. 2024 Dec 5:26:101029. doi: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.101029. eCollection 2025 Apr.

Authors

Ángeles Sáez-Ventura¹, Gracia M Liébanas¹, Antonio Sánchez², Ismoil Kholmatov^{3

4}, Stéphane Ostrowski⁵, Jesús M Pérez¹

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, S.n., 23071, Jaén, Spain.
² Departamento de Biología Experimental, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, S.n., 23071, Jaén, Spain.
³ Tajikistan Nature Foundation, 130 Ayni Street, 734006, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
⁴ National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Institute of Zoology and Parasitology, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
⁵ Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Souther Blvd, 10460, Bronx, New York, USA.

Abstract

In December 2023, 35 third-instar larvae were collected from subcutaneous granulomatous cysts in a free-ranging markhor (Capra falconeri) hunted in the Dashtijum region of the Khazratishoh mountain range, Tajikistan. The larvae were identified as those of Przhevalskiana silenus (Diptera: Oestridae: Hypodermatinae). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of an oestrid fly infestation in this host species.

Keywords: Capra falconeri; Hypodermatinae; Oestridae; Przhevalskiana silenus; Tajikistan.