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| Deer botfly (Cephenemyia stimulator) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Oestridae |
| Tribe: | Cephenemyiini |
| Genus: | Cephenemyia Latreille, 1818 |
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The name deer botfly (also deer nose botfly) refers to any species in the genus Cephenemyia (sometimes misspelled as Cephenomyia or Cephenemya), within the family Oestridae. They are large, gray-brown flies, often very accurate mimics of bumblebees. They attack chiefly the nostrils and pharyngeal cavity of members of the deer family. The larva of Cephenemyia auribarbis, infesting the stag, is called a stagworm.[1] The genus name comes from the Greek kēphēn, meaning 'drone bee', and myia, meaning 'fly'.
- ^ Stagworm - Definitions from Dictionary.com. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.