ABSENCE OF LARVAL FAT BODY IN THE BUFFALO FLY, HAEMATOBIA IRRITANS EXIGUA (DIPTERA: MUSC1DAE)

Abstract

Larval fat body persists, as spherical particles, in most Diptera at the time of adult emergence. The present study and reports in the literature indicate its presence in 25 species of muscoid flies but not in the buffalo fly. the horn fly. or tsetse.