Deer botfly

Deer botfly
Deer botfly (Cephenemyia stimulator)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Oestridae
Tribe:	Cephenemyiini
Genus:	Cephenemyia Latreille, 1818
Species
C. albina (Taber & Fleenor, 2004) C. apicata (Bennett and Sabrosky, 1962) C. auribarbis (Meigen, 1824) C. jellisoni (Townsend, 1941) C. kaplanovi (Grunin, 1947) C. macrostis (Brauer, 1863) C. phobifer (Clark, 1815) C. pratti (Clark, 1815) C. stimulator (Hunter, 1916) C. trompe (Modeer, 1786) C. ulrichii (Brauer, 1863)
Synonyms
Cephenemya(Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) Cephenomyia (Agassiz, 1846) Endocephala (Lioy, 1864) Coephalomyia (Rondani, 1868) Cephalemya (Curran, 1934) Acrocomyia (Papavero, 1977) Procephenemyia (Papavero, 1977)

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'.