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tumbu fly|ˈtʊmbuː flaɪ|
[f. Bantu name of the insect + fly n.1]
A yellow fly with grey markings, Cordylobia anthropophaga, found in sub-Saharan Africa, where its larva is a parasite of man and other animals.
1911A. Alcock Entomol. for Med. Officers x. 155 The notorious species is..the Tumbu-fly, the larva of which is a subcutaneous parasite of man and other animals. 1930Discovery Aug. 265/1 Wild beasts..and tumbu flies abound. 1979C. Allen Tales from Dark Continent i. 5 There was the tumbo [sic] fly..whose worm manifested itself as a large boil.
[a. Manding tumbu, name of the insect.] More fully, tumbu fly. A fly, Cordylobia anthropophaga, with a yellow body and grey markings, found in sub-Saharan Africa, where its larva is a subcutaneous parasite of man and other animals. Also used attrib. and absol. to designate the skin disease caused by the larva, esp. as tumbu disease or tumbu sickness.
1898Army Med. Dept. Rep. XL. 466 There was one instance of what appears to be a rare parasite... It is known to the Mendi people as Tumbu sickness and is said to be caused by the Tumbu fly laying eggs in the skin. 1908Jrnl. R. Army Med. Corps X. 15 Babies at breast and carried in a cloth on their mothers' backs are often afflicted with ‘tumbu’. Ibid., A wild rat had six ‘tumbus’ in the bare underpart of his legs and feet. 1910Castellani & Chalmers Man. Trop. Med. lvi. 1109 Recently several new and valuable papers on this affection, which is often called the ‘Tumbu-fly disease’, have appeared. 1923― in Byam & Archibald Pract. Med. in Tropics III. cxii. 2410 Tumbu disease is an African dermal myiasis caused by the larvæ of Cordylobia anthropophaga and allied species living under the skin. 1923Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasitol. XVII. 497 The natives of Sierra Leone use palm oil, the pericarp oil of Elaeis guineensis, with the same object; they say, however, that the Tumbu comes out at night to feed on the oil. 1930Discovery Aug. 265/1 Wild beasts..and tumbu flies abound. 1962Gordon & Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xxxi. 195 When the larvae of the tumbu fly are mature they wriggle out of the host's tissues and fall to the ground, where they bury themselves prior to pupation. 1979C. Allen Tales from Dark Continent i. 5 There was the tumbo [sic] fly..whose worm manifested itself as a large boil. |