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Authors:

A. D. RESHETNIKOV, doctor of veterinary sciences, professor, chief research associate,

A. I. BARASHKOVA, candidate of biological sciences, senior research associate

YAKUT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE NAMED AFTER M. G. SAFRONOV (23/1 Bestuzheva-Marlinskogo Str., 677001, Yakutsk)

Abstract. In the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) large herds of reindeer are concentrated in tundra and forest tundra zones and cattle in the central part. The greatest harm to cattle is caused by subcutaneous gadfly Hypoderma bovis De Geer and Hypoderma lineatum De Villers, to reindeer – by Oedemagena tarandi L. As for the study of animal disease investigations, caused by subcutane- ous larvae, 7 scientists participated from 4 research institutions and Siberian Veterinary Institute (Omsk). 3 of them dedicated their work to study Hypoderma bovis De Geer., H. lineatum De Vill., 7 of them – to Oedemagena tarandi L. The result of the analysis of scientific papers by the directions is 43 % on studying the fauna and ecology of subcutaneous gadflies, 50.8 % for the development of methods of fighting, and 6.3 % on economic efficiency. Veterinary entomologists of Yakutia in close unity with the scientists of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Union Scientific Research Institute of Veterinary Sanitation and All-Russian Research Institute of Veterinary Entomology and Arachnology brought a worthy contribution to the establishment of veterinary entomology in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The contribution of scientists is not only in the practical use of the contemporary time means and methods of cattle hypodermosis, oedemagenosis and cephenomiosis therapy of reindeer from organophosphorus compounds to the synthetic pyrethroids, drugs ivermectin and avermectin, but also in the development of fundamental biological basis – the study of the environmental features of subcutaneous gadfly – Hypoderma bovis De Geer, Hypoderma lineatum De Villers и Oedemagena tarandi L.