Biological aspects on dictyocaulus arnfieldi

In the postmortem examination of 54 adult donkeys slaughtered for the carnivore animals in Kafr El-Sheikh Zoological Garden, Dictyocaulus arnfieldi [Cobbold, 1884] Railliet and Henry, 1907 was demonstrated in their lungs. The biological data of the different developmental stages were recorded and discussed, where the period required for maturation, hatching and development of 2[nd] and 3[rd] stage larvae was 84 hours, general discussion was given