Simulium is a genus of black flies, which may transmit diseases such as onchocerciasis (river blindness). It is a large genus with almost 2,000 species...
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Simuliinae contains all the rest. Over 1,800 of the species belong to the genus Simulium. Most black flies gain nourishment by feeding on the blood of mammals,...
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Simulium variegatum is a species of fly in the family Simuliidae. It is found in the Palearctic. Fauna Europaea Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988)...
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Simulium fibrinflatum, the inflated gnat, is a species of black flies, insects in the family Simuliidae. "Simulium fibrinflatum Report". Integrated Taxonomic...
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Simulium buissoni, commonly referred to as the black nono or no-no noir des rivières, is a midge species in the genus Simulium found on Nuku Hiva and Eiao...
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species in Simulium, a genus of black flies in the family Simuliidae. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U-V W-Z References Simulium abadii...
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trachoma. The parasitic worm is spread by the bites of a black fly of the Simulium genus. Usually, many bites are required before infection occurs. These...
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Simulium yahense is a species of black flies found in West African rain forests. Their larval stages are found in "smaller, more shaded, cooler breeding...
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Leucocytozoon (category Simulium)
the malaria parasites). The species of this genus use either blackflies (Simulium species) or a biting midge as their definitive host and birds as their...
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Blandford fly (redirect from Simulium posticatum)
The Blandford fly (Simulium posticatum) is a species of black fly. It is a biting insect found in Europe, Turkey and western Siberia. It spends its larval...
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Simulium tuberosum, known generally as Twinn's black fly, is a species of black fly in the family Simuliidae. Other common names include the superfluous...
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spread from person to person via female biting blackflies of the genus Simulium, and humans are the only known definitive host. Onchocerca volvulus parasites...
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Austrosimulium Species: A. australense Binomial name Austrosimulium australense ( Schiner, 1868) Synonyms Simulia australensis Simulium tillyardi Tonnoir, 1923...
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and the White Volta. Areas near rivers are affected by tsetse flies and simulium flies. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries...
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Simulium latipes is a species of fly in the family Simuliidae. It is found in the Palearctic . Fauna Europaea Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988)...
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Insect Disease type Disease name Black fly (Simulium) Parasitic worm Mansonelliasis Black fly (Simulium) Parasitic worm Onchocerciasis (river blindness)...
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Onchocerca volvulus infection by infected blackfly bite. These blackfly, Simulium, usually dwell near fast-flowing African streams, so the disease is also...
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Adult black fly (Simulium yahense) with Onchocerca volvulus emerging from the insect's antenna. The parasite is responsible for the disease known as river...
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flies that contains over 2,000 species, with more than 1,800 in the genus Simulium. There are 19 living genera, and three genera only known from Cretaceous...
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Mungomba, L.M., Molyneux, D.H. & Green, E.E. (1990). Avian trypanosomes in Simulium and sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus). Parasitology, 101,243-247. Lewis, Timothy...
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S2CID 86752961. Gislason, G.M.; Gardarsson A. (1988). "Long term studies on Simulium vittatum Zett. (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the River Laxá, North Iceland,...
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ziemanni and the drinking of blood by swarming, blood-drinking blackflies (Simulium ssp.), was a leading cause of juvenile mortality in the Yukon. The great...
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Family: Chlorellaceae Genus: Helicosporidium Keilin, 1921 Species Helicosporidium sp. ex Simulium jonesii Helicosporidium sp. ex Cyrtobagous salviniae...
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mobbing so severely that they temporarily leave the nest. Blackflies (Simulium canonicolum) have been recorded as killing several red-tail chicks through...
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vector: other species in the genus are transmitted by species of the genus Simulium. The parasite is transmitted by the bite of its vector. On infection of...
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the origin of the Golubatz fly (Simulium colombaschense), a species of bloodsucking black fly (of the genus Simulium) that can be lethal to livestock...
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Binomial name Ectemnia invenusta (Walker, 1848) Synonyms Cnephia invenusta (Walker) Cnephia loisae Stone and Jamnback, 1955 Simulium invenustum Walker, 1848...
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a Hemiodontidae freshwater fish. Cheirocerus goeldii, also a catfish; Simulium goeldii, a blackfly from the Amazon Rainforest; Philodendron goeldii, a...
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gaviae and avian malaria have been recorded in this loon. The black fly Simulium annulus is closely associated with the common loon to which it is attracted...
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in Nono woreda Nono, West Shewa, Oromia, Ethiopia, a woreda Black nono (Simulium buissoni), a midge species on the Marquesas Islands in Polynesia, with...
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