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Mosquitoes (Culicidae)a, and apart from carrying this and other diseases are almost unrivalled as irritating biting pests. All mosquitoes belong to the family Culicidae, which at present contains about 3450 species and subspecies. These are documented in world catalogues (see Ward, 1992) which are updated every few years

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Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)e non-biting midges, but can be distinguished from them by the presence of biting mouthparts in the female, the wing venation and by the short fore legs (Fig. 7.1). They are best known as ′biting midges′ (often, as here, abbreviated to ′midges′), but are also called ′sandflies′ (usually, and best, r

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Horse-flies, deer-flies and clegs (Tabanidae)other vernacular names are used, including gadflies, stouts, elephant-flies, buffalo-flies, mooseflies, clegs (genus .), deer-flies (genus .) and greenheads (for Nearctic species of salt-marsh .). Many species bite man, but few are proven vectors of human disease and the only parasite cyclically tra

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House-flies, blow-flies and their allies (calyptrate Diptera) in fact the epitome of the popular idea of flies′. The 18 000 or so described species form a natural group (′subsection′) within the higher Diptera (i.e. the infraorder Muscomorpha). Their classification is described in brief in Chapter 3.

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Diptera causing myiasis in manr living tissue, liquid body-substances or ingested food (Zumpt, 1965). The different forms of myiasis have been classified in two ways. Firstly, in clinical terms, based upon the part of the host’s body that is infested, and secondly, in parasitological terms, according to the type of host-parasite

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Bedbugs and kissing-bugs (bloodsucking Hemiptera) largest of the exopterygote orders. The order has been traditionally divided into two suborders, Homoptera and Heteroptera, but a division into three or four suborders is now generally accepted. These names relate to the typical form of wings: the adults usually have the anterior pair of wings of h