Biting Muscoid Flies

Question 1

What genuses have both males and females feed on vertebrate blood

Answer 1

Glossina
Stomoxys calcitrans
Haematobia irritans
Melophagus ovinus
Pseudolynchia & lynchia sp

Question 2

Glossina sp AKA

Answer 2

Tsete fly

Question 3

Glossina
host
habitat

Answer 3

humans and other mammals

Restricted to Africa, feed in daylight

Question 4

How to ID Glossina sp

Answer 4

Unique wing venation- one “cell” within the wing and called “cleaver cell” or “hatchet cell”

Bayonet-like mouthparts

Strong flier

Question 5

Importance of Glossina spp

Answer 5

Spread trypanosomiasis among animals and sleeping sickness among humans

Produce NAGANA disease in cattle (Trypanosoma brucei, T. congolense, T. vivax)

Question 6

T/F Glossina spp have simple metamorphosis

Answer 6

F

Complex

Question 7

T/F Glossina spp have tremendous reproductive potential

Answer 7

F

Make ONE larva at a time and femals only breeds ONCE in her lifetime.

Question 8

Glossina zoonotic?

Answer 8

NO

Question 9

Stomoxys calcitrans AKA

Answer 9

Stable fly or biting house fly

Question 10

Stomoxys calcitrans

host

Answer 10

Humans and other mammals with pointy ears

Question 11

Stomoxys calcitrans

ID

Answer 11

Similar to house fly BUT has protuding bayonet-like mouthpart designed for blood sucking

Question 12

Importance of Stomoxys calcitrans

Answer 12

Mass fly attacks in N America and annoys livestock.

Mechanimal transmission of pathogenic agents because of interrupted feeding

Question 13

Stomoxys calcitrans zoonotic

Answer 13

NO

Question 14

Haematobia irritans AKA

Answer 14

Horn fly

Question 15

Haematobia irritans
host
habitat

Answer 15

Cattle

Adult flies remain on cattle both day and night. Rest on cow

Question 16

Haematobia irritans ID

Answer 16

Looks similar to stable fly BUT is 1/2 the size. Still has bayonet-like mouthpart.

Question 17

Haematobia irritans importance

Answer 17

Disrupts cattle production

Question 18

Haematobia irritans zoonotic

Answer 18

NO

Question 19

T/F hippoboscid flies aren’t dipterans

Answer 19

F

True dipterans

Question 20

Melophagus ovinus AKA

Answer 20

Sheep ked

-permanent ectoparasite

Question 21

Melophagus
host
habitat

Answer 21

Sheep and goats

Wool and fleece of sheep and goats

Question 22

ID melophagus ovinus

Answer 22

Wingless dipteran
leathery
No neck
“sheep tick”

Question 23

Modified complex metamorphosis of melophagus ovinus

Answer 23

Female sheep ked retains egg wthin uterus until larvae fully developed. Only carries one larva and feeds on milk glands.

Question 24

Melophagus ovinus zoonotic

Answer 24

NO

Question 25

Pseudolynchia and lynchia spp AKA

Answer 25

Louae flies of birds

Question 26

Pseudolynchia host habitat

Answer 26

Raptors Birds Feathers of birds

Question 27

ID pseudolynchia spp

Answer 27

Winged supterans clawed swift fliers

Question 28

Importance of pseudolynchia

Answer 28

Serve as intermediate host Haemoproteus columbae, protozoan that produces malaria in pigeons

Question 29

T/F Hippoboscids undergo modified complex metamorphosis

Answer 29

T

Question 30

Pseudolynchia spp zoonotic

Answer 30

NO

Question 31

Hippoboscid spp

Answer 31

Pseudolynchia | Melophagus ovis