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DIPTERA: Cyclorrhaphans, Siphonaptera, Hemiptera Flashcards

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Suborder Cyclorrhapha families

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“Circular-seamed fly”
Family Muscidae
Family Glossinidae
Family Hippoboscidae
Family Sarcophagidae
Family Calliphoridae
SubFamily Oestridae

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Genera under Family Muscidae

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Musca (housefly, facefly)
Stomoxys (stablefly)
Haematobia (Hornfly, buffalo fly)
Fannia

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Piercing-sucking type under family Muscidae

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Haematobia and Stomoxys

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Larvae have D-shaped posterior spiracles

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Haematobia

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Larvae have D-shaped posterior spiracles

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Haematobia

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Larvae has 3 S-shaped slits well separated from each other

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Stomoxys

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Larvae has S-shaped slits posterior spiracles that are close together

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Musca

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Adults remain on the back of their host, leaving only to fly to another host
female: drops eggs in freshly passed feces

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Haematobia irritans
(hornfly/ buffalo fly)

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Disease Carried by Musca domestica

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stomach worms
Draschia megastoma - horses
Habronema muscae - horses

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Both sexes feed on blood

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Stomoxys
Haematobia

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tsetse flies

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Family Glossinidae
Genus Glossina
Arista: unilaterally plumose
Wing: hatchet-shaped medial cell
Both sexes feed on blood (2-3days)
Disease: T. brucei, T. rodesiense, T. gambiense
Nagana (T. bruceu, T. congolense, T. vivax)

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Arista is unilaterally plumose

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Glossina spp.

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Riverine species

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Glossina palpalis group

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Glossina Savannah species

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Glossina morsitans group

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Rainforest species

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Glossina fusca group

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Provides all life stages protection against insect viruses in Glossina. It is found in ovaries and are maternally inherited

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Wolbachia spp.

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Provides nutritional supplementation for female fecundity and larval development. found in mil gland tubules and larval gut

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Wigglesworthia spp.

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Found all over the body, it contributes towards tsetse flies susceptibility to Tryposomes, allowing the protozoa to establish in their gut.
Passed to larva through milk glands

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Sodalis spp.

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unusual group as they do not resemble a fly at all. Are dorsoventrally flattened and sometimes wingless flies.

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Family Hippoboscidae
“keds”
“louse flies”
“forest flies”

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Hippobiscid that feeds on mammals

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shorter, stouter legs and heavier claws

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Hippoboscid that feed on birds

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longer, thinner legs and claws

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Genus under Family Hippoboscidae

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Genus Hippobosca
Genus Melophagus
Genus Lipotena
Genus Pseudolynchia

both sexes feed on blood

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Biologic vector of Haemoproteus columbae

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Pseudolynchia canariensis

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Hippobiscid with wings & halters

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Hippobosca equina
Pseudolynchia canariensis

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Hippobiscid with no wings or halters

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Melophagus ovinus
“sheep ked”

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Hippoboscid with wings but will later lose them.
w/ halters

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Lipoptena cervi

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Disease of sheep ked

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species
- Melophagus ovinus

Disease: Typanosoma melophagium

28
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Dog louse fly

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Hippobosca longipennis
IH: Acanthocheilonema dracunculoides
Host: dog

29
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“blow flies”

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Family Calliphora
Metallic colors

30
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eggs are laid in perimeter around body orifices and small open wounds of warm blooded animals.

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screw-worm fly

Chrysomya bezziana (metalic blue)
Cochliomya (Callitroga) hominivorax - metalic green

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Eggs are deposited in sandy areas where animal lie

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Cordylobia anthropophaga
“tumbo, mango fly”

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“Fleshflies”

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Family Sarcophagidae
Genus Sarcophaga
Genus Wolfahrtia

viviparous
100-200 larvae

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“botflies” / “ warble flies”

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Family Oestridae

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Larva forms a lump with a breathing hole (Warble)

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Hypoderma spp.

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Larvae burrow skin on the host’s back and spine

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Hypoderma bovis

36
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Larvae burrow around esophagus

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Hypoderma Lineatum

37
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females deposit larvae on intermadibular space

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Family Oestridae
Gastrophilus nasalis

38
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Larvae is deposited on the hair on lips

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Family Oestridae
Gastrophilus hemmorrhoidalis

39
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Hair ang deposited around forelegs/ shoulders

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Gastrophilus intestinallis

40
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females of this species lays their egg along or near rodent/ rabbit and immediatly hatches.

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Cuterabra spp.

41
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Females of this species capture another bloodsucking fly and glue the eggs on their abdomen

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Dermatobia hominis

42
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treatment of myiasis

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-Coumaphos dipped, sprayed, or smeared directly on maggot infested lesionsq

43
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“fleas”

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Order Siphonaptera

44
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Their antennae are short and club-like and regressed into the head. They possess long and strong legs, the 3rd pair of legs being the longest

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Order Siphonaptera
“fleas”

45
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dark spines on the ventral aspect of the head

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Genal Ctenidia/ combs

46
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Dark spines on the posterior aspect of the prothorax

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Pronatal Ctenidia/combs

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Sexual Dimorphism of Siphonaptera

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Females are larger and dorsal surface is rounded
Males dorsal surface is flatter and ventral surface is curved; aedeagus is present

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Flea family that is infrequent and brief association with the host; spends more time on nest/bedding and only feed on host on short periods

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Suborder Siphonaptera
Family Ceratophyllidae

49
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Adult fleas have prolonged association with host2; eggs will be laid on host and drop off later

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Suborder Siphonaptera
Family Pulicidae

50
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Characterized by having no genal combs, but have many pronotal combs

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Family Ceratophyllidae
Genus Ceratophyllus
Genus Nosopsyllus

51
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Cosmopolitan parasites of rodents

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Nosopsyllus fasciatus
“northern rat flea”
Host: rat, mouse, human

52
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Nosopsyllus fasciatus is a vector of what disease

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Yersinia pestis (black plague)
Rickettsia typhi (murine typhus)

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Family Pulicidae

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Ctenocephalides spp.
Spilopsyllus cuniculi
Echidnophaga gallinacae
Pulex irritans
Xenopsylla cheopis
Tunga penetrans

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Flea:
Head is elongated (more in females than in males) and pointed anteriorly
Disease it carries

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Ctenocephalides felis felis
-IH Dipylidium caninum
-Rickettsia typhi
-Bartonella henselae (cat-scratch fever)`

55
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Relatively rarer than C. felis
Head is rounded on anterior surface.
Disease it carries

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Ctenocephalides canis
-Dipylidium caninum

56
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remains for long periods with mouthparts embedded in host. Life cycle is believed to be mediated by host’s hormones.
Disease it transmits

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Spilopsyllus cuniculi
disease: Francisella tularensis

57
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Frons of the head is sharply angled; often found on the head, comb, or wattles of poultry.
Females burrow into skin and leaves only posterior end on surface

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Echindophaga gallinacae
“sticktight flea”

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it is thought that the original principal hosts were pigs; no genal and pronatal combs

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Pulex irritans
“human flea”

59
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flea found in hedgehogs

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Archeopsylla erinaceid`

60
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Transmit Yersinia Pestis

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Xenopsylla cheopis
Nosopsyllus fasciatus

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females slash skin of host an d burrows into the wounds, leaving only the last abdominal segments on skin surface. the host skin proliferates during healing (nodule) and covers the flea except the last abdominal segment

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Tunga penetrans
“Jigger / Chigoe”

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the triangular shield; characteristic of Hemiptera

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Scutellum

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Proboscis is divided into three segments

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Order Hemiptera
“true bugs”

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has 2 pair of wings, 3-segmented beak and 4-segmented antennae
Disease they transmit

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Family Reduviidae
“kissing bugs /assassin bugs”
Disease: Typanosoma cruzi / Chagas disease
Via posterior station

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Ectoparasite of eutherian (Placental mammals)
-Suborder & Family

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Suborder ANOPLURA
-Family Haematopinidae
-Family Linognathidae

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