Ectoparasites_Flies, gnats, mosquitos Flashcards
Females that suck blood
Simulium spp. Phlebotomines (sand flies) Culicoides spp. Anopheles, Ades, Culex Chrysops spp and Tabaneus spp.
Male and female that suck blood
Tsetse fly
Stomoxys sp.
Horn fly
Sheep ked
Flies that feed on mucus, tears, and saliva
Musca domestica Musca autumnalis Bottle flies or Blow flies Sarcophaga spp. DPGs
Facultative myiasis
Musca domestica
bottle or blow flies
Sarcophaga spp.
Obligatory myiasis
screw worm Cuterebra spp. Hypoderma spp. Gasterophilus spp. Nasal bot fly
Simulium spp.
“black fly” or “ buffalo gnat”
vector for Oncodecesciasis (river blindness)
Culicoides spp.
“biting midges”/no see ums
blue tongue virus
sheep/ruminants
Anopheles, Aedes, Culex
“mosquito”
malaria, zika, west nile, yellow fever, encephalitis, heart worm!
Chrysops spp.
“deer fly”
Equine infectious anemia
Anthrax
triangular
Tabanus spp.
“horse fly”
Equine infectious anemia
anthrax
HUGE
Stomoxys sp.
“stable fly”
Equine infectious anemia
anthrax
Horn fly
host: Stephanofiliaria stifesi
dark color half the size of stable fly
bayonet like proboscis
Cows
Sheep Ked
brown, wingless, blood sucking fly
Malophagus ovirus, Bartonella spp., Anaplasma spp, Blue tongue virus, Border disease virus
Musca domestica
“housefly”
myiasis and 100 pathogens
Musca autumnalis
cattle and horse
“face or autumn fly”
vector for pink eye and thelazia
DOES NOT CAUSE MYASIS