Simulium - Wikipedia
网页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 and 38 subgenera. [1] The flies are pool feeders.
Black fly - Wikipedia
网页Only four genera in the family Simuliidae, Simulium, Prosimulium, Austrosimulium, and Cnephia, contain species that feed on people, though other species prefer to feed on other mammals or on birds. Simulium, the type genus, is the most widespread and is a vector for several diseases, including river blindness.
black flies, Simulium spp. - Entomology and Nematology …
网页Black fly, Simulium sp., feeding on man. Photograph by J. F. Butler, University of Florida. Some people are very attractive to black flies and have strong feeding reactions. Others appear to repel black flies and are bitten little if at all. Although Simulium slossonae is primarily a bird feeder, large swarms are attracted to people ...
Ecologically and medically important black flies of the genus Simulium …
网页2024年3月20日 · The black fly genus Simulium includes medically and ecologically important species, characterized by a wide variation of ecological niches largely determining their distributional patterns. In a rapidly changing environment, species-specific niche characteristics determine whether a species benefits or not.
Delineating taxonomic boundaries in the largest species …
网页2016年2月3日 · The Simulium tuberosum species group is one of the most structurally uniform taxa of black flies, with species typically differing only in subtle characteristics of one or two life stages, such...
Simulium | insect | Britannica
网页agent of onchocerciasis. …black flies in the genus Simulium. The disease is found chiefly in Brazil and Venezuela in the Americas and in sub-Saharan Africa, in a broad belt extending from Senegal on the west coast to Ethiopia on the east; in Africa its northern edge is about 15° N of the Equator,….
Simulium - SpringerLink
网页2016年1月1日 · Latin: simulare = betraying, cheating. Classification. Genus of the dipteran mosquito family Simuliidae. Life Cycle. The species of the genus Simulium contain rather small (2–6 mm) specimens, which look dark and thus are called “blackflies” (Fig. 1). Since their thorax segments are dorsally protruded, they also got the name “buffalo flies.”
Simulium - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
网页Simulium lays its eggs attached to rocks and vegetation submerged in fast-flowing, highly oxygenated rivers and streams, where larval and pupal stages develop. In Africa, the vector breeds in large rivers such as the Volta, while in the Americas the vector breeds in streams and rivulets in forested areas and is less accessible to larviciding by ...
Simulium SPP., Vectors of Onchocerca Volvulus: Life Cycle
网页Simulium damnosum (the most widely known), and S. neavei vector the filarial parasite Onchocerca volvulus that causes human onchocerciasis (‘oncho’) or river blindness in several East and West African countries. S. ochraceum, a smaller species, is the most common vector of the parasite in Mexico and several Central and South American countries.
Simulium species — black flies or buffalo gnats
网页Black flies, or buffalo gnats, of the genus Simulium are dipterans that have an essentially free-living life cycle during which the adult males and females blood feed on a variety of mammals, including people, and birds. Black flies breed in white water in rivers and streams, are strong fliers and tend to attack in swarms.
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