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New and little-Known Mesopotamian Blood-sucking Diptera (Families Simuliidae and Tabanidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

E. E Austen
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With the exception of a short paper published some two and a half years ago by Major Patton, which, however, deals only with Tabanidae,* little or nothing has hitherto appeared in print on the subject of Mesopotamian representatives of the two families mentioned in the title of the present contribution. It is therefore hoped that the following notes, however incomplete, may be of some slight assistance to collectors of blood-sucking flies who may be stationed in Mesopotamia, and may at the same time stimulate them to further efforts.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , November 1922 , pp. 275 - 290
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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page 275 note * Patton, Cf., “Some Notes on the Arthropods of Medical and Veterinary Importance in Mesopotamia, and on their Relation to Disease—Part I. The Gad Files of Mesopotamia”: Ind. Journ. Med. Res., Calcutta, vii, no. 4, pp. 735–750, pl. lxvii, text-figs, 1 and 2, April 1920.Google Scholar

page 275 note † For names and illustrations of colours used for descriptive purposes in the present paper, see Ridgway, , “Color Standards and Color Nomenclature” (Washington, D.C. Published by the Author, 1912).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 276 note * What would appear to be a variety or local race of S. bipunctatum occurring in Palestine is represented in the National Collection by a solitary ♀, which differs from the typical form in having the legs much more extensively infuscated; inter alia the front femora, except their extreme tips, are deep mouse-grey, the hind femora are broadly banded with dark brown before their distal extremities, and the front and hind tibiae, in addition to their dark tips, are each banded with dark brown just beyond the base. Apart from the details mentioned, there are no noticeable differences from the typical form. The type of this variety. which, in honour of its discoverer, may be termed Simulium bipunctatum var. buxtoni, var. n., was taken at Jericho, 1. i.1922 (P.A. Buxton), and subsequently presented to the British Museum by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

page 280 note * Krober, Cf. O, “Die Chrysops-Arten der paläarctischen Region nebst den Arten der angrenzenden Gebiete”: Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. Syst., Geogr. u. Biol. der Tiere, xliii, pp. 42, 50 (1920).Google Scholar

page 289 note * Cf. Dr. J. W. Scott Macfie’s note (Bull. Entom. Res., iii, p. 223, 1912) on the remarkable occurrence of both sexes of several species of Tabaninae on the branches of a “Chedia” tree at Ilorin, Northern Nigeria. In this case, however, the phenomenon was apparently due to the presence of a scale-insect (Ceroplastes egbarum, Ckll.), with which the tree was “heavily infested,” and to the honey-dew-like secretion on which the files appeared to be feeding.

page 289 note † Austen, Cf, Bull. Entom. Res., x, p. 302 (1920).Google Scholar

page 289 note ‡ Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Pe´tersbourg, St., xvii, p. 596 (1912).Google Scholar

page 289 note § Austen, Cf., loc. cit., p. 312, figs. 13, 14.Google Scholar