Simuliidae
Also known as black fly, black flies, blackfly, blackflies
famiglia di insetti
AI overview
Simuliidae is a family of small flies commonly known as blackflies or buffalo gnats. These insects are important because their larvae live in flowing freshwater streams and rivers, and adult females bite humans and animals to feed on blood, sometimes transmitting diseases like onchocerciasis (river blindness) in tropical regions.
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Species
blackflies
Simuliidae
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilySimuliidae
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Research
2,245 papers- FAMILY SIMULIIDAE.Zootaxa · 2016
- The biodiversity of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Indonesia.Acta tropica · 2018
- Evolution, epidemiology, and population genetics of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae).Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2010
Article · Italiano
I Simulidi (Simuliidae , 1834) sono una famiglia cosmopolita di insetti dell'ordine dei ditteri (Nematocera: Culicomorpha), composta da specie con femmine ematofaghe, possibili agenti di trasmissione di microrganismi patogeni a spese di uccelli e mammiferi. In Trentino-Alto Adige sono noti con il nome vernacolare di musolini ed in lingua veneta sono noti come mussati.
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