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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Arthropods > Insecta > Pterygota > Neoptera > Holometabola > Diptera > Psychodidae > Phlebotomus

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Phlebotomus  

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Note

  • blood-sucking fly, the vector of PAPPATACI FEVER see PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER & other dis; /microbiol /parasitol /virol permitted; do not use /drug eff for insecticides: TN 111

Scope note

  • A genus of PSYCHODIDAE which functions as the vector of a number of pathogenic organisms, including LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; Bartonella bacilliformis, and the Pappataci fever virus (SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS).

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010691

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