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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Arthropods > Insecta > Pterygota > Neoptera > Holometabola > Diptera > Nematocera > Culicomorpha > Simuliidae

Preferred term

Simuliidae  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Black Flies
  • Blackflies
  • Black Fly
  • Blackfly
  • Flies, Black
  • Fly, Black

Note

  • for killing Simuliidae with insecticides, see note at INSECTICIDES; buffalo gnats are indexed here

Scope note

  • A family of insects in the order DIPTERA, which include black flies, buffalo gnats and simulies. Several species are intermediate hosts (vectors) for the parasitic disease ONCHOCERCIASIS.

History note

  • 84

In other languages

  • mäkärät

    Finnish

  • mäkärien heimo
  • Simuliidae
  • Knott

    Swedish

  • Simulium
  • Svarta flugor

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012843

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