Dipteran predators of Simuliid blackflies: A worldwide review

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-132

  Werner, Doreen ^a   Pont, A C ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asilidae; Biocontrol; Biting pests; Blackfly larvae; Cannibalism; Ceratopogonidae; Chaoboridae; Chironomidae; Diptera; Dolichopodidae; Drosophilidae; Empididae; Ephydridae; Filarial vectors; Hybotidae; Lotic habitats; Muscidae; Phoridae; Scathophagidae; Simuliidae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; PEST CONTROL; PREDATOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLY; PARASITOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT VECTORS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ASILIDAE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHAOBORIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CRUSTACEA; DIPTERA; DIROFILARIA; DOLICHOPODIDAE; DROSOPHILIDAE; EMPIDIDAE; EPHYDRIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYBOTINAE; INVERTEBRATA; LEUCOCYTOZOON; MANSONELLA; MUSCIDAE; NEMATODA; ODONATA; ONCHOCERCA; PHORIDAE; PLECOPTERA; SCATHOPHAGIDAE; SIMULIIDAE; TRICHOPTERA; TURBELLARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038234952     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2003.00431.x     Document Type: Review

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