Lecture 2 (70~) Flashcards
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what is the family of sub order brachycera
Family tabanidae
*Family Tabanidae
This family includes horse flies (what is the genus?) and deer flies (what is the genus?).
They are heavy bodied, robust dipterans with powerful wings and very large eyes. They are swift fliers.
Tabanus spp.
Chrysops spp.
*Family Tabanidae
These flies are the largest in the dipteran group Only the ____ feed on vertebrate blood.
Horse flies are larger than deer flies; many horse flies are highly colored.
females
*Family Tabanidae
the eyes of Males are ____ while females are _____
holoptic
dichoptic
*Family Tabanidae
Life Cycle
Adults lay eggs under leaves overhanging bodies of water. _____ eggs can be laid in this manner.
These eggs hatch in about ___ days in ideal conditions (one week in colder weather) and drop off to the water.
100-800 eggs
2-3 days
*Family Tabanidae
Life Cycle
The larvae are aquatic and carnivorous. Reports have indicated larvae biting on people on bodies of water. The larval stage can last for ____ months with up to 6-13 larval stages.
The larva will go underground to pupate.
The pupal stage will last from __ weeks.
2-3 months
1-3 weeks
*Family Tabanidae
Life Cycle
Adults have a _____ feeding habit. Females of both species feed in the vicinity of open water and lacerate tissues and lap up the oozing blood.
They feed a number of times in multiple feeding sites before they become replete
diurnal intermittent
*Family Tabanidae
Life Cycle
These flies feed primarily on _____ which become restless. They mainly target the underside of the abdomen, the legs, or the neck and withers.
Even if the flies leave the host, blood continues to ooze from the open wound
large animals
Pathogenic Effects of Horse and Deer Flies
They can transmit:
____ - a bacterial disease characterized by sudden death, with leakage of uncoagulated blood from openings.
Anthrax
Pathogenic Effects of Horse and Deer Flies
They can transmit:
_____ - a bacterial septicemia that can cause increased RR and PR, coughing, diarrhea, ulceration, lymphadenopathy, and hepatosplenomegaly.
Tularemia
Pathogenic Effects of Horse and Deer Flies
They can transmit:
____ - a bacterial disease characterized by progressive anemia.
____ - is characterized by generalized weakness, hemorrhages on mucous membrane, epistaxis, and death
Anaplasmosis
Equine Infectious Anemia
Pathogenic Effects of Deer Flies
They serve as intermediate host of:
____ - is a nematode worm that causes skin and eye diseases as it can travel throughout subcutaneous tissues.
Loa Loa
Control of Horse and Deer Flies
Horse flies and deer flies are challenging to control. As many insecticides need ample amount of exposure to the parasites before killing them, the _____ of these flies can make them not be exposed long enough for the insecticide to have an effect
feeding habits
what are the 7 family of sub order cyclorrhapha
muscidae
glossinidae
calliphoridae
sarcophagidae
gasterophilidae
oestridae
hippoboscidae
*Family Muscidae
This Family consists of many biting and non‐biting genera, the latter commonly referred to as nuisance flies.
Major genera of veterinary importance include:
Common name?
Musca (____)
Stomoxys (____)
Haematobia (____)
Hydrotaea (____)
houseflies and related flies
stable flies
horn flies, buffalo flies
sweat and head flies
*Family Muscidae
What genus are non-sucking and non-biting flies. They have a lapping mouthpart with their labella being fleshy.
This labella is covered with pseudotrachea adapted for taking up fluids
Genus Musca
Musca species of veterinary importance:
Common name?
Musca domestica - ____
Musca autumnalis - _____
Musca sorbens - ____
Musca vetustissima - ____
Musca domestica - housefly
Musca autumnalis - face fly / autumn housefly
Musca sorbens - bazaar fly / eye seeking fly
Musca vetustissima - bush fly
Life Cycle of Houseflies
Adults lay up to ____ at a time in animal manure or any decaying or fermenting organic matter.
Batches of eggs are laid at 3–4 day intervals throughout the female fly’s life. The maggots hatch from the eggs within _____.
150 eggs
8-12 hours
Life Cycle of Houseflies
The maggots will have 3 larval stages within __ days before they pupate. They will feed on the organic matter present. An imago will emerge from the pupa in 4-5 days
5 days
Houseflies are diurnal, and after a full meal, they regurgitate back food ____).
They also deposit feces on food (_____). About 90 percent of all flies occurring in human habitations are houseflies.
(vomit drop / vomit spot
flyspecks
Pathogenic Effects of Houseflies
They can transmit:
____ - causes high fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
____ - signs include resp. distress, emaciation, lethargy, low-grade, fluctuating fever.
____ - causes an acute diarrheal infection
Typhoid fever
Tuberculosis
Cholera
Pathogenic Effects of Houseflies
They serve as intermediate host of:
____ - tapeworms that mainly affects fowls.
____. - a roundworm affecting horses.
Choanotaenia infundibulum & Raillietina tetragona
Habronema spp
*Family Muscidae
What species?
They are called face flies because they gather around the eyes and muzzles of production animals, particularly cattle. Their mouthparts are adapted for sponging up saliva, tears, and mucus.
They are not classified as blood feeders due to their mouthparts but they follow blood-feeding flies, disturb them during the feeding process, and then lap up the blood and body fluids that accumulate on the host’s skin.
Musca autumnalis
Pathogenic Effects of Face Flies
They can transmit:
____ - bacterial disease characterized by blepharospasm, conjunctivitis, lacrimation, and varying degrees of corneal opacity and ulceration.
Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis