Quiz 9 Flashcards
(51 cards)
Which insect causes sweet itch and summer dermatitis?
Culicoides
Which insect is the IH for leucocytozoan? and what are the cs
Simulium
Emaciation, dehydration, convulsions leading to death
Which insect has spotted wings?
And what do the eggs need in order to develop?
Culicoides
Blood
What does the proboscis looks like for culicoides?
Short-blood sucking
Which insects larvae requires moving water for development?
Simulium
How does the female black fly eat?
With its lacerating mouthparts that have serrations that will feed from the pool of blood
Describe the clicidae
Wings with scales on veins
Long proboscis
Plumose antennae in males
and short haired on females
Which group has filamentous antennae
free living larvae
The adults are of importance for annoyance, they are IH, and vectors
Nematocera
Who is the IH for Onchocerca?
Simulium
volvulus: river blindness
lienalis: cattle, dermatitis, inflam of skin and connective tissue
What kind of water does Culicoides prefer?
Standing water
Who is the IH for Equine cutaneous onchocerciasis?
what else are they are an IH for?
Culicoides
Haemoproteus in birds
Culicoides is a vector for what dz?
Bluetongue
African horse sickness
Who is the IH for leishmania
Sand fly
Which insect is very sm with hairy bodies and wings?
Sand fly
What are the different kinds of leishmania
Visceral, cutaneous, and mucocutaneous.
What else do sandlfies transmit?
Bartonella
3 day fever virus?
What are the 2 insects under the brachycera?
Tabanomorpha
Muscomorpha
Which one has a 3 segmented antennae, free living larvae? What is their improtance
Tabanomorpha
Blood loss and vectors
Which one has aristate antennae with free living or parasitic larvae and hwat is their importance?
Muscomorpha
Vectors and economic loss
Who has banded wings, with flattened bladelike and sponging mouthparts?
Chrysops
Do only the females take blood meals in tabanomorphs?
yes
Which insect causes deep painful wounds causing animals that are being attacked to not rest or feed properly?
Horse Fly—Tabanus
Tabanomoprhs are IH for?
Trypanosoma
EIA
Elaeophora schneideri
What CS does elaeophora schneideri cause?
Blindness, and necrosis of the skin on the head in elk