Colonization of Pacific Islands by Black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae)

Will K. Reeves; Peter H. Adler

doi:10.4289/0013-8797.113.3.371

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Will K. Reeves,¹ Peter H. Adler²

¹(WKR) USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM/PHR), 2947 5th Street Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45
²(PHA) Department of Entomology, Soils & Plant Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

Abstract

Surveys of black flies on four Pacific islands revealed four species on Okinawa, two on Guam, and none on Rota or Saipan. Simulium aureohirtum Brunetti represents a new record for Guam and the only black fly that is not precinctive to Oceania. The banding patterns of the larval polytene chromosomes of this species are identical among populations from Guam, Okinawa, and Thailand, suggesting that the insular colonizations might be recent.

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Will K. Reeves and Peter H. Adler "Colonization of Pacific Islands by Black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae)," Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 113(3), 371-376, (1 July 2011). https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.113.3.371

Published: 1 July 2011

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