A Guide to Medical Entomology

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction to medical entomology....Pages 1-4
Introduction to the arthropods (insects, mites, ticks etc.)....Pages 5-19
Introduction to the order Diptera — mosquitoes, horseflies, houseflies, tsetse flies etc....Pages 20-21
Introduction to the mosquitoes (Order Diptera: Family Culicidae): classification, morphology, life—cycle and control principles....Pages 22-43
Anopheles mosquitoes (Order Diptera: Family Culicidae, Subfamily Anophelinae)....Pages 44-52
Culicine mosquitoes (Order Diptera: Family Culicidae, Subfamily Culicinae)....Pages 53-70
Blackflies (Order Diptera: Family Simuliidae)....Pages 71-77
Phlebotomine sandflies (Order Diptera: Family Psychodidae)....Pages 78-82
Biting midges (Order Diptera: Family Ceratopogonidae)....Pages 83-87
Horseflies, deerflies and clegs (Order Diptera: Family Tabanidae)....Pages 88-94
Tsetse flies (Order Diptera: Family Glossinidae)....Pages 95-101
Houseflies, related flies and stableflies (Order Diptera: Family Muscidae)....Pages 102-112
Myiasis — producing flies, blowflies, bluebottles, greenbottles and fleshflies (Order Diptera: Families Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae)....Pages 113-121
Myiasis and warble and botflies (Order Diptera: Families Cuterebridae, Oestridae and Gasterophilidae)....Pages 122-126
Fleas (Order Siphonaptera: Families Pulicidae, Leptopsyllidae and Ceratophyllidae)....Pages 127-135
Lice (Order Anoplura: Families Pediculidae and Phthiridae)....Pages 136-141
Bedbugs (Order Hemiptera: Family Cimicidae)....Pages 142-144
Triatomine bugs (Order Hemiptera: Family Reduviidae, Subfamily Triatominae)....Pages 145-149
Cockroaches (Order Dictyoptera)....Pages 150-153
Soft ticks (Order Metastigmata: Family Argasidae)....Pages 154-159
Hard ticks (Order Metastigmata: Family Ixodidae)....Pages 160-166
Scabies mites (Order Astigmata: Family Sarcoptidae)....Pages 167-170
Scrub typhus mites (Order Prostigmata: Family Trombiculidae)....Pages 171-174
Miscellaneous mites of minor medical importance (Order Prostigmata: Families Demodicidae and Pyemotidae: Order Astigmata: Families Acaridae, and Pyroglyphidae: Order Mesostigmata: Family Dermanyssidae)....Pages 175-179
Miscellaneous poisonous, venomous and allergic arthropods....Pages 180-183
Methods for dissecting arthropod vectors to determine infection rates....Pages 184-188
Methods for collecting and preserving medically important arthropods....Pages 189-195
Insecticides and insecticide resistance....Pages 196-203
Back Matter....Pages 204-226