Description of Simulium damascenoi (Diptera: Simuliidae) Male and the Black-Fly Species from the State of Amapá, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Hamada, Neusa
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Outros Autores: Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Luz, Sérgio Luíz Bessa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do INPA
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/14537
• topic: Brasil; Controlled Study; Ecology; Fly; Insect; Larva; Male; Microbial Identification; Nonhuman; Simulium; Simulium Damascenoi; Simulium Siolii; Simulium Tergospinosum; Animals; Classification; Ecosystem; Fly; Histology; Diptera; Hexapoda; Insecta; Simuliidae; Simulium Nigricoxum; Animal; Brasil; Ecosystem; Male; Simuliidae

Five species are included in the Simulium siolii group, which is placed in the subgenus Psaroniocompsa (Diptera: Simuliidae). Of these five species, only two (Simulium siolii Py-Daniel and Simulium tergospinosum Hamada) have been described in all their life stages, except eggs. Knowledge of the taxonomic characters of all life stages of a species is important in order to clarify interspecific and higher-level taxonomic relationships. The objectives of the present study are to describe the male of Simulium damascenoi Py-Daniel, to provide a list of black-fly species their bionomics and distributions in the state of Amapá, Brazil, and to provide an identification key for larvae and pupae for these species.