Female black flies of Simulium (Diptera: Simuliidae) collected on humans in Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam: description of a new species and notes on four species newly recorded from Vietnam

H Takaoka; M Sofian-Azirun; Z Ya'cob; C D Chen; K W Lau; H T Pham

Female black flies of Simulium (Diptera: Simuliidae) collected on humans in Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam: description of a new species and notes on four species newly recorded from Vietnam

Trop Biomed. 2014 Dec;31(4):742-8.

Authors

H Takaoka¹, M Sofian-Azirun¹, Z Ya'cob¹, C D Chen¹, K W Lau¹, H T Pham²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
² Insect Systematics Department, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam.

PMID: 25776600

Abstract

A total of 29 female black flies were captured by a hand net as they swarmed around humans in Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc Province, Vietnam. They included one species of the subgenus Gomphostilbia (Simulium (Gomphostilbia) asakoae Takaoka & Davies) and five species of the subgenus Simulium, of which one species is described as Simulium (Simulium) vietnamense sp. nov. and the other four species (S. (S.) chungi Takaoka & Huang, S. (S.) grossifilum Takaoka & Davies, S. (S.) maenoi Takaoka & Choochote, and S. (S.) rufibasis Brunetti) are newly recorded from Vietnam.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biodiversity*
Female
Humans
Microscopy
Simuliidae / anatomy & histology
Simuliidae / classification*
Vietnam