Striped Bodypainting Protects Against Horseflies [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Bodypainting is widespread in African, Australian and Papua New Guinean indigenous communities. Many bodypaintings use white or bright yellow/grey/beige stripes on brown skin.
Susanne Åkesson +2 more
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Why Do Horseflies Need Polarization Vision for Host Detection? Polarization Helps Tabanid Flies to Select Sunlit Dark Host Animals From the Dark Patches of the Visual Environment [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Horseflies (Tabanidae) are polarotactic, being attracted to linearly polarized light when searching for water or host animals. Although it is well known that horseflies prefer sunlit dark and strongly polarizing hosts, the reason for this preference is ...
Susanne Åkesson +2 more
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DNA barcoding of the horsefly fauna (Diptera, Tabanidae) of Croatia with notes on the morphology and taxonomy of selected species from Chrysopsinae and Tabaninae [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 In the Croatian fauna, horseflies (Tabanidae) are represented by 78 species belonging to two subfamilies, five tribes, and 10 genera. Identification of these species is based on morphological characteristics.
Stjepan Krčmar +3 more
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To the fauna of mosquitoes and horseflies (Diptera: Culicidae, Tabanidae) of natural and climatic zones of the Tyumen region [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The article summarizes and analyzes the materials of literary sources and the results of our own research on the inventory of species diversity of mosquitoes and horseflies in the Tyumen region.
Khlyzova Tatyana A.
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Sunlit zebra stripes may confuse the thermal perception of blood vessels causing the visual unattractiveness of zebras to horseflies [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Multiple hypotheses have been proposed for possible functions of zebra stripes. The most thoroughly experimentally supported advantage of zebra stripes is their visual unattractiveness to horseflies (tabanids) and tsetse flies.
Péter Takács +4 more
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The impact of climate changes on the ranges of invertebrates (Diptera, Molluska) in Tavush province of Armenia [PDF]
Юг России: экология, развитие, 2023 Aim. The work’s aim is to study the species composition of invertebrates (Insecta, Molluska) of the Tavush province of Armenia and changes of their ranges due to climatic conditions.Material and Methods.
V. S. Hovhannisyan +7 more
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Description of Tabanus rondoniensis (Diptera: Tabanidae), a new species of horsefly from the State of Rondônia, Brazil [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The genus Tabanus Linnaeus has a worldwide distribution and is the richest in species; however, it is probably not monophyletic. In the Neotropical Region, its richness is certainly underestimated, mainly due to the large number of species and the ...
Augusto Henriques +3 more
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Species diversity of blood-sucking Diptera in the Kurgan region [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The analysis of the literature data showed that 57 species of hematophagous Diptera insects are known for the territory of the Kurgan region. As a result of systematic long-term studies (2004-2021), 6 species were registered that were not previously ...
Khlyzova Tatyana A.
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Юг России: экология, развитие, 2022 Aim. The aim of the work is to study the biodiversity of certain invertebrates (Insecta, Molluska) of the Azat River gorge and their ecological and biological features.Material and Methods. Invertebrates collected in the Garni‐Goght‐
V. S. Hovhannisyan +7 more
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A method for protecting herd horses from blood-sucking insects that ensures organic food production
Российский паразитологический журнал, 2023 The purpose of the research is to develop a method for protecting herd horses from dangerous blood-sucking dipterans that ensures organic meat production without pesticides.Materials and methods.
A. D. Reshetnikov, A. I. Barashkova
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