Nuisance Nonbiting Flies Such as Filth-Breeding Flies
EDISThis document provides an overview of filth-breeding flies, including house flies, greenbottle flies, bluebottle flies, secondary screwworm flies, vinegar flies, flesh flies, moth flies, eye gnats, humpbacked flies, and soldier flies.
P.G. Koehler
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New species of Sycorax (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2023 Moth flies of the subfamily Sycoracinae have been associated with anurans. Females of some species have been found feeding on the blood of these vertebrates.
Danilo Pacheco Cordeiro +2 more
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Description of Perithreticus neglectus sp. n. from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania (Diptera, Psychodidae) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The Psychodinae of the Afrotropical Region remain poorly understood. Slightly under 200 species have been described, but many countries have received very little attention from collectors and even countries where significant collection efforts have taken
Gunnar Kvifte
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Effectiveness of Modified Traps for Protection Against Fruit Flies on Mango
Jurnal Biodjati, 2020 Mango is one of the primary fruit export commodities in Indonesia. The productivity of mango can be increased by controlling the pest population, including fruit flies Bactrocera spp.
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The hitchhiker’s guide to Australia: the 18,000-km-long journey of Alepia viatrix Jaume-Schinkel, Kvifte, Weele & Mengual, 2022 (Diptera, Psychodidae) discovered through citizen science [PDF]
Check List, 2023 The Neotropical genus Alepia Enderlein, 1937 (Diptera, Psychodidae) is newly recorded in Australia. We present new geographical records for Alepia viatrix Jaume-Schinkel, Kvifte, Weele & Mengual, 2022, extending the range of this species by 18 ...
Santiago Jaume-Schinkel +3 more
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First record to Brazil of one genus and seven species of Psychodidae (Diptera) with further new records for 10 countries on the Neotropics [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2020 With a big territory and variety of biomes, Brazil is one of the most diverse countries in the World, with insects massively contributing to this diversity.
Danilo Pacheco Cordeiro
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No Detectable Fertility Benefit from a Single Additional Mating in Wild Stalk-Eyed Flies [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Multiple mating by female insects is widespread, and the explanation(s) for repeated mating by females has been the subject of much discussion.
Fowler, K +8 more
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Two new species of Arisemus (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Northeast Atlantic Forest, Brazil
EntomoBrasilis, 2021 Arisemus atlanticus Vilarinho, Araújo, Bravo & dos Santos sp. nov. and Arisemus benignoi Vilarinho, Araújo & Bravo sp. nov. are described from the Central Corridor of the Atlantic Forest.
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EntomoBrasilis, 2023 Psychoda Latreille is one of the largest genera of Psychodidae, with around 450 species, from which more than 130 are known from only one of the sexes. This is a result of the high diversity, sympatry of close related species and scarcity of diagnostic ...
Danilo Pacheco Cordeiro +2 more
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Optimization of moth-eye antireflection schemes for silicon solar cells [PDF]
, 2010 Nanostructured moth-eye antireflection schemes for silicon solar cells are simulated using rigorous coupled wave analysis and compared to traditional thin film coatings. The design of the moth-eye arrays is optimized for application to a laboratory cell (
Boden, Stuart, Bagnall, Darren
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