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.
journal_name
Trop Biomedjournal_title
Tropical biomedicineauthors
Takaoka H,Sofian-Azirun M,Ya'cob Z,Chen CD,Lau KW,Pham HTsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-12-01 00:00:00pages
742-8issue
4eissn
0127-5720issn
2521-9855journal_volume
31pub_type
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