{"id":468,"date":"2015-08-06T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2015-08-26T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:01:06","slug":"culicids-and-tabanids","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/culicids-and-tabanids\/","title":{"rendered":"Culicids and Tabanids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Culicidae<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Culex pipiens <\/i>(Northern House Mosquito)<\/li>\n<li><i>Aedes canadensis<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Anopheles quadrimaculatus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Anopheles pseudopunctapennis<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Psorophora ferox<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tabanidae<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Tabanus abdominalis<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus americanus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus aranti<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus atratus <\/i>(Black Horse Fly)<\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus calens<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus catenatus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus chiliopterus fronto<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus crepuscularis<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus fairchildi<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus fulvulus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus fuscicostatus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus lineola <\/i>(Striped Horse Fly)<\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus limbatinervris<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus longiusculus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus molestus mixus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus maculatus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus mularis<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus nigripes<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus nigrescens<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus pallidescens<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus petiolatus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus pumilus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus quinquevittatus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus sackeni<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus sparus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus sulcifrons<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus subniger<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus subsimulus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus superjumentarius<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Tabanus trimaculatus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Leucotabanus sp.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Hybomitra carolinesis<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Hybomitra lasiopthalma<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Chrysops abberans<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Chrysops delicatus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Chrysops impuctus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Chrysops moechus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Chrysops upsilon<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This list of tabanids and culicids was compiled by John W. McDowell\u00a0 (Professor Emeritus of Biology) and his students.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/facultyweb.berry.edu\/jgraham\/malaise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"250\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nFormer Berry Student William Nicholson with Malaise Trap<\/p>\n<p>During the 1980s several students worked with Professor John McDowell on the dynamics of tabanid populations on the Berry College Campus.\u00a0 Tabanids are the familiar horse flies and deer flies.\u00a0 Many are serious pests of livestock and people.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson and McDowell (1983) studied seasonal patterns of horse fly distribution and abundance on the Berry College Campus, where extensive beef and dairy herds are coupled with ideal horse fly breeding habitat.\u00a0 In 1981 and 1982, they collected horseflies of three genera and twenty-four species in Townes Malaise and modified Manitoba traps.\u00a0 Eight of the more abundant species showed seasonal patterns of abundance.\u00a0 For example, <i>Hybomitra lasiopthalma <\/i>was abundant during the early season, from late April to late May.\u00a0 <i>Tabanus sparus<\/i>, <i>T. quinquevittatus<\/i>, <i>T. molestus mixus<\/i>, <i>T. petiolatus<\/i>, <i>T. fulvulvus, <\/i>and<i> T. abdominalis <\/i>were abundant during the middle of the season, from late May to early September.\u00a0 <i>Tabanus<\/i> <i>cheliopterus fronto <\/i>was abundant later in the season<i>.\u00a0 <\/i>Of all the tabanids, <i>T. quinquevittatus<\/i> was abundant for the longest time.\u00a0 Overall, the most abundant tabanid on campus was <i>T. molestus mixis<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Bickel and McDowell (1984) again studied the seasonal abundance of horse flies on Berry Campus, in 1982 and 1983.\u00a0 The most abundant species was <i>Tabanus molestus mixus, <\/i>making up 37 and 40 percent of each season&#8217;s collection.\u00a0 The seasonal abundance of this species was consistent from year to year; in both years they were present from the first week of June to the last week of July.\u00a0 Peak abundance was in the first week of July.\u00a0 In both years, <i>T. molestus mixus<\/i>, <i>T. fulvulus<\/i>, and <i>T. quinquevittatus<\/i> were among the five most abundant species on campus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/facultyweb.berry.edu\/jgraham\/tabanus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nSeasonal variation in tabanid abundance (1982)<\/p>\n<p>The five most abundant species of horse flies over the entire three-year study were:<\/p>\n<p>Tabanid Species\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Number Collected<\/p>\n<p><i>Tabanus molestus mixus<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2257<br \/>\n<i>Tabanus fulvulus\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1254<br \/>\n<i>Tabanus sulcifrons<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 942<br \/>\n<i>Tabanus quinquevittatus<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 618<br \/>\n<i>Tabanus sparus\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 289<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><b>References<\/b>Bickel, Julie Ann and John W. McDowell. 1984.\u00a0 Comparison of seasonal patterns of horsefly (Diptera: Tabanidae) populations on Berry Campus.\u00a0 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson, William L. and John W. McDowell. 1983. Seasonal patterns of horsefly (Diptera: Tabanidae) populations on Berry Campus.\u00a0 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>Last Updated 6 August 2015<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: xx-small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &nbsp; Culicidae Culex pipiens (Northern House Mosquito) Aedes canadensis Anopheles quadrimaculatus Anopheles pseudopunctapennis Psorophora ferox Tabanidae Tabanus abdominalis Tabanus americanus Tabanus aranti Tabanus atratus (Black Horse Fly) Tabanus calens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-468","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}