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The Black Flies of Subtropical and Tropical Asia: Taxonomy and Biology

by Hiroyuki Takaoka
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789819952212
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer Nature
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  • Pages: 765
  • Original Price: EUR 199.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1069 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Systematic treatments of subgenera of the genus Simulium.- Chapter 3. Keys to identify 11 subgenera.- Chapter 4. Subgenus Asiosimulium.- Chapter 5. Subgenus Boophthora.- Chapter 6. Subgenus Byssodon.- Chapter 7. Subgenus Daviesellum.- Chapter 8. Subgenus Eusimulium.- Chapter 9. Subgenus Gomphostilbia.- Chapter 10. Subgenus Montisimulium.- Chapter 11. Subgenus Nevermannia.- Chapter 12. Subgenus Simulium.- Chapter 13. Subgenus Wallacellum.- Chapter 14. Subgenus Wilhelmia.- Chapter 15. Subgenus Asiosimulium.- Chapter 16. Subgenus Boophthora.- Chapter 17. Subgenus Byssodon.- Chapter 18. Subgenus Daviesellum.- Chapter 19. Subgenus Eusimulium.- Chapter 20. Subgenus Gomphostilbia.- Chapter 21. Subgenus Montisimulium.- Chapter 22. Subgenus Nevermannia.- Chapter 23. Subgenus Simulium.- Chapter 24. Subgenus Wallacellum.- Chapter 25. Subgenus Wilhelmia.- Chapter 26. India?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 27. Nepal?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 28. Bhutan?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 29. Myanmar?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 30. Sri Lanka?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 31. Thailand?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 32. Vietnam?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 33. Peninsular Malaysia?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 34. Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, Kalimantan)?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 35. Sunda Archipelago?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 36. East Indonesia?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 37. South China?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 38. Philippines?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 39. Taiwan?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.- Chapter 40. Nansei Islands (Japan) ?Overview, List of species, Identification keys.

Hiroyuki Takaoka has been a professor emeritus, Oita University, Japan, since 2010, and a visiting professor, Tropical Infectious Disease Research and Education Centre, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, since 2020. He was a professor, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universiti Malaya, from 2010 to 2017. His research interest is the taxonomy and parasite transmission of black flies. His contributions include the determination of the vector of human onchocerciasis in an Amazonas endemic area of Venezuela, the discoveries of a new zoonotic onchocerciasis and its vector in Japan, and the descriptions of three new subgenera and 524 new species of black flies. He received the academic award of Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology in 1995 for his extensive taxonomic and parasite transmission studies of black flies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America, and the academic award of "Prof. Ichiro Miyazaki" in 1996 for his creative works on zoonotic onchocerciasis.


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