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Original Articles

The Bionomics of Chrysops Silacea Austen, 1907

I.—The Longevity and Food Requirements of the Adult Fly

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Pages 1-6 | Received 24 May 1962, Published online: 17 Mar 2016

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  • Crewe, W. (1961). The rate of development of larvae of Loa loa in Chrysops silacea at Kumba, and the effect of temperature upon it. Ann. trop. Med. Parasit., 55, 211.
  • Duke, B. O. L., Crewe, W., and Beesley, W. N. (1956). The relationship between the size of the blood- meal taken in by Chrysops silacea, the development of the fly's ovaries, and the development of the microfilariae of Loa loa taken in with the blood-meal. Ibid., 50, 283.
  • Kershaw, W. E., Chalmers, T. E., and Duke, B. O. L. (1954). Studies on the intake of microfilariae by their insect vectors, their survival, and their effect on the survival of their vectors. IV: The survival-rate of Chrysops under laboratory conditions, and the effect upon it of Loa loa. Ibid., 48, 329.
  • Kershaw, W. E., Chalmers, T. E., and Duke, B. O. L. Plackett, R. L., Moore, P. J., and Williams, P. (1957). Studies on the intake of microfilariae by their insect vectors, their survival, and their effect on the survival of their vectors. IX: The pattern of the frequency of the blood-meals taken in by Chrysops silacea and of the survival of the fly in natural conditions in the rain-forest of the British Cameroons and on a rubber estate in the Niger delta. Ibid., 51, 26.
  • Nicholas, W. L. (1953). The bionomics of Culicoides austeni, vector of Acanthocheilonema perstans in the rain-forest of the British Cameroons, together with notes on C. grahamii and other species which may be vectors in the same area. Ibid., 47, 187.

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