First report of Symphoromyia immaculata (Diptera: Rhagionidae) from Italy, with the description of its attack and blood-feeding behaviour on human hosts | Zendy

Federico Romiti | Zendy; Claudio De Liberato | Zendy; Adele Magliano | Zendy; Arianna Ermenegildi | Zendy; Irene Del Lesto | Zendy; P.L.T. Beuk | Zendy

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First report of <em>Symphoromyia immaculata</em> (Diptera: Rhagionidae) from Italy, with the description of its attack and blood-feeding behaviour on human hosts

Author(s) -

Federico Romiti,

Claudio De Liberato,

Adele Magliano,

Arianna Ermenegildi,

Irene Del Lesto,

P.L.T. Beuk

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of entomological and acarological research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 2279-7084

pISSN - 2038-324X

DOI - 10.4081/jear.2021.9315

Subject(s) - biology , zoology , biting , blood sucking , ecology

Specimens from a swarm of Symphoromyia immaculata (Meigen, 1820) were collected in the act of biting people in a farmhouse in Central Italy. The species is distributed in West and Central Europe and eastwards in Northwest Russia. This is the first record of S. immaculata in Italy, with a documented case of humans suffering from bites of this species.

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