Most people know the ceratopogonid midges as "no-see-ums" and "sandflies" and have encountered them while on a fishing trip or on a holiday to the seaside, countryside or to mountain regions. The annoyance they give from their bites invariably engenders an abrupt fall in morale and produces an instant strong desire to be elsewhere. As Kettle (1962) has put it, "one midge is an entomological curiosity, a thousand ean be hell!" The term "sandfly" is inappropriate for these insects as it leads to a confusion of the group with the true sandfly Phlebotomus (Psyohodidae) and certain blackflies (Simuliidae). [...]
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116837 |
Date | January 1965 |
Creators | Chan, Kai-Lok. |
Contributors | Leroux, E. (Supervisor) |
Publisher | McGill University |
Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Format | application/pdf |
Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Entomology. ) |
Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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