PR Notice 2023-01; Appendix
Arthropod Pests | ||
Pest | Scientific Name | Public Health Importance/ Possible Clinical Significance |
Heteroptera | ||
True bugs | ||
Bed bug | Cimex lectularis | Bites, allergic reactions |
Tropical bed bug | Cimex hemipterus | |
Masked hunter | Reduvius personatus | Chagas disease, allergic reactions |
Large kissing bug | Triatoma rubrofasciata | Chagas disease, allergic reactions |
Bloodsucking conenose | Triatoma sanguisuga | |
Western bloodsucking conenose | Triatoma protracta | |
Diptera | ||
Horse & Deer Flies | ||
Horse flies | Tabanus spp. | Painful Bite, allergic reactions, mechanical transmission of anthrax |
Deer flies | Chrysops spp. | Painful Bite, allergic reactions, Tularemia |
Calyptrate Flies | ||
House fly | Musca domestica | Salmonellosis, Shigella, dysentery, myiasis, allergic reactions |
Stable fly | Stomoxys calcitrans | |
Little house fly | Fannia canicularis | |
Horse bot fly | Gasterophilus intestinalis | Ocular myiasis, cutaneous myiasis |
Nose bot fly | Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis | |
Torsalo (human bot fly) | Dermatobia hominus | |
Sheep ked | Melophagus ovinus | Myiasis |
Flesh flies | Sarcophagidae, including Sarcophaga and Wohlfahrtia spp. | Myiasis, mechanical vector of pathogens |
Blow flies | Calliphoridae, including Phaenicia and Calliphora spp. | Myiasis, mechanical vector of pathogens |
Screwworm | Cochliomyia hominivorax | Myiasis |
Secondary screwworm | Cochliomyia macellaria |
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