ARTHROPODS OF MEDICAL IMPORTANCE IN AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Abstract : The occurrence of insects and other arthropods of medical importance in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the islands of Oceania is summarized on the basis of a review of most of the available references in the scientific literature. The report includes, for each major group of arthropods, a listing of species and subspecies with biological and distributional data, tabulations of diseases or disease organisms transmitted, and literature citations. The groups of arthropods included, with the number of species or subspecies in parentheses, are: Mosquitoes (828), Black flies (58), Sand flies (6), Midges (44), Horse flies (750), Biting flies (7), Non-biting flies (9), Fleas (88), Bugs (2), Urticating and vesicating arthropods (13), Ticks (108), Mites (69), and Miscellaneous arthropods (18).