1985 Volume 36 Issue 1 Pages 67-69
Investigations on blackflies and their pathogens were carried out in 1977 and 1983 on the islands of Fukue and Nakamichi, the Goto Archipelago, Nagasaki, Japan. Six simuliid species (Simulium uchidai, S. aureohirtum, S. bidentatum, S. aokii, S. arakawae and S. japonicum) were collected for the first time from this archipelago. S. aureohirtum proved to be autogenus. The pupal gills of S. japonicum from Fukue Island were different from those on Nakamichi Island. Infections of blackfly larvae by parasites were rarely observed; out of 236 simuliid larvae examined, only one and five larvae were infected with mermithid and microsporidan parasites, respectively.
