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Artificial Diets for Blood-Feeding Insects: A Review

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Advances in Disease Vector Research

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Blood feeding has evolved in four orders of insects, but only in the order Anoplura do all members, nymphs and adults, feed exclusively on vertebrate blood, whereas in the order Siphonaptera only the adult members feed exclusively on blood. All members, including nymphs and adults, of the family Cimicidae and subfamily Triatominae, in the order Hemiptera, feed exclusively on blood. Blood-feeding dependency is more versatile in the order Diptera than in the preceding orders. Blood-feeding dipterans may be categorized into four basic groups; group 1, only the larvae feed exclusively on blood, for example, the Congo floor maggot and certain other Calliphorid species whose maggots feed exclusively on nestling birds; group 2, adult male and females feed exclusively on blood and the larvae are indirectly dependent on blood because they are nourished internally by the mother, for example, tsetse flies and sheep keds; group 3, only the adult females feed exclusively on blood, for example, anautogenous mosquitoes, horse flies, and blood-sucking gnats; and group 4, both sexes are obligatory blood-feeders, examples here are stable flies and horn flies.

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DeLoach, J.R., Spates, G. (1991). Artificial Diets for Blood-Feeding Insects: A Review. In: Harris, K.F. (eds) Advances in Disease Vector Research. Advances in Disease Vector Research, vol 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9044-2_5

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