Atylotus agrestis

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Atylotus agrestis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tabanidae
Genus: Atylotus
Species:
A. agrestis
Binomial name
Atylotus agrestis
(Wiedemann, 1828) [1]
Synonyms
  • Tabanus agrestis Wiedemann, 1828
  • Tabanus albicans Macquart, 1834
  • Tabanus bipunctatus Wulp, 1885
  • Tabanus ditoeniatus Macquart, 1838
  • Tabanus lacustris Ghidini, 1938
  • Tabanus pyrrhus Walker, 1850

Atylotus agrestis is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. [1]

Contents

Distribution

Originally described as Tabanus agrestis in 1828 by Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann from a series of specimens collected in Egypt. [2] Widespread in Palearctic and Afrotropical realms. [3] [4] Presently widely distributed from Egypt and Cyprus westwards to Libya and Algeria, and eastwards through Saudi Arabia and Iraq [5] to India, Sri Lanka, and China. [6] In the last decades Atylotus agrestis continuously extended its distribution northwards: it recently became abundant in northeastern Algeria, [7] from where it was absent in 1987, [8] and since the late 1990’s it has been regularly recorded from the Sinai Peninsula, in Israel along the coastal plain and the Rift Valley, and a few years later it appeared in Lebanon and in Saudi Arabia. [9] [10] In Europe the species was first observed in Cyprus in 2015 and in the following years it was confirmed to be a stable element of the local fauna, the first record from Italy, the Pantelleria island, was confirmed in 2017. [11]

Blood feeding hosts and veterinary relevance

Known hosts in Europe and the Levant are horses, camels and men, [12] [13] in Africa—horses and cattle. [14] [15] In the Arabian Peninsula and Africa this species is an important vector for Trypanosoma parasites causing the disease called surra. Surra is a major disease in camels, equines, cattle and dogs, in which it can often be fatal. [16] [17] [18]

References

  1. 1 2 "Atylotus agrestis (Wiedemann, 1828)". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1828). Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten. Vol. Th.1 (1828). Hamm: in der Schulzischen Buchhandlung.
  3. ↑ "Nomenclator Detail Record". diptera.org. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  4. ↑ Oldroyd, Harold (1954). The Horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Ethiopian Region. Vol. 2: Tabanus and related genera. London: British Museum (Natural History). p. 114.
  5. ↑ Al-Talafha, H. A.; Amr, Z. S. (2024). "Tabanidae Fauna (Order: Diptera) of the Arab Countries in the Middle East". Ecologica Montenegrina. 71: 53–85. doi:10.37828/em.2024.71.7.
  6. ↑ Yang, Ding; Zhang, Lili; Zhang, Kuiyan (2018). Species catalogue of China. Volume 2. Animals. Insecta (VI). Diptera (2): Orthorrhaphous Brachycera (in Chinese). Beijing: Science Press. pp. 1–45. ISBN   9787030569202.
  7. ↑ Zeghouma, D.; Bouslama, Z.; Duvallet, G.; Amr, Z. S. (2018). "Horse flies and their seasonal abundance in El Tarf Province of northeastern Algeria". Journal of Vector Ecology. 43 (2): 305–311. doi:10.1111/jvec.12314. PMID   30408290.
  8. ↑ Leclercq, M.; Maldès, J. M. (1987). "Inventaire des Tabanidae d'Algérie et du Maroc et description d'une espèce nouvelle (Diptera, Brachycera)". Nouvelle Revue Entomologique. 4: 79–84.
  9. ↑ Al Dhafer, H. M.; Dawah, H. A.; Abdullah, M. A. (2009). "Tabanidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia". Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 16 (2): 77–83. Bibcode:2009SJBS...16...77A. doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2009.10.004. PMC   3730872 . PMID   23961046.
  10. ↑ Müller, G. C.; Zeegers, T.; Hogsette, J. A.; Revay, E. E.; Kravchenko, V. D.; Leshvanov, A.; Schlein, Y. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Lebanon with remarks on ecology and zoogeography: Pangoniinae and Chrysopsinae". Journal of Vector Ecology. 37 (1): 216–220. doi:10.1111/j.1948-7134.2012.00219.x. PMID   22548556.
  11. ↑ Müller, Günter C.; Prozorov, Alexey M.; Traore, Mohamed M.; Revay, Edita E.; Hogsette, Jerome A.; Kline, Daniel; Chaskopoulou, Alexandra; Prozorova, Tatiana A.; Volkova, Julia S.; Diarra, Rabiatou A.; Petrányi, Gergely; Schneider, Tom; Beck, Robert H.-T.; Ignatev, Nikolai; Yakovlev, Roman V. (2023). "The Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Greek islands and Cyprus: An annotated checklist with remarks on ecology, zoogeography, and new records on the East Mediterranean fauna". Ecologica Montenegrina. 67: 45–65. doi:10.37828/em.2023.67.7.
  12. ↑ Müller, G. C.; Revay, E. E.; Hogsette, J. A.; Zeegers, T.; Kline, D.; Kravchenko, V. D.; Schlein, Y. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Sinai Peninsula Egypt with remarks on ecology and zoogeography". Acta Tropica. 122 (2): 205–211. doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.01.013. PMID   22289670.
  13. ↑ Müller, Günter C.; Prozorov, Alexey M.; Traore, Mohamed M.; Revay, Edita E.; Hogsette, Jerome A.; Kline, Daniel; Chaskopoulou, Alexandra; Prozorova, Tatiana A.; Volkova, Julia S.; Diarra, Rabiatou A.; Petrányi, Gergely; Schneider, Tom; Beck, Robert H.-T.; Ignatev, Nikolai; Yakovlev, Roman V. (2023). "The Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Greek islands and Cyprus: An annotated checklist with remarks on ecology, zoogeography, and new records on the East Mediterranean fauna". Ecologica Montenegrina. 67: 45–65. doi:10.37828/em.2023.67.7.
  14. ↑ Abah, S.; Sevidzem, S. L.; Njan Nloga, A. M.; Paguem, A.; Mamoudou, A.; Mavoungou, J. F.; Zoli, A. (2020). ""Silent" circulation of Trypanosoma spp. in Tabanids (Diptera: Tabanidae) and Cattle in a Tsetse free Range land of Ngaoundere (Adamawa-Cameroon)". International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences. 14 (7): 2611–2618. doi:10.4314/ijbcs.v14i7.19.
  15. ↑ Mohamed-Ahmed, M. M.; Mihok, S. (2009). "Alighting of Tabanidae and muscids on natural and simulated hosts in the Sudan". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 99 (6): 561–571. doi:10.1017/S0007485309006580. PMID   19203405.
  16. ↑ Foil, L. D. (1989). "Tabanids as vectors of disease agents". Parasitology Today. 5 (3): 88–96. doi:10.1016/0169-4758(89)90009-4. PMID   15463186.
  17. ↑ Desquesnes, M.; Dia, M. L. (2003). "Mechanical transmission of Trypanosoma congolense in cattle by the African tabanid Atylotus agrestis". Experimental Parasitology. 105 (3–4): 226–231. doi:10.1016/j.exppara.2003.12.014. PMID   14990316.
  18. ↑ Desquesnes, M.; Holzmuller, Ph.; Lai, D.-H.; Dargantes, A.; Lun, Zh.-R.; Jittaplapong, S. (2013). "Trypanosoma evansi and Surra: A Review and Perspectives on Origin, History, Distribution, Taxonomy, Morphology, Hosts, and Pathogenic Effects". BioMed Research International. 2013: 1–22. doi: 10.1155/2013/194176 . PMC   3760267 . PMID   24024184.


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