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Biting-mouthed and other Noxious Diptera which may be Disease Carriers.
[Amongst the division Brachycera (as meant in this work) we get several groups of flies which, like the fleas and mosquitoes, are partially parasitic on man, the adults, mainly in the female sex, being provided with a piercing mouth with which they extract the blood of man and animals. The importance of these parasites is not the mere fact that they feed upon our blood, but that they often carry germs from man to man (tsetse-flies and trypanosomiasis, Tabanidæ and anthrax). Amongst the most important biting-mouthed Diptera in this section are the following: Tabanidæ, or gad-flies; Glossinæ, or tsetse-flies; and certain other Muscidæ. Some of the exotic Asilidæ and a few Leptidæ also bite man.
Family. Tabanidæ (Gad-flies).
[The Tabanidæ have a broad, rather flattened body and a large head; eyes united in the male (except in some Chrysops). The antennæ are composed of three segments, have the third joint composed of five to eight annuli—in Chrysops they are fairly long. The proboscis is projecting, and sometimes much elongated. The legs are moderately stout. The venation of the wings is shown in fig. [415].