Chrysops /Chrys·ops/ (kris´ops) a genus of small bloodsucking horse flies, including C. disca´lis, a vector of tularemia in the western United States, and C. sila´cea, an intermediate host of Loa loa.
Chry·sops (kr  s ps , kr sps)n. A genus of biting flies, including the deer fly species and others that transmit diseases to humans and animals. |
Chrysops
a genus of blood-sucking tropical flies of the family Tabanidae. C. discalis (deer fly), a vector of tularemia in the western USA, and C. silacea, an intermediate host of Loa loa, a filarial parasite. Called also chrysops flies.
Chrysops discalis, Chrysops dimidiata, Chrysops silacea
these flies cause painful bites and worry livestock when they are about. They also mechanically transmit anthrax, anaplasmosis, the virus of infectious equine anemia, tularemia and the larvae of the filariid parasite Loa loa. A number of trypanosome species are also transmitted mechanically by this important means.
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