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Notes on the blood-sucking insects of Eastern Tropical Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

S. A. Neave
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Owing to the very limited time available during my stay in England, it has not seemed advisable to attempt any general account of so extensive a region as that covered by my recent journey through Tropical East Africa. This region extends practically from the Zambesi River to the Upper Nile, and is included in 12 degrees of longitude and no less than 22 parallels of latitude. It comprises all types of country from open plains to dense forests, and elevations from sealevel to 10,000 feet. This area includes, in addition to a large portion of the Eastern Tropical subregion, a small portion of the South African subregion and. in Uganda, of the Western Tropical subregion. The entomological study of so large an area involves a great variety of interesting questions and an even more bewildering diversity of insect life. The economic relations of these numerous species with man and his domestic animals present a large number of problems, in regard to many of which much additional evidence is required.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , November 1912 , pp. 275 - 323
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1912

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* Bull. Ent. Res. I, p. 311.Google Scholar

* Austen, , Bull. Ent. Res. III, p. 122 (1912).Google Scholar

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* In Austen's “Handbook of the Tsetse-flies,” p. 104, the elevation of the Tsavo R. on the Uganda Railway (where this species and G. longipenms occur) is given in error as 6,000 feet; this should be about 1,500 feet.

* The record of this species from German East Africa needs confirmation. It is not impossible that the specimens which were identified as G. tachinoides may prove to have been really G. austeni, Newst.