ARTHROPDS

Moaad_Ab.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
EMPHASIS HEADING 1 ‫ هلبا حاجات‬................................... 1

2
Anopheles
mosquito.

How to recognize: ‫مش مطالب بيهم في االمتحان لكل‬

.‫ لكن يساعدوك تتعرف ع الحشرة‬،‫الحشرات‬
Adult: maxillary palps at same the level of proboscis.
Male: clubbed palps with hairy antenna.
Female: slender palps with less hairy antenna.
Egg: with alveolar floats.
Larva: without respiratory siphon.
Medical importance: Vector for Plasmodium spp,
W.bancrofti and Brugia malayi.

3
Culex mosquito.

How to recognise:
Adult: maxillary palaps are not at the same level of
proboscis.
Female: maxillary palps are shorter than proboscis.
Egg: aggregate in raft like shape.
Larva: with respiratory siphon.
Medical importance: Vector for W.bancrofti and
B.malayi.

4
Glossina (Tse
tse fly).

How to recognise:
Adult: hatchet like cell.
Medical importance: Vector of African
Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).

5
Musca
domestica
(house fly).

How to recognise:
Adult: large eyes with short mouth parts.
Medical importance: Mechanical vector, accidental
myiasis.

6
Plebotomus
(sand fly).

How to recognise:
Adult: hairy body.
Medical importance: Vector of Leishmania, sand fly
fever.

7
Chrysops (deer
fly).

How to recognise:
Adult: Black band in their wings.
Medical importance: Vector of La loa.

8
Cochliomyia
hominivorax
(screw worm).

How to recognise: Larva: rows of hooklets, mouth

with two hooks.
Medical importance: Causes myiasis.

9
Cimex lectularis
(bed bugs).

How to recognise: .‫زي الصرصور الصغير‬

Medical importance: skin rash, may transmit HBV.

10
Ctinocephalus
canis (dog flea).

How to recognise: Adult: Combed head.

Medical importance: Vector of Dipylidium caninum.

11
Xenopsylla
cheopis (rat
flea).

How to recognise: Adult: non-combed head.

Medical importance: transmit “pinch” plague
(caused by yersinia pestis), endemic typhus,
Hymenolypis nana and diminuta.

12
Tunga penetrans
(chigoe flea).

How to recognise: Adult: Compressed body, lie

under nails.
Medical importance: Tungiasis.

13
Pediculus
humanus
corporis (body
louse),
Pediculus
humanus capitis
(head louse).

How to recognise: Adult: elongated body with

three pairs of legs, the same morphology for both.
Egg: Operculated and attached to hair shaft.
Medical importance:
Body louse: No medical importance, only pediculosis.
Head louse: pediculosis, vector for epidemic
relapsing fever.

14
Ixodes (hard
tick).
How to recognise: Adult female: with scutum on
dorsal aspect.
Medical importance: Q-fever, Lyme disease, tick
paralysis.

15
Ornithodoros
(soft tick).

How to recognise: Adult: No scutum with wrinkled

body.
Medical importance: Q-fever, spotted fever.

16
Loxoscele
(brown spider).

How to recognise: Adult: violin pattern.

Medical importance: Necrotic cutaneous lesion.

17
Latrodectus
(Black widow).

How to recognise: Red hour glass pattern on the

abdomen.
Medical importance: Neurotoxic, anaphylactic
shock.

18
Sarcoptes
scabiei (itch
mite).

How to recognise: ‫سمينة لين إيديها خاشين ف جسمها‬

Medical importance: scabies, Norwegian scabies.

19
Scorpion.

Medical importance: Severe pain at the site of

bite, anaphylactic shock.

20