Investigation into the Natural Breeding Places of the Siphunculina Funicola Fly, in Assam

Siphunculina Funicola

Sir,?In the Indian Medical Gazette of (i) January 1938, page 17, (?) April 1938, page 254, (Hi) August 1938, page 468, you published articles and letters on the subject of the breeding places of Siphunculina junicola. Since 24th March, 1937, I have been carrying out an investigation to try and find out the natural breeding places of the Siphunculina junicola fly in this area. I can now report d...

Siphunculina Funicola (Eye-Fly)

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?In your January 1938 number, Mr. MSyddiq has published a short resume of the life his ^ of the eye-fly, S. funicola. It is however necessary mention that Jepson and Pinto (1927), in the Government Agricultural Service, have studied the life history, and bred the flies artiftci ^ on a variety of dead organic matter: they lived ^ much as six weeks in...

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The eye fly Siphunculina funicola (Diptera: Chloropidae) as a carrier of pathogenic bacteria in Thailand.

The oriental eye fly Siphunculina funicola (1.0-1.6 mm) is extremely annoying to humans and domestic animals, feeding on mucous membranes, secretions, wounds, eyes, and other moist surfaces of the host body. In many rural areas of Thailand heavy populations of this fly prevail where they aggregate on a variety of hanging substrates, such as strings, nest trailings, electrical lines, decorations...

Siphunculina Funicola (Eye-Fly) *This article is in the nature of a preliminary note only. Work on the eye-flies' systematic position in the insect world, the existence of other species in the same genus in India, characters distinguishing it from them, details of anatomy and morphology in the different stages and the life history, is in progress and will be published in due course.