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Abstract It is hardly necessary to emphaBi~ the importance of ~lood sucicing rnus”id and hippoboaoid tlies as a serious pest6 of comestlc anim8ls in Egy~t. StQrnoxy§ calcit~~nB, Hi’l:[!JIlat6bia britans , ~ !;;r.ll9sirostrh and Hippob~B ~ ars of partic~lar importance Dwing to the f~ct 4hat t::’lBY gev~rely bite domesti.c anilll<’lls and voraciously :feed 0:1 blood and 1cad to losses in 111ilk and me-at pz-cducei.on (?r~ebQrn ~~ ~1~~5, BruoH and D8ck~r,1~5a ~nd Campbell, 197&). (Cll..IIIpbell at. ~ 1977 CKmpbdl II aI, s; 1987). In a<3dition , tlleSQ f 1.ies intertere in many c~ses with the usual d~ily ~ork of the live stock on the fa~,that b~side its role as a vector of some pathogenic mic:r:oorganisms (Hyslop, 1966, Foil ~~ ~ 1~8], Boron~en, 1914 an~ Tarry et ~ 1978). DR”lpite the fact that blood g·.lcking flies in Egypt ~re ~bu~dant and o~ n~jo~ veterinary import~nce,~omparatively little attention has been paid to them. As welL d~ fc~ information on the distribution of the above mehtion~d blood SUcking fl~e~ Were given, howeVer the detailed accounts on the eoology and di~tribution of these fli~s in Qali~bia GcvernQr~te have not yet been accurately studlQd. Moreover, very re~ ~ark haa been done on the~e flies concerning their role as a vector of Some bacterial disea5c~ of Earn. animals. |