On the Distribution of Blackfly Larvae in Different Rivers in Lithuania

s of Presentations RELATIONSHIPS OF THE NEARCTIC AND PALAEARCTIC SIMULIID FAUNAS PETER H. ADLER, DOUGLAS C. CURRIE, BJÖRN MALMQVIST, EUGENIE A. KACHVORYAN & DOREEN WERNER 1 ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF BLACKFLY LARVAE IN DIFFERENT RIVERS IN LITHUANIA RASA BERNOTINĖ 2 INITIAL PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE DIGITAL KEY TO THE LARVAE AND PUPAE OF SIMULIIDAE FROM CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPE MANFRED CAR & WOLFGANG LECHTHALER 3 ONCHOCERCIASIS TRANSMISSION BY THE BIOKO FORM OF SIMULIUM YAHENSE VAJIME & DUNBAR -ROBERT A.CHEKE, INAKI TIRADOS, JORDI MAS , PETRA GEENAN, ANACLETO SIMA & MICHAEL D.WILSON 4 ESTIMATING THE BITING RISK TO HUMANS BY THE BLACK FLY SPECIES THAT ARE MOST ABUNDANT IN THE REGION OF NOVI SAD (VOJVODINA PROVINCE, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) ALEKSANDRA IGNJATOVIC CUPINA, DUSAN PETRIC, MARIJA ZGOMBA, ALEKSANDRA KONJEVIC, SONJA GRABOVAC, DUSAN MARINKOVIC 4 DIURNAL BITING PERIODICITY OF AMAZONIAN SIMULIIDAE MARÍA-EUGENIA GRILLET, NESTOR J. VILLAMIZAR,JOSÉ CORTEZ, HORTENCIA FRONTADO & MARÍA-GLORIA BASÁÑEZ 5 CHANGES IN BLACKFLY COMMUNITIES CAUSED BY ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE JOZEF HALGOŠ, MATÚŠ KÚDELA 6 ON THE MORPHOLOGY OF SEVERAL BLACKFLY SPECIES OF THE AMAZONICUMSPECIES GROUP, SUBGENUS PSARONIOCOMPSA, IN LATIN AMERICA LUIS M. HERNÁNDEZ TRIANA, ANTONY J. SHELLEY, A.P.LUNA DIAS & M. MAIA-HERZOG 7 BLACK FLY STUDIES IN FINLAND: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE JARI ILMONEN 7 DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF THREE HIGH ALTITUDE SPECIES OF EUROPEAN BLACKFLIES LADISLAV JEDLIČKA 8 THE ANTHROPOPHILIC MEMBERS OF THE SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM THEOBALD COMPLEX IN ETHIOPIA, MALAWI AND TANZANIA ANDREAS KRÜGER, BERTHA T.A. MAEGGA, MABINTU MUSTAPHA & RORY J. POST 9 THE IDENTITY, TAXONOMY AND BIONOMICS OF SIMULIUM MAXIMUM (KNOZ) MATÚŠ KÚDELA 10 ISSR IN TAXONOMY AT THE SPECIES LEVEL MATÚŠ KÚDELA, ROMAN DUŠINSKÝ, VIERA STLOUKALOVÁ 11 BLACKFLIES IN NORTHERN SWEDEN: USING RIVER REGULATION AS A LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENT TO STUDY THEIR IMPORTANCE BJÖRN MALMQVIST & DARIUS STRASEVICIUS 11 SIMULIUM (EUSIMULIUM) PETRICOLUM RIVOSECCHI IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE RORY POST & MABINTU MUSTAPHA 12 ON THE HISTORY OF NORTH EUROPEAN BLACKFLIES (SIMULIIDAE) Jan Emil Raastad 12 THE FEASIBILITY OF ONCHOCERCIASIS ERADICATION? RESULTS FROM A 17-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF SIMULIUM BITING RATES AND ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS TRANSMISSION POTENTIALS IN A MECTIZAN-MASS-TREATED AREA IN NORTH CAMEROON INDICATE THE NEED FOR NEW MACROFILARICIDES Alfons Renz 13 THE VARIATION OF PUPAL GILLS IN PROSIMULIUM RUFIPES (MEIGEN) Viera Stloukalová 14 BLACKFLIES AND THEIR NATURAL PREDATORS: NEW RESULTS ON DIPTERA Doreen Werner & 2Adrian C. Pont 14 BLACKFLY LARVAE AND AGGREGATION Roger S. Wotton 15 THE DISCOVERY OF A FOSSIL BLACKFLY FEMALE (DIPTERA: SIMULIIDAE) IN BALTIC AMBER Aleksey Yankovsky 16 ABSTRACTS OF POSTERSS OF POSTERS REPEATED MATING IN SIMULIUM (WILHELMIA) LINEATUM (MEIGEN) (DIPTERA: SIMULIIDAE) Vilma Baužienė, 1Vincas Būda, & 2Rasa Bernotienė 17 SIMULIID VERNACULAR NAMES PROJECT – PRESENT STATE OF PROGRESS John B. Davies 18 ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND SPECIES COMPOSITION OF BLACK FLIES IN THE RIVER HRAZDAN, ARMENIA 1Eugenie A. Kachvoryan, 2Doreen Werner, 3Peter H. Adler, 1Maria V. Harutyunova & 1Karina V. Harutyunova 18 THE BIODIVERSITY OF BLACK FLIES IN ARMENIA 1Eugenie A. Kachvoryan, 2Peter H. Adler, 3Doreen Werner , 1Karina V. Harutyunova & 1Maria V. Harutyunova 20 NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF BLACKFLIES ON THE CANARY ISLAND OF LA GOMERA Joachim Reidelbach 21 PARASITIC MITES (ACARI: HYDRACHNIDIA) ON PUPAE AND ADULTS OF SIMULIIDAE (INSECTA: DIPTERA) 1Alfons Renz, 2Reinhard Gerecke & 3Peter Martin 21 PATTERNS OF BLACKFLY DISTRIBUTION IN RELATION TO HABITAT STRUCTURE, STREAM DEGRADATION AND LAND USE IN STREAMS IN THE RIVER RUHR CATCHMENT AREA (GERMANY) 1Melanie Lautenschläger & 2Ellen Kiel 22 CURRENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE KARYOTYPES OF THE WORLD BLACKFLY FAUNA (DIPTERA, SIMULIIDAE) Lidia Chubareva & Ninel Petrova 22 THE BIOTOPE OF SIMULIUM (RUBZOVIA) LAMACHI DOBY & DAVID (DIPTERA, SIMULIIDAE) IN THE NORTHERN LIMESTONE ALPS NEAR BERCHTESGADEN (GERMANY) Gunther Seitz 23 These abstracts have been extracted from the 23rd Number of the British Simuliid Group Bulletin and cover the historic combined meeting of the European Simuliidae Symposium and the British Simulium Group, held in Berlin in September 2004. That this meeting ever happened is entirely due to the persistence of Doreen Werner of Humboldt University. Thank you Doreen and the Cytogenetics Group for all your efforts and for a well organised meeting.