Cranston P S
Entomology Department, British Museum (Natural History), London.
Med Vet Entomol. 1988 Apr;2(2):117-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1988.tb00061.x.
Various genera of non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) possess haemoglobins in larvae and adults. For certain species, these haemoglobins have been implicated in human allergic disease in several countries. The present study confirms and extends observations that haemoglobin is present in many species of Chironomidae, establishes that it is retained from the larval to the adult stage and shows that haemoglobin persists both in live and in dead dry flies. Previous suggestions that Chironomidae should be seen as important environmental and occupational allergens are clearly substantiated.
各种属的非吸血蠓（双翅目：摇蚊科）在幼虫和成虫阶段都含有血红蛋白。对于某些物种，这些血红蛋白在多个国家与人类过敏性疾病有关。本研究证实并扩展了以下观察结果：血红蛋白存在于许多摇蚊科物种中，确定其从幼虫阶段保留到成虫阶段，并表明血红蛋白在活的和死的干燥蠓中都持续存在。先前关于摇蚊科应被视为重要的环境和职业过敏原的建议得到了明确证实。
