Boakye D A
World Health Organisation, Onchocerciasis Control Programme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Trop Med Parasitol. 1993 Sep;44(3):223-44.
Simulium damnosum Theobald is made up of a complex of sibling species. Nine species are described in the area covered by the World Health Organisation's Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP). These are, S. squamosum, S. yahense, S. canctipauli, S. soubrense, S. leonense, S. konkourense, S. damnosum s.s., S. sirbanum and S. dieguerense. All of them are vectors of human onchocerciasis, albeit to different capacities. Reliable species determination presently depends on larval cytotaxonomic criteria. The diagnostic chromosomal inversions and other micromorphological characters used in the identification of the species found in the OCP area are presented with figures for their recognition, some distributional information is also given.
致倦库蚊由一系列亲缘种组成。在世界卫生组织西非盘尾丝虫病控制规划（OCP）覆盖的地区，已描述了9个物种。它们是鳞状库蚊、雅氏库蚊、坎氏库蚊、苏布库蚊、利昂库蚊、孔库雷库蚊、致倦库蚊指名亚种、西尔班库蚊和迪盖雷库蚊。它们都是人类盘尾丝虫病的传播媒介，尽管传播能力不同。目前可靠的物种鉴定依赖于幼虫细胞分类标准。文中给出了用于鉴定OCP地区发现的物种的诊断性染色体倒位和其他微观形态特征，并配有识别图，还提供了一些分布信息。
