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DOI	10.1111/aen.12466
	Overview of the horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of South Africa: assessment of major collections for spatiotemporal analysis
	Snyman, Luuwrens P.1,4; Neves, Luis 1; Lempereur, Laetitia 2; Bosman, Albe C.3
通讯作者	Snyman, Luuwrens P.
来源期刊	AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY
ISSN	2052-1758
EISSN	2052-174X
出版年	2020
卷号	59 期号:3 页码:549-560
英文摘要	Tabanidae, commonly known as horseflies, is a large, cosmopolitan family with approximately 4400 described species, of which about 400 occur in southern Africa. Both sexes feed on nectar or pollen and some species are important pollinators. Females usually require a bloodmeal to produce eggs, implicating them as vectors of disease-causing agents. Despite their importance, they have been largely neglected by science, especially in the Afrotropics. In this study, we aimed to elucidate some fundamental spatiotemporal aspects of horsefly biology in South Africa by centralising digitised data from the major natural history museums in the region. Approximately 6 000 records have been digitised and collated into a Specify database from an approximate 17 000 specimens housed in 10 museums in the region. The collections from the 10 institutions, including six collections in neighbouring countries are briefly discussed. Spatiotemporal analysis according to biomes (Albany thicket, desert, forests, fynbos, grassland, Indian Ocean belt, Kalahari savannah sub-biome, Central Bushveld sub-biome, Lowveld savannah sub-biome, Nama Karoo and Succulent karoo) revealed baseline information regarding their biology within the biomes. The majority of the records are from north eastern KwaZulu-Natal, followed by Kruger National Park and areas surrounding Cape Town, indicative of uneven sampling. The database is represented by a total of 195 species of which 83 species were recorded in only one biome, with grassland home to 28% of the biome endemic species. A species list to the region, supplemented by records from previous authors, totals to 203 species occurring in the region. Future studies should aim to digitise the remaining specimens in order to create species pages with brief descriptions, high-resolution photographs, distribution maps and spatiotemporal patterns available online.
英文关键词	biome digitisation disease vector insect pollination museum collection Specify
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	South Africa ; Belgium
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000535481100001
WOS关键词	PROBOSCID FLY POLLINATION ; FLIES ; CONSERVATION ; EVOLUTION ; ECOLOGY
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS研究方向	Entomology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/319184
作者单位	1.Univ Pretoria, Fac Vet Sci, Dept Vet Trop Dis, Vectors & Vector Borne Dis Res Programme, ZA-0110 Onderstepoort, South Africa; 2.Univ Liege, Ctr Fundamental & Appl Res Anim Hlth FARAH, Fac Vet Med, Lab Parasitol & Parasit Dis, B-4000 Liege, Belgium; 3.Iziko Museums Cape Town, Dept Collect & Digitisat Marine Biodivers Collect, ZA-8000 Cape Town, South Africa; 4.Durban Nat Sci Museum, ZA-4025 Durban, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Snyman, Luuwrens P.,Neves, Luis,Lempereur, Laetitia,et al. Overview of the horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of South Africa: assessment of major collections for spatiotemporal analysis[J],2020,59(3):549-560.
APA	Snyman, Luuwrens P.,Neves, Luis,Lempereur, Laetitia,&Bosman, Albe C..(2020).Overview of the horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of South Africa: assessment of major collections for spatiotemporal analysis.AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY,59(3),549-560.
MLA	Snyman, Luuwrens P.,et al."Overview of the horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of South Africa: assessment of major collections for spatiotemporal analysis".AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY 59.3(2020):549-560.