sandflyn.
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a. A small blood-sucking fly belonging to the family Simuliidæ or Psychodidæ or a biting midge of the family Ceratopogonidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Simuliidae > member of (sand-fly)
sandfly1748
simuliid1895
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Psychodidae > member of
moth fly1552
sandfly1748
moth-gnat1855
owl midge1938
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Ceratopogonidae > member of
sandfly1748
no-see-um1837
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. v. 46 The muscatos..were succeeded by an infinity of sand-flies.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. iv. 111 The burning fly of America and the sand-fly of the West Indies.
1867 A. L. Adams Wanderings Naturalist India 59 That prince of gallynippers, the sand-fly, whose bite produces a painful and irritable swelling.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 276 The Sand-fly (Simulia), a small fly-like Midge, the females of which..are blood suckers.
1907 P. Fountain Rambles Austral. Naturalist xi. 121 The sand flies..irritated us greatly.
1932 W. A. Riley & O. A. Johannsen Med. Entomol. xiv. 195 The Psychodidae, popularly known as moth flies, owl flies, sand flies, or papataci, are minute dark-coloured insects whose body and wings are densely covered with hairs.
1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxii. 214 Barbara was fortunate that it was beautiful weather;..no hellish mosquitoes or burning sandflies to torture her naked hide.
1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xxi. 141 Members of the family Simuliidæ are widely known as ‘buffalo-flies’ and ‘black flies’, but in some parts of the world, as in Australia, they are..designated by other names such as ‘sandflies’ or ‘midges’.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xxii. 595 The biting midges..include some very annoying pests, variously called no-see-ums, punkies, sand flies, moose flies, and gnats.
b. An artificial fly used in angling.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1700 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum (ed. 3) 229 Sand Fly... Made of the Wooll gotten off the Flank of a black Sheep.
1892 G. R. Lowndes Camping Sketches 202 The dace were rising furiously, and we got to work at once with a sandfly and a blue dun.
2. sandfly bush: see quot. 1889.
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1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 282 Zieria Smithii, Andr... Colonial names are ‘Sandfly Bush’ and ‘Turmeric’.
3. sandfly fever n. an acute viral fever transmitted by flies of the genus Phlebotomus.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers
fever hectica1398
emitrichie1398
hectic1398
etisie1527
emphysode fever1547
frenzy-fever1613
purple fever1623
prunella1656
marcid fever1666
remittent1693
feveret1712
rheumatic fever1726
milk fever1739
stationary fever1742
febricula1746
milky fever1747
camp-disease1753
camp-fever1753
sun fever1765
recurrent fever1768
rose fever1782
tooth-fever1788
sensitive fever1794
forest-fever1799
white leg1801
hill-fever1804
Walcheren fever1810
Mediterranean fever1816
malignant1825
relapsing fever1828
rose cold1831
date fever1836
rose catarrh1845
Walcheren ague1847
mountain fever1849
mill fever1850
Malta fever1863
bilge-fever1867
Oroya fever1873
hyperpyrexia1875
famine-fever1876
East Coast fever1881
spirillum fevera1883
kala azar1883
black water1884
febricule1887
urine fever1888
undulant fever1896
rabbit fever1898
rat bite fever1910
Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911
sandfly fever1911
tularaemia1921
sodoku1926
brucellosis1930
Rift Valley fever1931
Zika1952
Lassa fever1970
Marburg1983
1911 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 6) 629/2 Phlebotomus papatasii [printed papatassii]..is thought to convey by its bite an infection known as sandfly fever.
1921 Manson's Trop. Dis. (ed. 7) 230 Phlebotomus Fever... Three-day Fever; Sandfly Fever; ‘Dog Disease’.
1927 Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 4/6 Thomas had three attacks of malaria before the war, and later sand-fly fever and pneumonia.
1936 Indian Jrnl. Med. Res. 23 870 The lesion in dengue fever..differs to some extent from that in sandfly fever.
1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. v. 26 There remain certain virus infections, such as sandfly fever and dengue, which cause disease in man, but for which no animal reservoir has, as yet, been demonstrated.
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