2001 Biting Flies and Their Symbionts
2001 Biting Flies and Their Symbionts
This is a survey of the biting flies (11 families) and their symbionts in the Park, using various trapping techniques, to describe new species, to furnish records to the central ATBI database, to develop a small guide to the Parkļ½s biting flies, and to deposit specimens in various museums, including the Park museum.
We identified 103 species of biting flies and 41 species of their symbionts from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. More than half of these species represent Park records. Five species of flies and five species of symbionts are new to science. The number of species of biting flies now known from the Park represents about 21% of exactly 500 species of flies that we have databased as coordinators of the Diptera TWIG. One of the first records of a pathogenic bacterium in black flies was documented and a publication is now in press. All records were entered into our Diptera database, and all records of endosymbionts and biting flies were also provided to Norm Johnson=s central ATBI database at the end of 2001. Identified specimens have been deposited in the Park=s museum and in various museums throughout the world. Many specimens from other groups of invertebrates that were collected during this project were submitted to other TWIGs. Work on the guide to biting flies continues.
Reeves, W. 2001. The hidden diversity inside biting flies. ATBI Quarterly 2 (4): 8.
Reeves, W. K. & D. Nayduch. 2002. Pathogenic Bacillus from a larva of the Simulium tuberosum species complex (Diptera: Simuliidae). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology (In press).
Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., B. Hanelt, W. Reeves. In preparation. Redescription and compilation of Nearctic freshwater Nematomorpha (Gordiida). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. In preparation.
Reeves, W. K. 2001. Great Smoky Mountains Ravens Ford Collection Site Final Report. Great Smoky Mountains National Park Technical Report. http//www.npslandexchange.com/docs/arthropods.pdf
Presentations
Reeves, W. K. & P. H. Adler. 2001. Biting flies and their symbionts. 5th Annual Meeting of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory. Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN.
Reeves, W. K. 2001. Diptera of the Great Smoky Mountains and the status of the Diptera taxonomic working group. 5th Joint Meeting of the Georgia Entomological Society and the South Carolina Entomological Society. Gainesville, GA.
Reeves, W. K. 2001. Symbionts of Biting Flies in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 72nd Rocky Mountain Conference of Entomologists. Woodland Park, CO.
Reeves, W. K. 2001. Arthropod Symbionts: the big picture. 33rd Annual Southern Arthropod Conference on Arthropod Biology. Cullowhee, NC.
Reeves, W. K. 2001. Diptera Taxonomic Working Group, Research Report. 5th Annual Great Smoky Mountains All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Annual Conference. Gatlinburg, TN.
Reeves, W. K. 2002. Simuliid symbiotes in the Smoky Mountains. Southern Extension and Research Activities Information Exchange Group. Lake Placid, FL.
Reeves, W. K. 2002. A new pathogenic Bacillus from a Simulium species. 7th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum. Clemson, SC.
