psychodid

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Noun1.psychodid - a fly of the family Psychodidae
gnat - any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
family Psychodidae, Psychodidae - very small two-winged flies with hairy wings that develop in moss and damp vegetable matter: sand flies
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An understanding of evolutionary relationships among different subfamilies and species of the psychodid flies, especially in the moth flies, are of epidemiological importance, because the phylogenetic relationship helps to predict the mechanical transmission of bacterial pathogens such as Acinetobacter baumannii, Aeromonas hydrophila, Alcaligenes faecalis, Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae ssp.
A review of the bloodsucking psychodid flies of Colombia (Diptera: Phlebotominae and Sycoracinae).
Fish (1976) reported that aquatic larvae of a psychodid were abundant in epiphytic bromeliads in some localities in southern Florida.
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