| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1990 |
| Authors: | H. Hayakawa, Tanaka, K., Iwane, K., Yamashita, N. |
| Journal: | Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Pagination: | 285-289 |
| Date Published: | 1990 |
| Keywords: | Asia, Hirosia humilis, Hirosia iyoensis, Hirosia sapporoensis, Japan, Odours, Tabanidae, Tabanus chrysurus, Tabanus nipponicus, Techniques, Trapping |
| Abstract: | A new type of tabanid fly trap which is basically a mosquito-net shape with special collection containers installed inside was constructed, and used with a CO2-emission apparatus which was run automatically according to temperature, illumination and/or rainfall. When compared with a CO2-baited mosquito-net trap during field tests in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, the new trap collected 1.8 times more tabanid flies (of which Hirosia humilis, Tabanus nipponicus, T. chrysurus, H. iyoensis and H. sapporoensis were dominant). |
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