Simulium ( Gomphostilbia ) asakoae Takaoka & Davies, 1995

Takaoka, Hiroyuki, Ya’Cob, Zubaidah & Sofian-Azirun, Mohd, 2018, Classification, annotated list and keys for the black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 4498 (1), pp. 1-65 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4498.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5980428
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scientific name	Simulium ( Gomphostilbia ) asakoae Takaoka & Davies, 1995
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2. Simulium ( Gomphostilbia) asakoae Takaoka & Davies, 1995 View in CoL

Simulium ( Gomphostilbia) asakoae Takaoka & Davies, 1995: 55 View in CoL –60 (Female, male, pupa and larva); Takaoka et al., 2017a: 15–23 (Female, male, pupa and larva).

This species is characterized in the male by the bright vermilion upper-eye large facets, and in the pupa by abdominal segments 1 and 2 each darkened and tuberculate on the dorsal surface.

The pupae and larvae of this species mainly breed in small streams at medium to high elevations ( 500–1,813 m) in Cameron Highlands (Ya’cob et al., 2016b).

It was recorded from Thailand (Takaoka and Saito, 1999), Hong Kong (Takaoka et al., 1995), Myanmar ( Takaoka et al., 2017c) and Vietnam ( Takaoka et al., 2014c).

This species was reported to be a vector of unknown filarial species in Thailand ( Fukuda et al., 2003; Ishii et al., 2008). However, a reconfirmation of the vector species is needed because there are several member species of the S. asakoae species-group, of which females are morphologically similar to one another ( Takaoka et al., 2013a).