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1. Introduction
2. Topic covered
3. Arthropods which are of medical significance
4. Important insect orders and families
5. Medically/veterinary important orders and families
6. Important neopterous Exopterygota orders
7. Order Blattaria - cockroaches
8. Cockroach characteristics
9. Cockroach biology
10. Medical importance of cockroaches
11. Common domiciliary species
12. Order Phthiraptera - lice
13. Order Phthiraptera "Mallophaga" chewing lice
14. Order Phthiraptera, sucking lice
15. Human head and body lice
16. Human pubic, crab louse - Phthirus pubis
17. Medical importance of sucking lice
18. Order Hemiptera - true bugs
19. Family reduviidae, subfamily triatominae
20. Triatomids as vectors
21. Family cimicidae, bed, bird and bat bugs
22. Important Paleopterous Endopterygote orders
23. Order Coleoptera - beetles
24. Order Coleoptera
25. Medical and veterinary importance of Coleoptera
26. Order Diptera - true flies
27. Suborder Nematocera
28. Nematoceran families of medical importance
29. Family Culicidae - mosquitoes
30. Life cycle and 3 major genera
31. Medical and veterinary importance of mosquitoes
32. Family Simuliidae - black flies
33. Family Psychodidae - subfamily Phlebotominae
34. Family Ceratopogonidae biting midges
35. Suborder Brachycera
36. Infraorders of Brachycera
37. Tabanomorpha (family Tabanidae and relatives)
38. Muscomorpha (family Muscidae and others)
39. Importance of Muscomorpha - biting flies
40. Importance of Muscomorpha - filth flies
41. Medical importance of Muscomorpha larvae
42. Order Siphonaptera - fleas
43. Biology of fleas
44. Medical and veterinary importance of fleas
45. Order Lepidoptera butterflies, moths, skippers
46. Lepidoptera characteristics
47. Medical and veterinary importance of Lepidoptera
48. Order Hymenoptera ants, bees and wasps
49. Hymenoptera
50. Medical and veterinary importance of Hymenoptera
51. Other venomous arthropods
52. Class Arachnida, subclass Acari - ticks and mites
53. Ixodidae - hard ticks
54. Relative size of ticks
55. Sexual dimorphism
56. Hard ticks - biology
57. Hard ticks - host location
58. Tick life cycle: generalized
59. Tick life cycle variations
60. Order Acari, family Argasidae - soft ticks
61. Soft tick biology
62. Medical and veterinary importance of ticks
63. Mites
64. Mite families of medical and veterinary importance
65. Example of mites as pathogen vectors
66. Concluding remarks
67. Recommended resources
68. Credits

Topics Covered

• Both mandibulate and chelicerate arthropods can impact human and animal health
• The most problematic mandibulates are insects, including cockroaches, lice, blood-feeding true bugs, fleas, true flies, ants, bees, and wasps
• Among the chelicerates, mites & ticks, spiders and scorpions are of importance
• Mites and ticks as vectors (transmitters) of pathogens and pests
• Spiders and scorpions as venomous biters and stingers

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Series:

• Vector-Borne Diseases

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Plant & Animal Sciences

Therapeutic Areas:

• Infectious Diseases

Talk Citation

Romoser, W.S. (2010, October 26). Overview of arthropods & their impact on the health of humans & other vertebrates 2 [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 14, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/DBXO2384.
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Publication History

• Published on October 26, 2010

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. William S. Romoser has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.