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ˈsand-fly
[f. sand n.2 + fly n.1]
1. a. A small blood-sucking fly belonging to the family Simuliidæ or Psychodidæ or a biting midge of the family Ceratopogonidæ.
1748Anson's Voy. i. v. 46 The muscatos..were succeeded by an infinity of sand-flies. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. iv. (1818) I. 111 The burning-fly (brulot) or sand-fly of America and the West Indies. 1867A. L. Adams Wand. Naturalist India 59 That prince of gallynippers, the sand-fly, whose bite produces a painful and irritable swelling. 1896tr. Boas' Text-bk. Zool. 276 The Sand-fly (Simulia), a small fly-like Midge, the females of which..are blood suckers. 1907Fountain & Ward Rambles Austral. Naturalist xi. 121 The sand flies..irritated us greatly. 1932[see owl fly s.v. owl n. 7 b]. 1947I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxii. 214 Barbara was fortunate that it was beautiful weather;..no hellish mosquitoes or burning sandflies to torture her naked hide. 1962Gordon & Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xxi. 141 Members of the family Simuliidæ are widely known as ‘buffalo-flies’ and ‘black flies’, but in some parts of the world, as in Australia, they are..designated by other names such as ‘sandflies’ or ‘midges’. 1972Swan & Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xxii. 595 The biting midges..include some very annoying pests, variously called no-see-ums, punkies, sand flies, moose flies, and gnats.
b. An artificial fly used in angling.
1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. (1700) 229 Sand Fly... Made of the Wooll gotten off the Flank of a black Sheep. 1892Lowndes Camping Sk. 202 The dace were rising furiously, and we got to work at once with a sandfly and a blue dun.
2. sand-fly bush: see quot.
1889J. H. Maiden Usef. Nat. Pl. Australia 282 Zieria Smithii, Andr... Colonial names are ‘Sandfly Bush’ and ‘Turmeric’.
3. sand-fly fever, an acute viral fever transmitted by flies of the genus Phlebotomus.
1911Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 6) 629/2 Phlebotomus papatasii [printed papatassii]..is thought to convey by its bite an infection known as sandfly fever. 1936Indian Jrnl. Med. Res. XXIII. 870 The lesion in dengue fever..differs to some extent from that in sandfly fever. 1962Gordon & Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. v. 26 There remain certain virus infections, such as sandfly fever and dengue, which cause disease in man, but for which no animal reservoir has, as yet, been demonstrated. |