의학곤충의 살충제저항성에 관한 연구 제1편 국내산 집파리의 학명에 대하여

Abstract

Recently certain foreign scientists suggested that the common house- fly in the Far East region should be regarded as a subspecies, Musca domestica vicina Macquardt, instead of regarding it as Musca domestica Linne for certain morphological and physiological reasons. The writer felt the necessity to make clear the taxonomical position of the common house-fly in Korea before starting his study on the insecticide·resistance of the seoul starin of the Korean house-fly. A morphological difference between the house-fly in the Far East and the typical M. domestica L. is the ratio of width of frons to width of head in the male individuals. The writer obtained the measurement data of this ratio in the typical specimens of M. domestica L. from U. S.A. The Korean specimens were the progeny of the flies which have been reared for more than two years in the writer's laboratory. Therfore, these individuals are considered to be a pure strain having the same genetical structure so that it can be expected that they are quite homogenous in physiological as well as in morphological characters. In comparison of the morphological difference of these two specimens, the writer found that the ratio in the Korean specimens is smaller than that of the typical American specimen. As far as physiological difference is concerned it was found by many workers that M. domestica vicina is inherently more tolerable to DDT than M. domestica. From the result of writer's investigation on the morphological difference, the writer considers that adoption of the name Musca domestica uicina Macquardt as the scientific name of the common house-fly of korea is appropriate.