Zoo 317 : Medical Arthropodology

General morphology; dynamic relationship between the host and parasite of some insects of minor medical importance as cockroaches, beetles, true ants, wasps and moths, and of some insects of major medical importance as blood sucking species of order Hemiptera including Family Cimicidae (Bed Bugs), order Phthiraptera (Body lice), order Diptera including families of Ceratopogonidae (punkies, small biting flies), Simulidae (black flies), Psychodidae (sandfly), Culicidae (mosquitoes), Asilidae (robber flies), Tabanidae (horse flies), Sarcophagidae (flesh flies), Muscidae (House flies) and Glossinidae (tsetse fly); order Siphonaptera (fleas),  order Ixodida (ticks), suborder Opilioacariformes (parasitiform mites); arthropod toxins, allergic secretions and endemic pathogens in Saudi Arabia; personal protection and prevention of arthropod pests.