Biography

Daniel Luis Vargas García, Mexican medical entomologist (Ciudad de Mexico 03 January 1908 – Ciudad de Mexico 1994)

Authored 262 works between them Simulidos del Nuevo Mundo (1945) with international repercussion

With G. Román y Carrillo & L. Vargas. New technics for studying the susceptibility of arthropods to persistent inseticides. I. Tests with four Mexican anopheline species raised in the laboratory, based on the definitive knock-down of the specimens. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. 19:19-65, 1959

Instrument for facilitating the calculation of larvicides applied to streams. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. 20:41-3, 1960

DESCRIBED TAXA

Diptera

Genera/Subgenera

Anilomyia 1960   

Beltranmyia 1953

Callotia 1972 with Kremer

Diphaomyia 1960

Downsiomyia 1950

Drymodesmyia 1960

Dyarella 1946 with Díaz Najera & Martinez Palacios

Eubonetia 1953 with Díaz Najera

Forattiniella 1978

Glaphiromyia 1960

Grenieriella 1951 with Díaz Najera 

Hearlea 1946 with Díaz Najera & Martínez Palacios

Kummyia 1950

Lanea 1946 with Martinez Palacios & Díaz Najera

Mallochianella 1948 with Díaz Najera

Mataemyia 1960

Missirolimyia 1950

Neosimulium 1946 with Díaz Najera & Martinez Palacios

Russellia 1943

Wirthomyia 1973

Species

About 100

Hemiptera

Genus

Parahesperoctenes 1947 with Hoffman

Siphonaptera

Species

Jellisonia ortizi 1951

Kohlsia fournieri 1951

Orchopeas reevesi 1960

Polygenes martinez-baezi 1951

Polygenes rozeboomi 1952

Polygenes vazquezi 1951

Acari

Amblyomma castanedai 1952 with A. Hoffmann