Pest Group Class Order Common Family 

Name

Common Name Species

Acari Mites Chiggers Trombicula spp. 

American Dust Mite Dermatophagoides farinae

European Dust Mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus

Scabies/Sarcoptic Mange Mite Sarcoptes scabiei

Other Ectoparasitic Mites Linognathidae spp.

Haematopinidae spp.

American Dog Tick Dermacentor variabilis

Brown Dog Tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Lone Star Tick Amblyoma americana

Rocky Mountain Wood Tick Dermacentor andersoni

Western Black Legged Tick Ixodes dammini

Black legged (Deer) Tick Ixodes scapularis

Soft Tick Omithodoros hermsi

Gulf Coast Tick Amblyoma maculatum

Prostigmata Hair Mites Demodex spp.

Related spp. Centruroides spp.

Sculpture Scorpion Centruroides sculpturatus

CHILAPODA Scolopendromorpha Centipedes Centipedes Chelicerata spp. 

German Cockroach Blattella germanica

American Cockroach Periplanetta americana

Oriental Cockroach Blatta orientalis

Australian Cockroach Periplanetta australasiae

Brownbanded Cockroach Supella longipalpa

Sheep Keds Elophagus ovinus

Nose Bots Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis

Horse Bots Gasterophilus intestinalis

Throat Bots Gasterophilus nasalis

Filth Flies Screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax

Filth Flies Secondary Screwworm Cochliomyia macellaria

Face Flies Face Fly Musca autumnalis

House flies House Flies Musca domesticus

House flies Little House Fly Fannia canicularis

Blow Flies Blow Fly Calliphoridae spp.

Flesh Flies Flesh Flies Sarcophagidae spp.

Cluster Flies Cluster Flies Pollenia rudis

Culicidae Culicidae

Culex Culex spp.

Culicseta Culiseta spp.

Aedes Aedes spp.

Ochlerotatus Ochlerotatus spp.

Anopheles Anopheles spp.

Psorophora Psorophora spp.

Coquillettidia Coquillettidia spp.

Tabanidae Tabanidae

Deer Flies Chrysops spp.

Sand Flies Psychodidae

Lutzomyia spp.

Phlebotomus spp.

Stable Fly Stomoxys calcitrans

Horse Flies Tabanus spp.

Horn Flies Haematobia irritans

Biting Midges Sand Flies Lutzomyia spp.

Culicoides spp.

Ceratopogonidae

Black Flies Black Flies Simulium & Prosimulium spp.

Bedbug Cimex lectularius

Masked Hunter Reduvius personatus

Kissing Bugs, Conenosed Bugs Triatoma spp.

Ants Pharoah Ant Monomorium pharaonsis

Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex spp.

Fire Ant Solenopsis spp.

Bees Apoidea spp. 

Cuckoo, Bumble and Honey Bees Apidae spp.

Africanized (Killer) Bee Apis mellifera

Bumble bees Bombus spp.

Mining Bees Andrenidae spp.

Plasterer, Masked, & Yellow-faced Bees Colletidae spp.

The 810 Series guidelines do not provide guidance for conducting every study that may be required to support label claims 

relating to pests of public health concern and structural pests. This list of pests for which efficacy claims are being made and 

for which data are required is below.

Dust Mites

INSECTA

Public Health 

Importance

Hymenoptera

Scorpionida

Ixodida

Astigmata

Acariformes

Appendix F: Supplement for PDCI Special Study for Arthropods: Pests of Public Health Importance and Structural 

Pests

ARACHNIDA

Hemiptera

Diptera

Blattaria

Bot Flies

Mosquitoes

Biting Flies

No-see-ums Punkies, Biting Midges, Granny Nippers

True Bugs

Scabies Mites

Ticks

Scorpions

Cockroaches

Bees
Pest Group Class Order Common Family 

Name

Common Name Species

The 810 Series guidelines do not provide guidance for conducting every study that may be required to support label claims 

relating to pests of public health concern and structural pests. This list of pests for which efficacy claims are being made and 

for which data are required is below.

Appendix F: Supplement for PDCI Special Study for Arthropods: Pests of Public Health Importance and Structural 

Pests

Sweat Bees Halictidae spp.

Leaf-cutter & Mason Bees Megachilidae spp.

"Wasps" Apoidea spp. 

Digger Wasps & Mud Daubers Sphecidae spp.

Cicada Killers Crabronidae spp.

Wasps Vespoidea spp.

Hornets & Yellow Jackets Vespinae spp.

Yellow Jackets Vespula spp.

Hornets & Yellow Jackets Dolichovespula spp.

Hornets Vespa spp.

Paper Wasps Polistinae spp.

Public Health INSECTA Wasps Potter wasps Eumeninae spp.

Spider & Tarantula wasps Pompilidae spp.

Velvet ants Mutilidae spp.

Head Louse Pediculus humanus capitis

Body Louse Pediculus humanus humanus

Crab Louse Pthirus pubis

Menoponidae spp.

Boopidae spp.

Gyropidae spp.

Other Ectoparsitic Lice Trichodectidae spp.

Philopteridae spp.

Cat Flea Ctenocephalides felis

Sticktight Flea Echidnophaga gallinacean

Human Flea Pulex irritans

Chigoe Flea Tunga penetrans

Oriental Rat Flea Xenopsylla cheopsis

Dog Flea Ctenocephalides canis

Emerald Ashborer Agrilus planipennis

Asian Longhorn Beetle Anoplophora glabripennis

Ants Imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta

Wasps Sirex woodwasp Sirex noctilio 

Old Wharf Borer Narcerdes melanura

Anobiid Beetles Anobiidae spp.

Bostrichid Beetles Bostrichidae spp

Hymenoptera Ants Carpenter Ants Camponotus spp.

Subterranean Termite Reticulitermes spp.

Desert Subterranean Termite Heterotermes spp.

Formosan Termite Coptotermes fomosanus

Kalotermes spp. 

Incisitermes spp.

Marginitermes spp.

Cryptotermes spp.

Wood Destroying INSECTA Isoptera Termites Dampwood Termite Zootermopsis spp.

Siphonaptera

Hymenoptera

Phthiraptera (Anoplura)

Phthiratera (Amblycera)

Phthiratera (Ischnocera)

Fleas

Lice

(continued)

Hymenoptera

Coleoptera

Wasps

Isoptera

Structural/ Wood 

Destroying

INSECTA

Quarantine Pests 

[7CFR§301]

INSECTA

Termites

Beetles

Drywood Termites

Coleoptera

Beetles

Other Ectoparsitic Lice

"Wasps"