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Coquillettidia

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Kingdom
  
Scientific name
  
Coquillettidia

Higher classification
  
Mosquito

Order
  
Fly

Family
  
Culicidae

Phylum
  
Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Mosquito, Culiseta, Uranotaenia, Mansonia, Fly

Coquillettidia is a mosquito genus erected by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. in 1904 based primarily on unique features of its "peculiar" male genitalia. The specific epithet honors Dyar's colleague Daniel William Coquillett.

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Coquillettidia Mosquito Photographs Coquillettidia Mansonia

The genus comprises three subgenera, Austromansonia, Coquillettidia, and Rhynochotaenia, and 57 species, of which Coquillettidia perturbans is perhaps the best known.

Coquillettidia Mosquito Photographs Coquillettidia Mansonia

Bionomics

Not all species have been well documented, but females of some are known to feed primarily on birds but will also bite cattle. The females bite primarily at night, and are most active during the early part of the night. They occasionally attack humans during daylight hours in shady places when their habitat is entered.

Coquillettidia Coquillettidia perturbans BugGuideNet

Adult females lay their eggs on the surface of water in areas of emergent vegetation to which hatchling larvae attach themselves with a modified siphon, on the roots or submerged stems, and where they remain throughout development; pupae also attach themselves the plants by means of a modified respiratory trumpet, and remain there until the adult is ready to emerge.

Coquillettidia Coquillettidia perturbans

Species in the subgenus Coquillettidia are primarily Afrotropical, but some are found in the Oriental and Australasian Regions, one occurs in North America and two occur in the Palearctic region. Austromansonia occurs only in New Zealand, while species of subgenus Rhynchotaenia are confined to the Neotropical Region.

Medical importance

Coquillettidia BOLD Systems Taxonomy Browser Coquillettidia genus

Coquillettidia perturbans is considered a vector of eastern equine encephalitis; other species are secondary or suspected vectors of Brugia malayi the cause of lymphatic filariasis, and Rift Valley fever.

References

Coquillettidia Wikipedia


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