Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Culicoidea Subfamily Anophelinae Genus Marsh Mosquitoes Order Fly | Class Insecta Family Culicidae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Subgenus | |
Similar Marsh Mosquitoes, Fly, Anophelinae, Anopheles darlingi, Wyeomyia | ||
The subgenus Kerteszia are Neotropical anopheline mosquitoes originally described in 1905 by Frederick V. Theobald as genus Kertészia with Kertészia boliviensis as the type species.
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Bionomics
Subgenus Kerteszia immatures develop primarily in the water in bromeliads, and less often in bamboo. They are distributed southward from the State of Veracruz in Mexico through Central America and Atlantic South America, along the coast to Misiones Province in Argentina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and on the Pacific coast of South America to El Oro Province, Ecuador. The subgenus is absent from the West Indies islands except Trinidad and from most of the Amazon basin in South America.
Medical Importance
Several species of this subgenus are important primary vectors of human malarias, and other species are suspected vectors.
Species
Species listed by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit: