Author
- (Skuse)
- 1894(1895):20 (F*; Culex)
- Calcutta, [West Bengal], India (USNM)
Distribution
- Issas and Afars, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bonin Islands, Chagos
Islands, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaiian Islands, India, Italy, Japan (Ryukyu
Is.), Korea, Madagascar, Mariana Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, New
Guinea, Nigeria, Reunion, Seychelles, United States
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Synonyms
- samarensis Ludlow
- 1903:138 (A; Stegomyia scutellaris ssp.)
- Type-loc: Samar, Philippines (USNM)
- nigritia
- quasinigritia
Bionomics
- Immatures are found in natural containers, including treeholes, bamboo
stumps, coconut shells, rockholes, palm fronds, and leaf axils. They
are also found in all varieties of artifical containers and will breed
indoors. Females readily bite man (Huang 1972).
Medical Importance
- Vector of dengue and yellow fever in the wild. Under laboratory conditions:
bird malarias, Eastern and Western equine encephalitis, West Nile, chikungunya
and Japanese encephalitis viruses (Huang 1972).
Additional References
- Barraud 1934:233 (M*, F*, L*).
- Edwards 1941:153 (A), 391 (P*).
- Bohart and Ingram 1946b:5,35,64
(M*, F*, L*)
- LaCasse and Yamaguti 1950:111 (M*,
F*, P*, L*)
- Knight and Hull 1952:176 (M*, F,
L).
- Mattingly 1953a:17 (tax.), 49 (distr.)
- Horsfall 1955: 506 (review).
- Hara 1957:65 (F*).
- Bullock 1960:167 (E*).
- Huang 1968c:297 (M*, F*, P*; neotype).
- Matsuo, Yoshida, and Kunou 1972:359
(E*).
- Huang 1972c:13 (M*, F*, P*, L*).
- Colless 1973:226 (n. distr.).
- Joshi, Pradhan and Darsie 1965:138
(distr.).
- Ree, Self, Hong and Lee 1973:383 (distr.) - pdf not yet available
- Matsuo, Yoshida and Lien 1974:180 (E*).
- Tanaka, Saugstad and Mizusawa
1975:223 (distr.).
- Della Pozza and Mojori 1992:318 (distr.,
Italy).
- Savage, Ezike, Nwankwo, Spiegel
and Miller 1992:101 (distr., Nigeria).
- Ibanez-Bernal and Martinez-Campos 1994:231 (distr., Mexico).
- Ogata and Samayoa 1996:503 (distr., Guatemala).
- Adhami and Reiter 1998:340 (distr.,
Albania)
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