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Name-bearing Type

• Ludlow
• 1905a:130
• Type Species: Heizmannia scintillans

Classification

• Subfamily Culicinae, tribe Aedini. Heizmannia includes 40 species. Thirty-four species belong to subgenus Heizmannia and six are included in subgenus Mattinglyia.

Distribution

• Heizmannia species occur in the Oriental Region.
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Phylogeny

• [Not yet available]

Characteristics

• Heizmannia are similar to Haemagogus in the New World. Adults are brightly coloured mosquitoes reminiscent of some sabethines. Many species have broad iridescent scales on the scutum, and species of subgenus Heizmannia have a small patch of setae on the mesopostnotum. The genus shares many of the characteristics found in species of other aedine genera in the Oriental Region, but is separable from these by the presence of one or more or various combinations of the following characters: erect scales restricted to back of head, occasionally absent; acrostichal setae and dorsocentral setae absent; prespiracular setae absent; postspiracular setae usually absent; upper mesokatepisternal setae absent; lower mesepimeral setae present; subspiracular area, postspiracular area, paratergite and laterotergite all with scales; upper calypter of wing with a fringe of setae, alula with broad flat scales on dorsal margin, anal vein (vein 1A) ending beyond base of mediocubital crossvein; tarsi normal, pulvilli not evident. The essential features distinguishing Heizmannia larvae from other genera include the following: hypostomal suture complete to posterior tentorial pit, maxilla with typical maxillary brush (subgenus Heizmannia) or a maxillalry bundle of coalesced filaments (subgenus Mattinglyia), seta 12-I absent, comb and pecten present, single pair of seta 1-S inserted well above base of siphon, saddle incomplete, ventral brush (seta 4-X) usually with four pairs of setae. Some larvae of other aedine genera closely resemble Heizmannia but usually differ in having setae 4,7-C small with few branches. If these setae are large with many branches as in Heizmannia, then seta 6-C is posterior to seta 4-C and/or it does not have two unequal branches. See Aedini.

Bionomics

• Heizmannia larvae occur mainly in tree-holes and bamboo, but some species are occasionally found in small ground pools and one species has been collected from split coconuts and artificial containers. Little is known about the bionomics of the adults. They are apparently active during the daytime in forests where females readily attack humans.

Medical

• Heizmannia females bite humans, but none of the species are known to vector disease agents.

Important References

Barraud, 1934 (southern Asia) Thurman, 1959 (Thailand) Delfinado, 1966 (Philippines) Mattingly, 1970 (revision)

Reinert, 1973c (taxonomy) Tanaka et al., 1979 (Japan) Lee et al., 1988b (Australasian Region) Reinert et al., 2004, 2009 (classification, phylogeny)

Included Taxa

Subgenus HEIZMANNIA Ludlow, 1905 aurea Brug, 1932 aureochaeta (Leicester, 1908) carteri Amerasinghe, 1993 chandi Edwards, 1922 chengi Lien, 1968 communis (Leicester, 1908) complex (Theobald, 1910) covelli Barraud, 1929 demeilloni Mattingly, 1970 funerea (Leicester, 1908) funerearoides Dong, Zhou & Gong, 2004 greenii (Theobald, 1905) heterospina Gong & Lu, 1986 himalayensis Edwards, 1922 indica (Theobald, 1905) kana Tanaka, Mizusawa & Saugstad, 1970 kanhsienensis Tung, 1955 lii Wu, 1936 macdonaldi Mattingly, 1957 mattinglyi Thurman, 1959 maximalepido Dong, Zhou & Gong, 2004 menglianensis Lu & Gong, 1986

Subgenus HEIZMANNIA cont., menglianeroides Dong, Dong & Zhou, 2003 persimilis Mattingly, 1970 propinqua Mattingly, 1970 proxima Mattingly, 1970 reidi mattingly, 1957 ruiliensis Dong, Zhou & Wang, 1997 scanloni Mattingly, 1970 scintillans Ludlow, 1905 taiwanensis Lien, 1968 tengchongensis Dong, Wang & Zhou, 2002 thelmae Mattingly, 1970 viridis Barraud, 1929   Subgenus MATTINGLYIA Lien, 1968 achaetae (Leicester, 1908) catesi (Lien, 1968) discrepans (Edwards, 1922) lui Gong & Li, 1999 occidentayunnana (Gong & Lu, 1991) tripunctata (Theobald, 1908)

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