NEW SPECIES OF TOXORHYNCHITES (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE) FROM MACAO (CHINA)

Authors
RIBEIRO H
Citation
H. Ribeiro, NEW SPECIES OF TOXORHYNCHITES (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE) FROM MACAO (CHINA), Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 13(3), 1997, pp. 213-217
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association → ACNP
ISSN journal
8756971X
Volume
13
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
213 - 217
Database
ISI
SICI code
8756-971X(1997)13:3<213:NSOT(C>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The male holotype and female allotype of Toxorhynchites (Toxorhynchite s) macaensis Ribeiro, a new mosquito species from Macau, southern Chin a, are described on the basis of the examination of a type series of 6 males and 7 females. Similarities of the new species with the other s pecies of the Splendens group, to which the new taxon belongs, are dis cussed and keys to identification of males and females of all the spec ies of the group are provided.