Uranotaenia lateralis
Uranotaenia lateralis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Superfamily: | Culicoidea |
Family: | Culicidae |
Subfamily: | Culicinae |
Genus: | Uranotaenia |
Species: | Uranotaenia lateralis Ludlow, 1905 |
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Uranotaenia (Uranotaenia) lateralis is a species of zoophilic mosquito belonging to the genus Uranotaenia. It is found in Thailand, Sri Lanka,[1] Japan, Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor, and Vietnam.[2] They are known to live in crab holes.[3] It prefer to live around banks of water pools and known to feed on mudskippers.[4]
References
- ↑ "An annotated checklist of mosquitoes of Sri Lanka" (PDF). Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
- ↑ "lateralis Ludlow". Systematic Catalog of Culicidae. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
- ↑ "Mosquito Ecology". Mosquito Ecology: Field Sampling Methods. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
- ↑ "Culex pipiens". Culex Pipiens Pipiens Mosquitoes: Taxonomy, Distribution, Ecology. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
External links
- Studies on the mosquitoes in the Yaeyama Islands, Japan. 4. Uranotaenia lateralis Ludlow 1905, new to Japan [1979]
- Blood meal identification and feeding habits of uranotaenia species collected in the ryukyu archipelago.
- Mosquitoes and their potential predators in rice agroecosystems of the Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam.
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