New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
Identification keys to larval and adult female mosquitoes (Diptera:
Culicidae) of New Zealand
Amy E. Snell
Ecology and Health Research Centre
Department of Public Health
Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of Otago
P.O. Box 7343
Wellington South, New Zealand
amy.snell@wnmeds.ac.nz
Abstract Keys are presented for the identification
of larval and adult female life stages of the 12 endemic and four
exotic mosquito species known for New Zealand (the keys are to species
not genera). The keys include the recent arrival, Ochlerotatus (Ochlerotatus)
camptorhynchus (Thomson), and a monotypic genus endemic to New
Zealand. A number of Aedine subgenera have been recently raised to
genus level (Reinert et al. 2004; Reinert & Harbach 2005) and old
and new nomenclature are both given. The keys combine previously
scattered information about the current New Zealand mosquito fauna and
will assist future biosecurity surveillance and further studies
involving mosquitoes as potential arbovirus vectors.
Keywords mosquitoes; Culicidae; taxonomy; adults;
larvae; New Zealand
Z04034; Received 14 September 2004; accepted 20 January 2005; Online
publication date 13 May 2005
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2005, Vol. 32: 99–110
0301–4223/05/3202–0099 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005
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