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Coquillettidia is a mosquito genus erected by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904 based primarily on unique features of its "peculiar" male genitalia. The specific epithet honors Dyar's colleague Daniel William Coquillett.
The genus comprises three subgenera, Austromansonia, Coquillettidia, and Rhynochotaenia, and 57 species, of which Coquillettidia perturbans is perhaps the best known.




Bionomics


Not all species have been well documented, but females of some are known to feed primarily on birds but will also bite cattle. The females bite primarily at night, and are most active during the early part of the night. They occasionally attack humans during daylight hours in shady places when their habitat is entered.
Adult females lay their eggs on the surface of water in areas of emergent vegetation to which hatchling larvae attach themselves with a modified siphon, on the roots or submerged stems, and where they remain throughout development; pupae also attach themselves the plants by means of a modified respiratory trumpet, and remain there until the adult is ready to emerge.
Species in the subgenus Coquillettidia are primarily Afrotropical, but some are found in the Asian and Australasian Regions, one occurs in North America and two occur in the Palearctic region. Austromansonia occurs only in New Zealand, while species of subgenus Rhynchotaenia are confined to the Neotropical Region.




Medical importance


Coquillettidia perturbans is considered a vector of eastern equine encephalitis; other species are secondary or suspected vectors of Brugia malayi the cause of lymphatic filariasis, and Rift Valley fever.
Coquillettidia venezuelensis transmits Oropouche virus, the cause of Oropouche fever.




Species






= Subgenus (Coquillettidia) Dyar, 1905

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Coquillettidia annettii Theobald, 1901
Coquillettidia aurata Dobrotworsky, 1962
Coquillettidia aurea Edwards, 1915
Coquillettidia aureosquammata Ludlow, 1909
Coquillettidia aurites Theobald, 1901
Coquillettidia buxtoni Edwards, 1923
Coquillettidia chrysosoma Edwards, 1915
Coquillettidia crassipes van der Wulp, 1881
Coquillettidia cristata Theobald, 1904
Coquillettidia fijiensis Belkin, 1962
Coquillettidia flavocincta Edwards, 1936
Coquillettidia fraseri Theobald, 1911
Coquillettidia fuscopennata Theobald, 1903
Coquillettidia fuscopteron Theobald, 1911
Coquillettidia giblini Taylor, 1914
Coquillettidia grandidieri Blanchard, 1905
Coquillettidia hodgkini Wharton, 1962
Coquillettidia iracunda Walker, 1848
Coquillettidia karandalaensis Wolfs, 1951
Coquillettidia linealis Skuse, 1889
Coquillettidia lutea Belkin, 1962
Coquillettidia maculipennis Theobald, 1911
Coquillettidia memorans Bonne-Wepster, 1930
Coquillettidia metallica Theobald, 1901
Coquillettidia microannulata Theobald, 1911
Coquillettidia nigritarsis Wolfs, 1958
Coquillettidia nigrithorax Theobald, 1910
Coquillettidia nigrochracea Bonne-Wepster, 1930
Coquillettidia nigrosignata Edwards, 1917
Coquillettidia novochracea Barraud, 1927
Coquillettidia ochracea Theobald, 1903
Coquillettidia perturbans Walker, 1856
Coquillettidia pseudoconopas Theobald, 1910
Coquillettidia richiardii Ficalbi, 1889
Coquillettidia rochei Doucet, 1951
Coquillettidia samoaensis Stone, 1966
Coquillettidia saotomensis Lien, Lin, Lin and Tseng, 2008
Coquillettidia schoutedeni Wolfs, 1948
Coquillettidia vanoyei Wolfs, 1948
Coquillettidia variegata Dobrotworsky, 1962
Coquillettidia versicolor Edwards, 1913
Coquillettidia voltaensis Danilov, 1982
Coquillettidia wahlbergi Edwards, 1936
Coquillettidia xanthogaster Edwards, 1924




= Subgenus (Austromansonia) Belkin, 1968

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Coquillettidia tenuipalpis (Edwards, 1924)




= Subgenus (Rhynchotaenia) Brèthes, 1910

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Coquillettidia albicosta Chagas in Peryassú, 1908
Coquillettidia albifera Prado, 1931
Coquillettidia arribalzagae Theobald, 1903
Coquillettidia chrysonotum Peryassú, 1922
Coquillettidia fasciolata Lynch Arribálzaga, 1891
Coquillettidia hermanoi Lane and Coutinho, 1940
Coquillettidia juxtamansonia Chagas, 1907
Coquillettidia lynchi Shannon, 1931
Coquillettidia neivai Lane and Coutinho, 1940
Coquillettidia nigricans Coquillett, 1904
Coquillettidia nitens Cerqueira, 1943
Coquillettidia shannoni Lane and Antunes, 1937

Coquillettidia venezuelensis Theobald, 1912




See also


Mosquito control




References






External links


Species in subgenus Austromansonia at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit
Species in subgenus Coquillettidia at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit
Species in subgenus Rhynchotaenia at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit

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