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The early stages of certain West African Mosquitos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

A. Ingram  and
J. W. S. Macfie
A. Ingram
Affiliation:
West African Medical Service.
J. W. S. Macfie
Affiliation:
West African Medical Service.
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Howard, Dyar and Knab in their monograph “ The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies,” in discussing the rearing of mosquitos, emphasise the importance of larvae in specific determination. They write (Vol. I, p. 181) “ Many species of Culex are of uncertain determination without the associated larvae, while some Aëdes have identical adults, yet dissimilar larvae. The characters of the larvae reside in the modifications of the chitinous appendages of the skin and the arrangement of the hairs. As these are fully retained by the cast skins, it is possible to preserve both the larva and the adult of the same identical specimen, thus assuring absolutely correct associations.”

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1917 , pp. 135 - 154
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

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* In specimens dehydrated and mounted in balsam the length, however, is not more than ten times the diameter of the base.

* The adults associated with two other larvae have also been identified as C. guiarti (Bull. Ent. Res., vii, p. 7, footnote). It is not possible to decide at present whether this is due to some error in association, or to the name C. guiarti including more than one species of mosquito.