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The Mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Seychelles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

P. F. Mattingly  and
E. S. Brown
P. F. Mattingly
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History)
E. S. Brown
Affiliation:
Commonwealth Institute of Entomology.
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A list is given of all the species of mosquitos so far recorded from the Seychelles, with their distribution in so far as this is known. A number of new records are included based on collections made recently by one of us (E.S.B.).

One species and one subspecies new to science are here described for the first time. The first full descriptions of the male terminalia and pupae of certain other species are included.

Some notes are given regarding the taxonomy, bionomics and local distribution of the species concerned and the zoogeography of the groups to which they belong.

Appendices are devoted to corrections to the second edition of “The Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Eegion”, Vol. I by G. H. E. Hopkins, and to the mosquitos of other islands in the western Indian Ocean.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , April 1955 , pp. 69 - 110
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