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A Remarkable Mosquito, Opifex fuscus, Hutton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

David Miller
David Miller
Affiliation:
New Zealand Government Entomologist.
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When carrying out an investigation into the mosquitos of New Zealand, * the writer found that a very common species bred in saline and semi-saline pools above high water mark along the rocky parts of the North Island coast line. For some time it was considered that this mosquito was unrecorded, but it appears that Hutton described it as a Tipulid under the name Opifex fuscus.† This was pointed out to me both by Mr. G. V. Hudson, of Wellington, who is in possession of Hutton’s Tipulid types and had seen the illustrations here reproduced, and later on by Mr. F. W. Edwards, of the British Museum, who published a short account of the insect from material recently sent to him by Mr. Hudson.‡

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , April 1922 , pp. 115 - 126
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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References

page 115 note * Miller, D., “Report on the Mosquito Investigation,” pt. 1, N. Z. Dept. of Health Bull., no. 3 (1920).Google Scholar

page 115 note † Hutton, F. W., Trans. N. Z. Inst., xxxiv, p. 188 (1902).Google Scholar

page 115 note ‡ Edwards, F. W., Bull. Ent. Res., xii, p. 73 (1921).Google Scholar

page 121 note * These appendages, in variable form, are present on the mandibles of other New Zealand mosquito larvae. They resemble to a great extent the appendages on the mandible of Campodea as figured by Packard in his Text-book of Entomology, p. 60, fig. 48; the movable claw resembling his prostheca, or lacinia, and the others his galea. In some other species there is a pair of elongate spines on the angle of the outer ridge agreeing with the observations of other authors.