Review of genus Coquilletidia (Diptera: Culicidae) in Madagascar and description of the larva of Cq. grandidieri (Blanchard, 1905)
Le Goff, G.; Rajaonarivelo, E.; Duchemin, J.B.; Robert, V.
Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Madagascar 68(1-2): 100-103
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0020-2495 PMID: 12643102 Document Number: 548244
The genus Coquilletidia includes some of the mosquitoes involved in the transmission of numerous arbovirosis. Adults are locally abundant and very aggressive for men. In Madagascar, thus genus concerns 3 species among which 2 are endemic and had not been described at larval stage this far. The authors describe a single larva of Coquilletidia collected at Ankazobe in the Middle West of Madagascar, at an altitude of 1200 meters. The geographical distribution of Coquilletidia adults collected in various bio-climatic zones in Madagascar, combined with observed morphological characters, permit us to attribute this larva to Cq. grandidieri.