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Eggs of Tripteroides (Rachionotomyia) aranoides (Theobald) and Topomyia (Suaymyia) yanbarensis Miyagi

1986; American Mosquito Control Association; Linguagem: Inglês

0091-3669

T. Okazawa, Masahiro HORIO, Ichiro Miyagi, Motoyoshi Mogi, S Sucharit,

Malaria Research and Control

Eggs of Tripteroides axw-ioides and Topomyia yanbarensis are described with notes on their biology. Tripteroides aranoides eggs resemble those of Tp. bambusa in surface structure, but differ in size. Mattingly (1969, 1974) reviewed the mosquito eggs of the tribe Sabethini so far known. This revealed that our knowledge of the sabethine eggs is still poor. A greater knowledge of them may broaden our understanding of inter- and intratribal taxonomic relationships. In the present study we give the first description of the eggs of two autogenous mosquitoes, Tripteroides (Rachionotomyia) aranoides (Theobald) and Topomyia LS'uaymyial yanbarensis Miyagi. Also some observations on their biology were made, including oogenesis and floating posture. Morphology and biology of m. aranoides were compared with those of rrp. Uripteroides) bambusa (Yamada) which is best known species in this genus.