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Species of insect
Coquillettidia crassipes
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Coquillettidia crassipes
(Wulp, 1881)
Synonyms
Chrysoconops pygmaeus Theobald, 1908
Mansonia diaeretus Dyar, 1920
Taeniorhynchus brevicellulus Theobald, 1901
Mansonia crassipes
[1]
Coquillettidia (Coquillettidia) crassipes is a species complex of zoophilic
mosquito belonging to the genus
Coquillettidia .
Distribution
It has a wide range of distribution from west to east. It is found in
Sri Lanka ,
[2]
Australia ,
Bangladesh ,
Cambodia ,
China ,
Fiji ,
Guam ,
Hong Kong ,
India ,
Indonesia ,
Japan ,
Laos ,
Malaysia ,
Mariana Islands ,
Myanmar ,
Nepal ,
New Guinea (Island);
Papua New Guinea ,
Pakistan ,
Philippines ,
Thailand ,
Vietnam ,
Ryukyu ,
Irian Jaya , and
Maluku .
[3]
[4]
Description
Female with brownish
antenna , maxillary
palpus ,
clypeus , and
proboscis with violet sheen.
Scutum yellowish, with narrow golden
scales .
Wings with narrow dark scales of purple reflections.
Femora yellowish at base and purplish on apical parts. Male has maxillary palpus longer than proboscis.
[5]
Parasites
Niles et al 1965 finds C. crassipes to be a natural
vector of
Plasmodium gallinaceum .
[1] It also vectors various other
avian malaria organisms in
Africa .
[6]
Medical importance
It is a secondary
vector of
Brugian filariasis ,
[7] a host to
Cardofilaria nilesi .
[8]
References
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a
b Santiago-Alarcon, Diego; Palinauskas, Vaidas; Schaefer, Hinrich Martin (2012-05-23). "Diptera vectors of avian Haemosporidian parasites: untangling parasite life cycles and their taxonomy".
Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . 87 (4).
Cambridge Philosophical Society (
Wiley ): 928–964.
doi :
10.1111/j.1469-185x.2012.00234.x .
ISSN
1464-7931 .
PMID
22616880 .
S2CID
22950198 .
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"An annotated checklist of mosquitoes of Sri Lanka" (PDF) . Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2017 .
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"Species Details : Coquillettidia crassipes (Wulp, 1881)" . Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2 February 2017 .
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"Systematic Catalog of Culicidae - Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit - Coquillettidia crassipes " . Systematic Catalog of Culicidae. Retrieved 2 February 2017 .
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"ON COQUILLETTIDIA CRASSIPES , A NEW RECORD FOR MACAU, WITH A KEY TO ADULTS OF THE SUBGENERA AND SPECIES GROUPS OF THE GENUS" (PDF) . Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association . Retrieved 2 February 2017 .
^ Njabo, Kevin Y.; Cornel, Anthony J.; Sehgal, Ravinder NM; Loiseau, Claire; Buermann, Wolfgang; Harrigan, Ryan J.; Pollinger, John; Valkiūnas, Gediminas; Smith, Thomas B. (2009).
"Coquillettidia (Culicidae, Diptera) mosquitoes are natural vectors of avian malaria in Africa" . Malaria Journal . 8 : 193.
doi :
10.1186/1475-2875-8-193 .
PMC
3152766 .
PMID
19664282 .
^ Chiang, GL; Samarawickrema, WA; Mak, JW; Cheong, WH; Sulaiman, I; Yap, HH (1986). "Field and laboratory observations on Coquillettidia crassipes in relation to transmission of Brugia malayi in Peninsular Malaysia". Ann Trop Med Parasitol . 80 (1): 117–21.
doi :
10.1080/00034983.1986.11811989 .
PMID
2873797 .
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Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates: Their Development and Transmission . Google E-book. 2000-02-08.
ISBN
9780851997865 . Retrieved 2 February 2017 .
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