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Journal of the AmericanMosquito Control Association,l9(1):13-14' 2003 Copyrighi O 2003 by the American Mosquito Control Association, Inc' OCCURRENCE OF C ULEX (LOP H O CERAO MY IA) QUADRI P ALP I S, CULEX GOPHOCERAOMYIA) MAMMILI FER' AND URANOTAENIA (PSEUDOFICALBIA) NOVOBSCURA IN ASSAM, INDIA D.R.BHATTACHARYYA,ANILPRAKASH,P.K.MoHAPATRAaNoJ.MAHANTA 001, Assam, India Regional Medical Research Centre, NE Region (ICMR), PO Box IO5, Dibrugarh-786 in India' Collections of Culex ABSTRACT. Culex (Lophoceraomyia) quadripalpis is recorded for the lst time from Assam rn (Lophoceraomyiay mammiliyer and (lranoto"ria (Pseudoficalbia) novobscura are new records northeastern India. KEY woRDs Culex, new mosquito record, noftheastern India, Uranotaenia as Cx' INTRODUCTION emerged male mosquitoes were identified quadiipalpis of the subgenvs Lophoceraomyia, by region of India, which com- The northeastern comparing them with the description provided by Assam, Manipur' Megh- prises Arunachal Pradesh, Sirivanakarn (1977). The slides were later sent to and Tripura states, has alaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, the Smithsonian Institution' Washington, DC' and is l of 18 high- u rr"ry rich mosquito fauna where the identification was confirmed. worldwide (Khoshoo 1994). biodiversity locations Sirivanakarn (1977) described 58 species ofmos- prepared on the basis The checklist of mosquitoes, quitoes belonging to the subgents Lophoceraomyia carried out in north- of various mosquito surveys of th" g"tto. Culex from the Oriental region' Bar- 3 decades, includes eastern India during the last raud (1934) recorded 10 species of this subgenus and 93 culicines) in l2 130 species (37 anophelines from British India. Culex (Lophoceraomyia) quad- Mahanta 1994). Barraud g"n"tu (Malhotra and ripalpis originally was described by Leicester "many species await dis- (t9:+) stateO mosquito (fSO8) as Lophoceratomyia sylvestris Leicester number of new mosquito covery in India," and the from Kuala Lumpuq Malaysia. Later, Edwards in northeastern In- records gradually is increasing (1917) considered both sylvestris and quadripalpis (1995) recently described dia. Bhattacharyya et al. to be synonymous with barkerii (Theobald)' How- Aedes nigrostriatus (Barraud) the larva and pupa of ever, he later revalidated quadripalpis and listed peytonl Bram and Rat- from Assam. Further, Culex barkerii and sylvestri's as synonyms in the world reidi Mattingly, and Ar- tanarithikul, Heizmannia catalog (Edwards 1932). Sirivanakarn (1977) rea' joloensis (Ludlow) were reported from As- mig,eres soned that these steps were taken by Edwards be- al. 1998' 2OOO), which rum (Bhuttacharyya et cause the status of quadripalpis was more stable regional records. In constituted new country and and had been used more frequently than the other lst collections of Culex this note, we report the 2 names, viz., sylvestris and barkerii. Sirivanakarn (Edwards) in India, and of Culex quadripalpis (1977) reported this species to be widespread in Sri (Leicester) arrd IJ ranotaenia nov ob sc u' mammilift r Lanka, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singa- in the northeastern region of India. ra Banaud Dore. and Indonesia. This is the lst record of Cx' quadripalpis from India. MATERIALS AND METHODS collected in the field were Immature mosquitoes Cukx {l,ophoceraomyia) mammilifer (Leicester) isolated and reared to adults. The larval and pupal exuviae were numbered and associated with the Larvae of Cx. mammilifer were collected from adults. Male genitalia and antennae were dissected the same ground pool on the same date in the So- and mounted on glass slides in Hoyer's medium. raipung forest range of Assam as mentioned above. Slide-mounted genitalia of 2 males along with their were sent to the Smithsonian Institution' RESULTS AND DISCUSSION antennae where thev were confirmed as Cx. (Lophocera- Culex (Lophoceraomyia) quadripalpis (Edwards) omyia) mimmilifur. Orher mosquito species that ground pool w,ere Aedes In August 1998, larvae were collected from a emerged from the same Verrallina (Neo- shaded giound pool in an evergreen tropical rain (Diceromyia) nummatus Edwards' (Lophocera- forest arla (Soraipung forest ranle) of Asiam. This macleaya) rami (Barraud). Culex (Lophocera- is a large tiact oi ."i"r,r" foresi (about 500 km') ctmyia) macdonaldi Colless, Culex unidentified coverin! parts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts omyia) rubithoracis (Leicester), and I of Assa-m. Our collection was restricted to an area species of Culex (Lophoceraomyia). from located in Dibrugarh District (27'35'N, 95"41'E) at Barraud (1934) recorded Cx. mammilifer an elevation of 152 m above sea level. Three Sukna, Darjeeling District, West Bengal, from An- 13 l4 JounNer- or rnr AventcAN Moseurro CoNrnoL Assocranon VoL. 19. No. 1 daman Island, and from the Malabar Coast, India. edged.We expressour gratitudeto anonymous Although this mosquito is widespread throughout reviewers,whose comments and suggestionsim- Southeast Asia (Sirivanakarn 1977), it has not been proved the manuscript. recorded previously from northeastem India. REFERENCES CITED Uranotae nia (Pseudofic albia'S nov ob scura Barraud PJ. 1934. 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