Psorophora albipes (Theobald, 1907)
Female of Psorophora albipes, details of scutum and hindleg (Photo: M. Laurito).
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- Misiones
- Salta
- Santa Fe
- Tucumán
Other distribution
Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
- Sin registros/no records .
Not recorded from Argentina by Knight & Stone (1977).
Disease relations: The Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus was isolated in 1958/1959 from pools of Psorophora albipes in Colombia (Groot et al., 1959). The species has been potentially involved as vector of the Yellow Fever virus in Brazil (de Abreu et al. 2019).
Disease relations: The Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus was isolated in 1958/1959 from pools of Psorophora albipes in Colombia (Groot et al., 1959). The species has been potentially involved as vector of the Yellow Fever virus in Brazil (de Abreu et al. 2019).
- CERQUEIRA, N. L. 1939. Sobre Psorophora lutzi, albipes y forceps. Revista de Entomología. (Rio de Janeiro) 10 (1): 78-85.
- DURET, J. P. 1951b. Contribución al conocimiento de la distribución geográfica de los culicidos Argentinos. (Diptera-Culicidae). Parte III. Revista de la Sanidad Militar Argentina 50 (2): 211-117
- DURET, J. P. 1952. Nueva contribución al conocimiento de la distribución geográfica de los culicidos argentinos. Revista de la Sanidad Militar Argentina 51: 345-356.
- GROOT, H., KERR, J.A., SANMARTIN, C., VIDALES, H. 1959. Antibodies to yellow fever and other arthropod-borne viruses in human residents of San Vicente de Chucuri, Santander, Colombia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 8(2): 175–189.
- CASTRO, M., GARCÍA, M. 1959 (1960). Notas sobre Culicidae Argentinos (Diptera), p. 599-602. En: J. F. R. Bejarano, E. Del Ponte and R. N. Orfila (ed.), Primeras Jornadas Entomoepidemiológicas Argentinas 2, Buenos Aires.
- CASTRO, M., GARCÍA, M., BRESSANELLO, M. D. 1959 (1960). Diptera Culicidae Culicinae, p. 547-562. En: J. F. R. Bejarano, E. Del Ponte and R. N. Orfila (ed.), Primeras Jornadas Entomoepidemiológicas Argentinas 2, Buenos Aires.
- PROSEN, A. F., MARTÍNEZ, A., CARCAVALLO, R. U. 1960. La familia Culicidae (Diptera) en la ribera fluvial de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Anales del Instituto de Medicina Regional, Resistencia 5 (2):101-113.
- KNIGHT, K. L., STONE, A. 1977. A catalog of the mosquitoes of the world (Diptera: Culicidae), 2nd ed. Thomas Say Foundation, Entomological Society of American 6: 1-611.
- MITCHELL, C. J., DARSIE, R. F. JR. 1985. Mosquitoes of Argentina. Part II. Geographic distribution and bibliography (Diptera, Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics 17 (4): 279-362.
- MITCHELL, C. J., MONATH, P., SABATTINI, M. S., CROPP, T. B., DAFFNER, J. F., CALISHER, C. H., JAKOB, W. L., CHRISTENSEN, H. A. 1985b. Arbovirus investigations in Argentina, 1977-1980 II. Arthropod collections and virus isolations from argentine mosquitoes. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 34 (5): 945-955.
- CAMPOS, R. E., MACIÁ, A. 1998. Culicidae. Cap. 28. En Morrone, J. J. & Coscarón, S. (Eds.) Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos: Una pespectiva biotaxonómica. (pp. 291-303). La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Sur.
- ROSSI, G. C. 2015. Annotated checklist, distribution, and taxonomic bibliography of the mosquitoes (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) of Argentina. Check List 11 (4): 1712.
- CANO, M. E., MARTI, G. A., ALENCAR, J. A., FREITAS SILVA, S. O., MICIELI, M. V.I. 2022. Categorization by score of mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) related to yellow fever epizootics in Argentina. Journal of Medical Entomology 59 (5): 1766-1777.
