Psorophora saeva Dyar and Knab, 1906
Female of Psorophora saeva (Photo: M. Laurito).
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Chaco
- Formosa
- Misiones
- Salta
Other distribution
Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
- genumaculata Cruz
In 1907, Cruz described Psorophora genumaculata, a species that had already been described as Psorophora saeva by Dyar & Knab (1906). In 1923, Dyar synonymized both of these names under Psorophora lineata (Von Humbold, 1819). The early literature on Argentina mosquitoes refers to saeva as either genumaculata or lineata. Del Ponte & Castro (1952) resurrected saeva as the correct name applicable to this species in Argentina, placed genumaculata in synonymy under it, and considered lineata as "nomen dubium". It was Stone (1967) who determined that lineata is distinct from saeva, and is distributed in Central and Northern South America, while saeva has a more southern range (Mitchell & Darsie, 1985).
Larva, pupa, and male unknown.
Larva, pupa, and male unknown.
- 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
- DEL PONTE, E., CASTRO, M. P. 1952. Las especies argentinas de Psorophora (Psorophora) (Dipt. Culic.). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 15: 211-230
- 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.
- 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.
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- STONE, A. 1967. Notes on Psorophora lineata (Humboldt) and P. saeva Dyar and Knab (Diptera, Culicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomología 12: 59-65.
- 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.
- 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.
