Mansonia titillans (Walker, 1848)
Female of Mansonia titillans (Photo: M. Laurito).
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- Misiones
- Salta
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela
- Sin registros/no records .
Belkin et al. (1970) suggested that Mansonia titillans populations in the northern and southern parts of its range may be different (Mitchell & Darsie, 1985).
Disease relations: Specimens of Mansonia titillans were reported naturally infected with the Saint Louis Encephalitis virus in Córdoba, Colombia (Hoyos-López et al., 2015). Western Equine Encephalitis virus has been isolated from specimens identified as Mansonia spp, in Santa Fe Province between 1982 and 1983 (Sabattini et al., 1998).
Disease relations: Specimens of Mansonia titillans were reported naturally infected with the Saint Louis Encephalitis virus in Córdoba, Colombia (Hoyos-López et al., 2015). Western Equine Encephalitis virus has been isolated from specimens identified as Mansonia spp, in Santa Fe Province between 1982 and 1983 (Sabattini et al., 1998).
Eggs are usually adhered to aquatic plants and larvae get air from them. Mansonia titillans have been collected with Coquillettidia juxtamansonia, Coquillettidia albicosta, Coquillettidia venezuelensis and Mansonia pseudotitillans sharing the same breeding places. Adults are large, aggressive biters and mostly zoophilic, but opportunistic in their preferences.
- DURET, J. P. 1951a. Contribución al conocimiento de la distribución geográfica de los culicidos argentinos (Diptera-Culicidae). Parte II. Revista de la Sanidad Militar Argentina 50: 64-72.
- 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.
- 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.
- RONDEROS, R. A., BACHMANN, A. O. 1963. Mansoniini Neotropicales. l. (Diptera-Culicidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 26: 57-65.
- GARCÍA, M., CASAL, O. H. 1965. Culicidae (Diptera) del Delta del Paraná II. Apuntes sistemáticos y biológicos. Delta Paraná 5 (8): 5-16.
- CARCAVALLO, R. U., MARTÍNEZ, A. 1968a. Entomoepidemiología de la República Argentina. Capítulo III. Fiebre amarilla, vectores y cadena epidemiológica. Commun. Cient. Jta. Invest. Cient. Fuerzas Arm. Arg. 13(1): 1-144.
- BELKIN, J. N., HEINEMANN, S. J., PAGE, W. A. 1970. Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae) XXI. The Culicidae of Jamaica. Contribution of the American Entomological Institute 6 (1): 1-458.
- HACK, W. H., TORALES, G. J., BAR, M. E., OSCHEROV, B. 1978. Observaciones etologícas sobre culícidos de Corrientes. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 37 (1-4): 137-151.
- 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.
- GARCÍA, J. J., CAMPOS, R. E., MACIÁ, A. 1994. Observaciones ecológicas sobre Mansonia indubitans y Ma. titillans (Diptera: Culicidae) y sus enemigos naturales en Punta Lara, Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 54 (1-4): 43-50.
- 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.
- TORRETTA, J. P., MULIERI, P. R., PATITUCCI, L. D., SANDER, V. A., RODRÍGUEZ, P. L., SCHWEIGMANN, N. 2006. Winter survival of immature instars of Mansonia indubitans Dyar & Shannon and Mansonia titillans Walker (Diptera: Culicidae), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 101 (6): 591-596.
- HOYOS-LÓPEZ, R., URIBE-SOTO, S., RÚA-URIBE, G., GALLEGO-GÓMEZ, J. C. 2015. Molecular identification of Saint Louis encephalitis virus genotype IV in Colombia. Memórias de Instituto Oswaldo Cruz doi: 10.1590/0074-02760280040.
- ROSSI, G. C. 2015. Annotated checklist, distribution, and taxonomic bibliography of the mosquitoes (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) of Argentina. Check List 11 (4): 1712.
