Species info
Classification > Subfamily Culicinae > Tribe Toxorhynchitini > Genus Toxorhynchites > Subgenus Lynchiella
Toxorhynchites bambusicola (Lutz and Neiva, 1913)
Toxorhynchites bambusicola (1) (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Toxorhynchites bambusicola (1) (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Toxorhynchites bambusicola (1) (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Toxorhynchites bambusicola (2) (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Toxorhynchites bambusicola (2) (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Toxorhynchites bambusicola (3) (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Toxorhynchites bambusicola (3) (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Female of Toxorhynchites bambusicola (Photo: Stein et al. 2018).
Female of Toxorhynchites bambusicola (Photo: Stein et al. 2018).
Guadua chacoensis, habitat of Toxorhynchites bambusicola (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Guadua chacoensis, habitat of Toxorhynchites bambusicola (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Guadua chacoensis internode, Toxorhynchites bambusicola breeding site (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Guadua chacoensis internode, Toxorhynchites bambusicola breeding site (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Aechmea distichantha, host plant of Toxorhynchites bambusicola (Photo: R. E. Campos)
Aechmea distichantha, host plant of Toxorhynchites bambusicola (Photo: R. E. Campos)
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
  • Argentina
    • Corrientes
    • Misiones
Other distribution
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
 
Synonyms
  • aldrichanus Bonne-Wepster and Bonne
Observations
Not reported from Argentina by Knight & Stone (1977) Mitchell and Darsie (1985).
Habitat and breeding sites
Larvae were collected from cane internodes and a bromeliad axil with larvae of Culex imitator, Toxorhynchites separatus and a species of Wyeomyia (Campos et al., 2011). Alvarez et al. (2024) collected immature stages from Aechmea distichantha in northeastern provinces of Argentina.
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References
  • GARCÍA, M., CASAL, O. H. 1968b. Siete especies de Culicidae (Diptera) nuevas para la entomofauna argentina. Physis, Buenos Aires 28 (76): 107-109.
  • GARCÍA, M., CASAL, O. H. 1968b. Siete especies de Culicidae (Diptera) nuevas para la entomofauna argentina. Physis, Buenos Aires 28 (76): 107-109.
  • 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.
  • CAMPOS, R. E., SPINELLI, G., MOGI, M. 2011. Culicidae and Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Nematocera) inhabiting phytotelmata in Iguazú National Park, Misiones province, subtropical Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 70 (1-2): 111-118.
  • CAMPOS, R. E. 2013. The aquatic communities inhabiting internodes of two sympatric bamboos in Argentinean subtropical forest. Journal of Insect Science 13 (93): 1-17.
  • ROSSI, G. C. 2015. Annotated checklist, distribution, and taxonomic bibliography of the mosquitoes (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) of Argentina. Check List 11 (4): 1712.
  • STEIN, M., ALVAREZ, C. N., ALONSO, A. N., BANGHER, D. N., WILLENER, J. A., CAMPOS, R. E. 2018. New records of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) found in phytotelmata in Northern Argentina. Zootaxa 4399 (1): 87-100.
  • ALVAREZ, C. N., CAMPOS, R. E., STEIN, M. 2024. Phytotelmata in native and exotic plants and their mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) assemblages: Diversity and first records of plant-mosquito associations in a subtropical region of Argentina. Ecología Austral 34: 496-511. https://doi.org/10.25260/EA.24.34.3.0.2373.
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