Classification > Subfamily
Culicinae
> Tribe
Mansoniini
> Genus
Coquillettidia
> Subgenus
Rhynchotaenia
Coquillettidia nigricans (Coquillett, 1904)
Female of Coquillettidia nigricans (Photo: M. Laurito).
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- Salta
Other distribution
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
- persephassa Dyar and Knab
"Knight & Stone (1977) questioned the occurrence of this species in Argentina or indeed in southern South America at all. Belkin et al. (1970) pointed out the ease with which the females of Coquillettidia nigricans can be confused with those of Coquillettidia venezuelensis and suggested that nigricans is confined to northern South America while venezuelensis is the widespread species on the continent." (Mitchell & Darsie, 1985).
Eggs usually adhered to aquatic plants and larvae get air from them. Adults are large, aggressive biters and mostly zoophilic, but opportunistic in their preferences.
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- 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., BRESSANELLO, M. 1952b. Revisión de las especies de "Taeniorahynchus (Rhynchotaenia)" (Dipt. Cul.). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 12 (3): 229-246.
- 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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- 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.
- VISINTÍN, A. M., LAURITO, M., STEIN, M., RAMÍREZ, P., MOLINA, G., LORENZO, P. R., ALMIRÓN, W. R. 2010. Two new mosquito species and six new provincial records in Argentina. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 26 (1): 91-94.
- ROSSI, G. C. 2015. Annotated checklist, distribution, and taxonomic bibliography of the mosquitoes (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) of Argentina. Check List 11 (4): 1712.
