Paraedes ostentatio ( Leicester, 1908 )

NATARAJAN, R., GOPALAKRISHNAN, S., SHRIRAM, A. N. & KUMAR, ASHWANI, 2024, Mosquitoes in crabholes: A hidden realm of culicid diversity in India, Zootaxa 5437 (3), pp. 397-412 : 405

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.5

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DOI

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scientific name

Paraedes ostentatio ( Leicester, 1908 )
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Distribution. Assam: Dibrugarh District—Soraipung, Golaghat District—Golaghat; Meghalaya: Tura District— Dibru Hills; Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram District—Kani forest. Non-mangrove.

Habitat dependence. Specific/semi-specific—Adults and larvae. Immature stages were collected, mainly in crabholes in stream margins, and also in some elephant footprints in shaded rainforests.

References. Rajavel et al. (2011); unpublished observations.

Leicester, G. F. (1908) The Culicidae of Malaya. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States, 3 (3), 18 - 261.

Rajavel, A. R., Natarajan, R., Vaidyanathan, K. & Jambulingam, P. (2011) Systematic list of the species added to the mosquito museum at the Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry, India. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 27 (1), 8 - 14. https: // doi. org / 10.2987 / 8756 - 971 X- 27.1.8

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Paraedes